Overview
- First neuroethics book devoted exclusively to nonhuman animals
- This volume gathers a robustly transdisciplinary and interdiscliplinary group of authors from philosophy, neuroethics, animal studies, neuroscience, ethology, bioethics
- The book will contain divergent ethical perspectives, from experts in their respective fields, that promise to enrich debates concerning the scientific use of nonhuman animals. This adds to the book’s educational utility for students, who will be able to consider different viewpoints on controversial issues
Part of the book series: Advances in Neuroethics (AIN)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Neuroscience of Nonhuman Minds
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Front Matter
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Neuroethical Issues and Nonhuman Animals
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Front Matter
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Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animal Research Ethics
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About this book
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 animal minds, and animal ethics.
Neuroethical questions concerning animals’ moral status, animal minds and consciousness, animal pain, and the adequacy of animal models for neuropsychiatric disease have long been topics of debate in philosophy and ethics, and more recently also in neuroscientific research. The book presents a transdisciplinary blend of voices, underscoring different perspectives on the broad questions of how neuroscience can contribute to our understanding of nonhuman minds, and on debates over the moral status of nonhuman animals. All chapters were written by outstanding scholars in philosophy, neuroscience, animal behavior, biology, neuroethics, and bioethics, and cover a range of issues and species/taxa.
Given its scope, the book will appeal to scientists and students interested in the debate on animal ethics, while also offering an important resource for future researchers.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andrew Fenton, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. He has numerous journal articles on animal neuroethics and animal research ethics, as well as chapters in books such as The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics and The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. He coordinates the interdisciplinary and transinstitutional Halifax Animal Studies Group in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Adam Shriver is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. He has published articles at the intersection of animal ethics and the neurosciences in journals such as Philosophical Psychology, Neuroethics, The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Adam co-organized a pre-conference workshop on Animals and Neuroethics for the 2009 Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, organized a 2016 workshop on Animal Research Neuroethics at the University of Pennsylvania with funding from the Alternatives Research Development Foundation, and is editing a special issue on bioethics of the International Laboratory Animal Research journal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals
Editors: L. Syd M Johnson, Andrew Fenton, Adam Shriver
Series Title: Advances in Neuroethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31011-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31010-3Published: 07 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31013-4Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31011-0Published: 06 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2522-5677
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5685
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 310
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurology, Philosophy of Mind, Research Ethics, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics