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

by Judith Benz-Schwarzburg

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004358862
• ISBN13: 9789004358867
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"