The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

Do any nonhuman animals have hedonically valenced experiences not directly caused by
stimuli in their current environment? Do they, like us humans, experience anticipated or …

Philosophical attention to animals can be found in a wide range of texts throughout the
history of philosophy, including discussions of animal classification in Aristotle and Ibn Bâjja …

This paper considers the question of whether chimpanzees possess at least a primitive
sense of normativity: ie, some ability to internalize and enforce social norms—rules …

Comparative psychology, the multidisciplinary study of animal behavior and psychology,
confronts the challenge of how to study animals we find cute and easy to anthropomorphize …

Behavioural flexibility is often treated as the gold standard of evidence for more
sophisticated or complex forms of animal cognition, such as planning, metacognition and …

Intensive animal agriculture wrongs many, many animals. Philosophers have argued, on this
basis, that most people in wealthy Western contexts are morally obligated to avoid animal …

Insect sampling for the purpose of measuring biodiversity–as well as entomological
research more generally–largely assumes that insects lack consciousness. Here, we briefly …

Despite wide recognition that speculation is critical for successful science, philosophers
have attended little to it. When they have, speculation has been characterized in narrowly …

After more than a century in which social learning was blackboxed by evolutionary
biologists, psychologists and economists, there is now a thriving industry in cognitive …