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Raising Consciousness About Chicken Consciousness, Bernard Rollin Jan 2017

Raising Consciousness About Chicken Consciousness, Bernard Rollin

Animal Sentience

The topics explored by Marino are definitive, and should work well to lay to rest forever the widespread belief that chickens have no personality, are unintelligent, or in any other way lack a mental life.


Chickens’ Brains, Like Ours, Are Lateralized, Lesley J. Rogers Jan 2017

Chickens’ Brains, Like Ours, Are Lateralized, Lesley J. Rogers

Animal Sentience

This commentary draws attention to yet another attribute that has been instrumental in demonstrating the cognitive abilities of domestic chicks: lateralization of brain function. The discovery of lateralization in domestic chicks was part of the first evidence showing that humans are not unique in this respect. The effects on cognitive ability of sensory stimulation in critical stages of development have implications for the welfare of chicks, as well as other species.


Are Chicken Minds Special?, Rafael Freire, Susan J. Hazel Jan 2017

Are Chicken Minds Special?, Rafael Freire, Susan J. Hazel

Animal Sentience

The number of publications on chicken cognition and emotion exceeds that on most birds and is comparable to the number of publications on some more “advanced” mammals. We argue that the chicken is an excellent model for this type of research because of (1) the presence of well-established fundamental mental processes in the chicken, (2) a challenging ethological environment and (3) social pressures that may have facilitated the evolution of cognitive abilities similar to those of some mammals. Marino’s (2017) review provides an excellent foundation for the continued study of complex mental abilities in this species.


Chicken Of The Sea, Jonathan Balcombe Jan 2017

Chicken Of The Sea, Jonathan Balcombe

Animal Sentience

Marino summarizes research showing that chickens perform cognitively and emotionally at a higher level than previously assumed. Here, I describe capacities of teleost fishes that parallel those of chickens, including the ability to recognize human faces, perspective-taking, and referential communication. Research on chickens and on fishes reveals an emerging trend in cognitive ethology: abilities once thought limited to a scant few highly intelligent non-humans may actually occur broadly across taxa.


In Memory Of Patrick Bateson, James A. Serpell Jan 2017

In Memory Of Patrick Bateson, James A. Serpell

Animal Sentience

No abstract provided.


Chickening Out Of Change: Will Knowing More About Thinking Chickens Change Public Perceptions?, Ewan Bottomley, Steve Loughnan Jan 2017

Chickening Out Of Change: Will Knowing More About Thinking Chickens Change Public Perceptions?, Ewan Bottomley, Steve Loughnan

Animal Sentience

This commentary examines the next step in Marino’s target article – changing people’s attitudes and beliefs about chickens. The scientific case seems clear: chickens are far more complex, psychologically and socially, than originally thought. Marino suggests we use this information to make people feel uncomfortable about their dietary choices in the hope of changing them. We review the psychological literature, examining how people maintain meat consumption despite the clash with their moral beliefs (the “meat paradox”). This work highlights the important gap between what science knows about animals and what people think about animals.


Evolutionary Continuity, Anne Benvenuti Jan 2017

Evolutionary Continuity, Anne Benvenuti

Animal Sentience

The principle of evolutionary continuity states that all animal capacities and behaviors exist — with variations in degree — in continuity with other species. Rather than assuming discontinuity, we should ask why any behavior observed in humans would not be found in at least some other sentient animals under similar conditions. In the case of suicide, the more pertinent issue might be the ethical one: our human responsibility for creating conditions under which other animals might deliberately seek to end their own lives.


What Is The Pressing “Animal Question” About? Thinking/Feeling Capacity Or Exploitability?, Gordon Hodson Jan 2017

What Is The Pressing “Animal Question” About? Thinking/Feeling Capacity Or Exploitability?, Gordon Hodson

Animal Sentience

Marino’s timely review highlights what humans go to great lengths to ignore and suppress: non-human animals such as chickens have rich inner lives. Although I share her belief that such evidence should provide the impetus for ending the exploitation of chickens, the psychological literatures on motivated reasoning and group-based dominance suggest not only that this is unlikely but that people will push back precisely because of the implications (as they do for climate change). Human psychology has done a great deal to suppress the recognition of sentience in animals, but it can also shed insights into ending exploitation.


Non-Human Animal Suicide Could Be Tested, David Lester Jan 2017

Non-Human Animal Suicide Could Be Tested, David Lester

Animal Sentience

Schaefer (1967) showed that mice can discriminate live from dead mice and lethal from nonlethal environments, and that they avoid a lethal environment; but the experiment lacked some controls. This might be a way to test whether mice would ever choose a lethal environment. Humans may also choose a potentially lethal environment unconsciously.


