1. Experiments on Animals, by Richard Ryder
27. Licklider kept animals awake by placing them in rotating
drums. Those animals which survived were highly irritable and
aggressive after thirty days without sleep. (Journal of
Comparative
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2. Humans, Nonhumans and Personhood, by Robert W. Mitchell
that some
animals can satisfy criteria for verbal communication, we can now
look for evidence of self-consciousness in these animals, with its
attendant sense of moral responsibility.
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3. Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?, by James Rachels
the question as to whether animals have rights. If they do,
... it would seem an illegitimate invasion of animal rights to
kill and eat them, if, as seems to be the case, we can sustain
ourselves
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4. The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals, by Marian Stamp Dawkins
symptom of suffering is an animal's state of physical health. If
an animal is injured or diseased, then there are very strong
grounds for suspecting that it is suffering. All guidebooks and
codes on
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5. Spirits Dressed in Furs?, by Adriaan Kortlandt
tripartite distinction: comparative anatomy studied the
structures; comparative physiology the functions; and comparative
psychology the minds of animals, including humans. This was the
heyday of
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6. A Critique of Kant, by Arthur Schopenhauer
and Wolff built up rational psychology out of abstract
concepts and constructed an immortal anima rationales, the
natural claims of the animal world obviously stood up against this
exclusive
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7. Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White...
races, women, children and animals. Western
philosophy continued this imperious attitude with the views of
Descartes, who proposed that animals were just like machines with
no significant language,
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8. Chimpanzees’ Use of Sign Language, by Roger S. Fouts & Deborah H. Fouts
ask where our conception of animal nature comes from. The
answer is that our conception of animal nature does not come from
the non-human animals themselves, but from our preconceived
concepts of human
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