Neuroethics and nonhuman animals / L. Syd M Johnson, Andrew Fenton, Adam Shriver, editors.
| Other author | Johnson, L. Syd M. |
| Other author | Fenton, Andrew. |
| Other author | Shriver, Adam J. (Adam Joseph), 1978- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cham : Springer, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource (314 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | Direct link to eBook |
| Subjects |
| Series | Advances in Neuroethics Ser Advances in neuroethics. ^A1420638 |
| Contents | Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction to Animal Neuroethics: What and Why? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What Is Animal Neuroethics? -- 1.3 Animal Neuroethics: The What and the Why -- 1.4 Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Part I: Neuroscience of Nonhuman Minds -- 2: Sentience and Consciousness as Bases for Attributing Interests and Moral Status: Considering the Evidence and Speculating S ... -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Methodological Assumptions |
| Contents | 2.3 Evidence of Sentience in Different Animal Classes -- 2.3.1 Mammals and Birds -- 2.3.2 Reptiles -- 2.3.3 Amphibians -- 2.3.4 Fish -- 2.3.5 Cephalopods -- 2.3.6 Arthropods -- 2.4 Conclusion: From Bees to Bots and Back -- References -- 3: The Human Challenge in Understanding Animal Cognition -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Definition of Cognition: One or Many Cognitions? -- 3.3 Ecological and Social Drivers of Cognition in Chimpanzees -- 3.3.1 Finding Food in Dense Forests Represents a Special Cognitive Challenge -- 3.3.2 Extracting Embedded Food -- 3.3.3 Hunting and Cooperation |
| Contents | 3.4 Are There Real Differences Between Captive and Wild Populations? -- 3.5 Human Bias and Ecological Validity -- 3.6 The Future of Animal Cognition Studies? -- References -- 4: Mental Capacities of Fishes -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Definition of Sentience -- 4.3 Do Fish Form Relationships? -- 4.4 Cognitive Ability and Neurodevelopment -- 4.4.1 Social Learning -- 4.4.2 Spatial Navigation -- 4.4.3 Numerical Skills -- 4.4.4 Decision-Making -- 4.5 Welfare and Capacities for Feeling: Pain, Fear, and Pleasure -- 4.5.1 Pain -- 4.5.2 Fear -- 4.5.3 Pleasure |
| Contents | 4.6 Individual Recognition, Self-Recognition, and Consciousness -- 4.7 Conclusions -- References -- 5: Bovine Prospection, the Mesocorticolimbic Pathways, and Neuroethics: Is a Cowś Future Like Ours? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Why Bovine Prospection Matters -- 5.3 Rights and Interests -- 5.4 What Is This Cow Planning? -- 5.5 Prospection: Some Definitions -- 5.6 Cow Behaviors -- 5.7 Hypothesis: Cows Have Intuitive Prospection -- 5.8 Bovine Prospection: Belief and Desire -- 5.9 Neural Correlates of Human Desire -- 5.10 Neural Correlates of Bovine Desire? -- 5.11 Neural Correlates of Human Belief |
| Contents | 5.12 Neural Correlates of Bovine Belief: What Do We Know? -- 5.13 Is a Cowś Prospection Like Ours? -- 5.14 Belief and Desire in Neotenic Complex Syndrome -- 5.15 Nonreporting Human Intuitive Prospection -- 5.16 Conclusion -- References -- 6: Speciesism and Human Supremacy in Animal Neuroscience -- 6.1 Introduction: Speciesism and Human Supremacy -- 6.2 Sentience and Comparative Neuroscience -- 6.3 Sentience: Pain and Suffering -- 6.4 The Evidence for Pain in Nonhuman Animals -- 6.4.1 Consider Fishes -- 6.4.2 Reconsidering Fishes -- 6.5 Domination and Oppression |
| Abstract | This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics. Its goal is to expand discussions on animal ethics and neuroethics by weaving together different threads: philosophy of mind and animal minds, neuroscientific study of animal minds, and animal ethics. Neuroethical questions concerning animals' moral status, animal minds and consciousness, animal pain, and the adequacy of animal models for neuropsychiatric disease have long been topics of debate in philosophy and ethics, and more recently also in neuroscientific research. The book presents a transdisciplinary blend of voices, underscoring different perspectives on the broad questions of how neuroscience can contribute to our understanding of nonhuman minds, and on debates over the moral status of nonhuman animals. All chapters were written by outstanding scholars in philosophy, neuroscience, animal behavior, biology, neuroethics, and bioethics, and cover a range of issues and species/taxa. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scientists and students interested in the debate on animal ethics, while also offering an important resource for future researchers. Chapter 13 is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. |
| General note | 6.6 Anthropomorphisms and Anthropocentrism |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Johnson, L. Syd M. Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals. Cham : Springer, ©2020 9783030310103 |
| ISBN | 9783030310110 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 3030310116 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1007/978-3-030-31011-0 |
| Stock number | com.springer.onix.9783030310110 Springer Nature |