Understanding Animal Suicide And Death Can Lead To Better End-Of-Life Care, Jessica Pierce Jan 2017

Understanding Animal Suicide And Death Can Lead To Better End-Of-Life Care, Jessica Pierce

Animal Sentience

Peña-Guzmán’s target article on animal suicide will help inform end-of-life care for animals by emphasizing the need for a broad research focus on animal thanatology. Greater scientific understanding of the continuum of death-related awareness, experiences, and behaviors will help us improve veterinary care for animals at the end of life.


Complicated Grief, Teya Brooks Pribac Jan 2017

Complicated Grief, Teya Brooks Pribac

Animal Sentience

My commentary discusses complicated grief and the ensuing sense of helplessness that may lead to suicide. I close with a story about a pygmy pig.


Can Nonhuman Animals Commit Suicide?, David M. Peña-Guzmán Jan 2017

Can Nonhuman Animals Commit Suicide?, David M. Peña-Guzmán

Animal Sentience

Many people believe that only humans have the cognitive and behavioral capacities needed for suicidal behavior, such as reflexive subjectivity, free will, intentionality, or awareness of death. Three counterarguments — based on (i) negative emotions and psychopathologies among nonhuman animals, (ii) the nature of self-destructive behavior, and (iii) the problem of model fidelity in suicide research — suggest that self-destructive and self-injurious behaviors among human and nonhuman animals vary along a continuum.


Tribute To Jaak Panksepp, Jonathan Balcombe Jan 2017

Tribute To Jaak Panksepp, Jonathan Balcombe

Animal Sentience

No abstract provided.


Animal Ethics And Animal Consciousness, Bernard E. Rollin Jan 2017

Animal Ethics And Animal Consciousness, Bernard E. Rollin

Ethics and Animal Welfare Collection

Commentary on Marino and Allen (2017) The Psychology of Cows


Forty-Second Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, 2017-2018, University Of Minnesota - Morris. Philosophy Department Jan 2017

Forty-Second Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, 2017-2018, University Of Minnesota - Morris. Philosophy Department

Midwest Philosophy Colloquium

Programs for the forty-second Midwest Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Minnesota Morris in 2017-2018.


An Introduction To Positive Sum Design, Ian Gonsher Jan 2017

An Introduction To Positive Sum Design, Ian Gonsher

Articles

No abstract provided.


Daniel De Andrade Reflection 1, Daniel De Andrade Jan 2017

Daniel De Andrade Reflection 1, Daniel De Andrade

Borders in Play Reflections

No abstract provided.


Eduardo Vargas Culture Quilt, Eduardo Ezequiel Vargas Jan 2017

Eduardo Vargas Culture Quilt, Eduardo Ezequiel Vargas

Borders in Play Culture Quilts

No abstract provided.


Daniel De Andrade Reflection 2, Daniel De Andrade Jan 2017

Daniel De Andrade Reflection 2, Daniel De Andrade

Borders in Play Reflections

No abstract provided.


Grace Pilz Reflection 3, Grace Pilz Jan 2017

Grace Pilz Reflection 3, Grace Pilz

Borders in Play Reflections

No abstract provided.


Claire Oxford Lesson Plan 2, Claire Oxford, Eric Thornton Jan 2017

Claire Oxford Lesson Plan 2, Claire Oxford, Eric Thornton

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

No abstract provided.


Grace Pilz Reflection 2, Grace Pilz Jan 2017

Grace Pilz Reflection 2, Grace Pilz

Borders in Play Reflections

No abstract provided.


Scout Crowell Lesson Plan 4, Scout Crowell, Kat Ridley, Sabrina Serrano Jan 2017

Scout Crowell Lesson Plan 4, Scout Crowell, Kat Ridley, Sabrina Serrano

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

No abstract provided.


Samuel Canseco Lesson Plan 1, Samuel Canseco, Eduardo Vargas Jan 2017

Samuel Canseco Lesson Plan 1, Samuel Canseco, Eduardo Vargas

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

No abstract provided.


Span 380: Cultural Productions Of The Borderlands, Clara Roman-Odio Jan 2017

Span 380: Cultural Productions Of The Borderlands, Clara Roman-Odio

Borders in Play Syllabus

No abstract provided.


Claire Oxford Lesson Plan 4, Claire Oxford, Eric Thornton Jan 2017

Claire Oxford Lesson Plan 4, Claire Oxford, Eric Thornton

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

No abstract provided.


Scout Crowell Lesson Plan 2, Scout Crowell, Kat Ridley, Sabrina Serrano Jan 2017

Scout Crowell Lesson Plan 2, Scout Crowell, Kat Ridley, Sabrina Serrano

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

No abstract provided.


Nate Novak Lesson Plan 3, Nate Novak, Isabella Bird-Muñoz Jan 2017

Nate Novak Lesson Plan 3, Nate Novak, