Sanctuaries, fake meat, animal rights, and new methods in medical testing and in animal cognition research. Are human opinions of animals changing, and if so is this just another swing of a pendulum? I talk to Eoin O'Carroll about human views on animals.
Philosophy professor Kristin Andrews thinks a lot about how animals think. TVO talked to her about why understanding dolphin babysitters, and whether rats have culture could enhance our multispecies world. Watch it here.
The last ten years has seen a huge development in research on consciousness in animal species that has until recently been overlooked—including reptiles, amphibians and insects—so Jonathan Birch, Jeff Sebo, and I thought it was time to ask whether there is a scientific consensus about the likelihood of consciousness in these species. We met with 39 scholars, including neuroscientists, animal cognition researchers, and philosophers, and hammered out this declaration. If you agree that there is strong evidence of consciousness in mammals and birds, and a realistic possibility of consciousness in fish, cephalopods, decapods, insects, amphibians, and reptiles, and you have an advanced degree or other expertise in this area, we invite you to join us by signing the declaration…
Kristin Andrews is Professor of Philosophy and York Research Chair in Animal Minds. She is the author of several books on animal mind, consciousness, sociality, morality, and methods in the science of animal mind studies.
