Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals

This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics. Its goal is to expand discussions on animal ethics and neuroethics by weaving together different threads: philosophy of mind and animal minds, neuroscientific study of anima...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Johnson, L. Syd M. editor (editor), Fenton, Andrew. editor, Shriver, Adam. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2020.
Edición:1st ed. 2020.
Colección:Advances in Neuroethics,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Animal Neuroethics: What and Why?
  • PART I NEUROSCIENCE OF NONHUMAN MINDS
  • Chapter 2 Sentience and Consciousness as Bases for Attributing Interests and Moral Status: Considering the Evidence—and Speculating Slightly Beyond
  • Chapter 3 The Human Challenge in Understanding Animal Cognition
  • Chapter 4 Mental Capacities of Fishes
  • Chapter 5 Bovine Prospection, the Mesocorticolimbic Pathways, and Neuroethics: Is a Cow’s Future Like Ours?
  • Chapter 6 Speciesism and Human Supremacy in Animal Neuroscience
  • PART II NEUROETHICAL ISSUES AND NONHUMAN ANIMALS
  • Chapter 7 On Mitigating the Cruelty of Natural Selection Through Humane Genome Editing
  • Chapter 8 In Defense of Neural Disenhancement to Promote Animal Welfare
  • Chapter 9 The Four Cs of Modern (Neuro)ethology and Neuroethics: Cognition, Complexity, Conation and Culture
  • Chapter 10 Large Brains in Small Tanks: Intelligence and Social Complexity as an Ethical Issue for Captive Dolphins and Whales
  • Chapter 11 Animal Rights and Captivity in a Non-Ideal World
  • Chapter 12 Nonhuman, All Too Human: Towards Developing Policies for Ethical Chimera Research
  • Chapter 13 The Role of Neuroscience in Precise, Precautionary, and Probabilistic Accounts of Sentience
  • PART III NEUROETHICS AND NONHUMAN ANIMAL RESEARCH ETHICS
  • Chapter 14 A Threshold Standard for Regulating Invasive Nonhuman Primate Research in the Age of the Major Brain Projects
  • Chapter 15 The Right to Bodily Sovereignty and Its Importance to Mental and Physical Well-Being
  • Chapter 16 The Trouble with Animal Models in Brain Research
  • Chapter 17 Animal Models and the Search for Drug Treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury.