Search Results for: Animal Minds And Human Morals

"They don't have syntax, so we can eat them." According to Richard Sorabji, this conclusion attributed to the Stoic philosophers was based on Aristotle's argume

Animals can't construct sentences. Therefore we can eat them. That was the view the Stoics eventually settled for, though they began with Aristotle's much broad

While philosophers have been interested in animals since ancient times, in the last few decades the subject of animal minds has emerged as a major topic in phil

From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take fo

A Harvard scientist illuminates the biological basis for human morality in this groundbreaking book. With the diversity of moral attitudes found across cultures