Animal Consciousness and Animal Ethics: Perspectives from the Netherlands
Cognitive ethology and the treatment of non-human animals: How matters of mind inform matters of welfare
Anthropocentric claims about the ways in which non-human animals (hereafter animals) interact in their social and non-social worlds are often used to influence decisions on how animals can or should be used by humans in various sorts of activities. Thus, the treatment of individuals is often tightly linked to how they are perceived with respect […]
A neuropsychological and evolutionary approach to animal consciousness and animal suffering
This paper will try to answer the question of whether animals can suffer. My aim is, firstly, to discuss whether or not an irreflexive animal consciousness could experience suffering. I do this because there are authors who assume such a consciousness in animals. The second part of this contribution concerns the question of the cognitive […]