Why animals matter : animal consciousness, animal welfare, and human well-being /
Presents an urgent argument for the need to rethink animal welfare. In the vein of Temple Grandin's work, Dawkins explains that this welfare must be made to work in practice to have any effect, and cannot be tinged by anthropomorphism and claims of animal consciousness, which lack firm empiric...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- No room on the agenda
- Seduced by words
- The trouble with anthropomorphism
- Why consciousness is harder than you think
- Consciousness unexplained
- Emotional turmoil
- Animal welfare without consciousness
- The two pillars of animal welfare
- What animals want
- Animal welfare for a small planet.