Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers? Linking Animal Cognition, Animal Ethics and Animal Welfare

Judith Benz-Schwarzburg

ISBN 10: 9004358862 / ISBN 13: 9789004358867

Published by Brill, NL, 2019

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In Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers?, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg reveals the scope and relevance of cognitive kinship between humans and non-human animals. She presents a wide range of empirical studies on culture, language and theory of mind in animals and then leads us to ask why such complex socio-cognitive abilities in animals matter. Her focus is on ethical theory as well as on the practical ways in which we use animals. Are great apes maybe better described as non-human persons? Should we really use dolphins as entertainers or therapists? Benz-Schwarzburg demonstrates how much we know already about animals' capabilities and needs and how this knowledge should inform the ways in which we treat animals in captivity and in the wild.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers? Linking Animal Cognition, Animal Ethics and Animal Welfare
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004358862
• ISBN 13: 9789004358867
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.5W x 3.1H x 23.5D centimeters 15.5 centimeters width by 3.1 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 822 grams

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Synopsis

In Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers?, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg reveals the scope and relevance of cognitive kinship between humans and non-human animals. She presents a wide range of empirical studies on culture, language and theory of mind in animals and then leads us to ask why such complex socio-cognitive abilities in animals matter. Her focus is on ethical theory as well as on the practical ways in which we use animals. Are great apes maybe better described as non-human persons? Should we really use dolphins as entertainers or therapists? Benz-Schwarzburg demonstrates how much we know already about animals’ capabilities and needs and how this knowledge should inform the ways in which we treat animals in captivity and in the wild.

About the Author

Dr. Judith Benz-Schwarzburg is a Senior Researcher at the Messerli Research Institute, Vienna, who works and publishes at the intersection of animal cognition and animal ethics. She is currently leading a research group on animal morality.