Cognitive kin, moral strangers? : : linking animal cognition, animal ethics & animal welfare /

Cognitive kin, moral strangers? : : linking animal cognition, animal ethics & animal welfare / / by Judith Benz-Schwarzburg ; translation prepared by Mark Kanak ; edited by Susana Monsó, Evan White, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg.

In Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers? , Judith Benz-Schwarzburg reveals the scope and relevance of cognitive kinship between humans and non-human animals. She presents a wide range of empirical studies on culture, language and theory of mind in animals and then leads us to ask why such complex socio-co...

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Superior document:Human-animal studies ; Volume 23
VerfasserIn:
Benz-Schwarzburg, Judith,
TeilnehmendeR:
Kanak, Mark,
Monsó, Susana,
White, Evan,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2020.
©2012
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
German
Series:Human-animal studies ; Volume 23.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Notes:"Originally published as Verwandte im Geiste - Fremde im Recht : sozio-kognitive Fähigkeiten bei Tieren und ihre Relevanz für Tierethik und Tierschutz. Copyright © 2012 by Harald Fischer Verlag GmbH, Erlangen"--Title page verso.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals as the Object of Science—and What Has Been Neglected Thus Far
  • Questions and Objectives of the Book
  • Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals
  • The Concept of Cognition and the Concept of Consciousness
  • Culture in Animals?
  • Language in Animals?
  • Theory of Mind in Animals?
  • Summary and Transition
  • The Relevance of Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals for Animal Ethics and Animal Welfare
  • Kinship and Responsibility: the Moral Status of Animals
  • Kinship and Responsibility: the Discrepancy between Ethical Demands and the Status Quo
  • Summary
  • Discussion
  • Cognitive Kinship and the Concept of an Evolutionary Self
  • A Comparison of Arguments
  • Possibilities of Modifying Personhood Rights for Animals
  • Alternative: Turn the Focus Back to the Suffering of Animals?
  • Final Evaluation of Personhood Rights for Animals
  • Back Matter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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