PHILOSOPHY AND ANIMAL LIFE
Joe Cruz
Department of Philosophy
& Chair, Cognitive Science
Week One—Introduction to Minds and Morality
Dennett (1996) Chapters 1-3 from Kinds of Minds
Coetzee, J. M. (1999) The Lives of Animals
Week Two—Sentience and Animal Consciousness
Singer (1975) Chapters 1&2 from Animal Liberation
Singer (1999) Response to Coetzee
Griffin, D. (1978) Prospects for a Cognitive Ethology
Allen, C. and Bekoff, M. (1997) Chapter 9 from Species of Mind
Heinrich, B. (2002) Raven Consciousness
Week Three—Sentience and Animal Consciousness
Griffin, D. (1992) Chapter 1 from Animal Minds
Wynne, C. (2004) The Perils of Anthropomorphism
Carruthers, P. (1974) Brute Experience.
Varner, G. (2002) Chapter 2 from In Nature’s Interest: Interests Animal Rights, and Environmental
Ethics
DeGrazia, D. (2009) Self Awareness in Animals
Week Four—Self Consciousness (Mirror Test and Beyond)
Gallup, G., et al (2002) The Mirror Test
Reiss, D., and Marino, L. (2001) Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin: a case
of cognitive convergence.
Shumaker, R., and Swartz, K. (2002) When Traditional Methodologies Fail: Cognitive
Studies of Great Apes
De Veer, M., and Van Den Bos, R. (1999) A critical review of methodology and
interpretation of mirror self-recognition research in nonhuman primates
Zahavi, D. (2009) Is the Self a Social Construct?
Week Five—Animal Cognition: Beliefs and Concepts
Stich, S. (1979) Do Animals Have Beliefs?
Vauclair, J. (2009) Categorization and Conceptual Behavior in Nonhuman Primates
Povinelli, D., and Vonk, J. (2003) Chimpanzee minds: suspiciously human?
Hauser, M., et al (1996) Numerical representations in primates
Bermudez, J. (2003) Chapters 1&3 from Thinking Without Words
Jamieson, D. (2009) What do animals think?
Week Six—Animal Cognition: Language and Social Cognition
Brakke, K., and Savage-Rumbaugh, S. (1995) The development of language skills in
bonobo and chimpanzee—I. comprehension
Pinker., S. (1994) Chapter 11 from The Language Instinct
Pepperberg, I. (2006) Cognitive and communicative abilities of Grey parrots
Slobodchikoff, C. (2009) Cognition and Communication in Prairie Dogs
Cheney, D., and Seyfarth, R. (1997) Why Animals Don’t Have Language
Seyfarth, R., et al. (2005) Primate social cognition and the origins of language
Week Seven—Animal Rights
Regan, T. (1997) The Rights of Humans and Other Animals
Singer, P. (1980) Animals and the Value of Life
Posner, R. (2005) Animal Rights
Pollan, M. (2002) An Animal’s Place
Week Eight—Animal Rights
Fisher, J. (1992) Taking Sympathy Seriously: A Defense of Our Moral Psychology Toward
Animals
Korsgaard, C. (2004) Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals.
Diamond, C. (2004) Eating Meat and Eating People.
Nussbaum, M. (2006) The Moral Status of Animals.
Week Nine—Emotional Lives of Animals
de Sousa, R. (2013) Emotion (Stanford Encyclopedia Entry).
Dixon, B. (2001) Animal Emotions.
Dawkins, M. S. (2000) Animal Minds and Animal Emotions.
Preston, S. and de Waal, F. (2002) The Communication of Emotions and the Possibility of
Empathy in Animals.
Week Ten—Animal Experimentation
Dewey, J. (1926) The Ethics of Animal Experimentation
Green, M., ed. (2012) International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving
Animals. (Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences and The
International Council for Laboratory Animal Science.)
Cohen, C. (1984) The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research.
Brody, B. (2011) Defending Animal Research: An International Perspective.
Norcross, A. (2011) Animal Experimentation, Marginal Cases, and the Significance of
Suffering.
Regan, T. (xxxx) Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection.
Cohen, C. (2001) Why Animals Are Mistakenly Believed to Have Rights.
Week Eleven—Companion Animals and Domesticants
Mithen, S. (1999) The Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory of Human-Animal Interactions.
Gray, P. and Young, S. (2011) Human-Pet Dynamics in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Ajmone-Marsan, P. et al (2010) On the Origin of Cattle: How Aurochs Became Cattle
and Colonized the World.
Moutou, F. and Pastoret, P.-P. (2010) Graphical Distribution of Domestic Animals: A
Historical Perspective.
Mason, J. (1985) Brave New Farm?
Engel, M. (2000) The Immorality of Eating Meat.
Smil, V. (2002) Eating Meat: Evolution, Patterns, and Consequences.
Brown, M. (2010) Picky Eating is a Moral Failing.
Week Twelve—Ecology, Hunting, Zoos
Callicott, J. (1992) Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair.
Hargrove, E. (1992) Foundations of Wildlife Protection Attitudes.
Hens, K. (2009) Ethical Responsibilities Towards Dogs: An Inquiry into the Dog-Human
Relationship.
Cartmill, M. (1995) Hunting and Humanity in Western Thought.
Evans, R., et. al. (1998) Dogfighting: Symbolic Expression and Validation of Masculinity.
Jamieson, D. (2006) Against Zoos.