Animals

Animal intelligence, experience, and emotion

• Allen, Colin. Animal Cognition, from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
   
• Browne, Derek. "Carruthers on the Deficits of Animals". Psyche. A lengthy review of Peter Carruther's The Animals Question, Cambridge University Press (1992).
   
• Charlton, Bruce.  "Evolution and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Awareness, Consciousness, and Language."  Charlton is a psychologist at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
  
  "A Universal Declaration on Animal Sentience: No Pretending." Column in Psychology Today discussing the facts that scientists have long known that "we have had ample data for a long time to declare animals are sentient beings."
  
  
• Scottish researchers claim to have shown that dolphins are named by their pods and respond to their names.
   
• Fellows, Roger. "Animal Belief."  Paeida Project Online.
   
• An elephant painting a self-portrait (I knew it seems unlikely, but . . .)
   
• Scientific American debate on "Can Animals Empathize?"  Con by Daniel J. Povinelli.  Pro by George Gallup, Jr. [available only as a Microsoft Word document]

Other Philosophical Essays

• Institute for Critical Animal Studies.  Essays and information on Animal Liberation, run by philosopher Stephen Best.
   
• Holton, Richard and Rae Langton. "Empathy and Animal Ethics."  In Dale Jamieson (ed.) Singer and His Critics  Blackwell (1998). [pdf]
  
  
• LaFollette, Hugh. "Animal Rights and Human Wrongs," N. Dower (ed.), Ethics and the Environment. Gower Press (1989). [pdf]
   
• LaFollette, Hugh and Shanks, Niall.  "Animal Experimentation: the Legacy of Claude Bernard."  British Journal for the Philosophy of Science."
  
  
• LaFollette, Hugh and Shanks, Niall.  "On the Origin of Speciesism." Philosophy (1996). [pdf]
   
• LaFollette, Hugh and Shanks, Niall. "Util-izing Animals."  Journal of Applied Philosophy (1995). [pdf]
   
• Philosophical essays on animal  rights.  Nice collections of original essays by some of the leaders of the movement, including Peter Singer, Tom Regan.  Nice resource.
   
• Rachels, James.  "Why Darwinians Should Support Equal Treatment for Other Great Apes."  In The Great Ape Project.
   
• Rachels, James.  "Vegetarianism and the 'Other Weight Problem."  From World Hunger and Moral Obligation, W. Aiken and H. LaFollette (eds.)  Prentice-Hall, 1976. [pdf]
   
• Varner, Gary.  "Animal Rights v. Animal Welfare."  Varner, of Texas A&M, offers this on-line lecture explaining the debate between those who advocate animal rights and those who think we should only be concerned to protect their welfare.
  
  
  

Popular discussions of the treatment of animals

• Americans, Europeans, and Japanese for Medical Advancement.  A group of physicians and others who are opposed to biomedical experimentation using animals.
  
  
• Animals and Society Institute
   
• Christian Vegetarian Association.  Group that holds that Christians should be vegetarians.
   
• Human-animal relationships.  From the University of Montatna.
   
• legal status of animals at Rutgers Law School
   
• The other white meat.  An expose on pig farming (from Rolling Stone).
   
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. (advocacy group)
   
• Religion and vegetarianism.
   
• Vegetarianism.  A statement by the American Dietetic Association. 
  
  
• Vegetarianism (and Veganism) and empathy.  Discsusion of a study which suggests vegetarians and vegans are more empathetic toward animals and humans.  This discussion includes a link to the original research.
   
• Vegetarianism and Global Warming.  Researchers claim that going vegetarian does more to reduce global warming than buying a hybrid car.
  
  

• Two hour debate on animal experimentation.  The UCLA debate featured scientists and philosophers on both sides of the issue.