Animal Ethics and Animal Consciousness

Animal Consciousness: What Matters

x\.RE animals conscious? The way we are? Which species, and why? What is it like to be a bat, a rat, a vulture, a whale? But perhaps we really do not want to know the answers to these questions. We should not despise the desire to be kept in ignorance—are there not many facts about yourself and your loved ones that you would wisely choose not to know? Speaking for myself, I am sure that I would...

Cognitive Neuroscience and Animal Consciousness

The problem of animal consciousness has profound implications on our concept of nature and of our place in the natural world. In philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience the problem of animal consciousness raises two main questions (Velmans, 2007): the distribution question (“are there conscious animals beside humans?”) and the phenomenological question (“what is it like to be a non-human ...

Ethics of animal use

69 “ethics of animal use” by Peter Sandøe and Stine Christiansen of the University of Copenhagen is one of the first books directly designed to be used as a textbook to teach animal ethics in veterinary and animal science courses at university level. the authors have also prepared an internet based learning tool called “Animal ethics Dilemma”, accessible free of charge at http:// ae.imcode.com/...

Arguments about Animal Ethics

Ethics, Morality and Animal Biotechnology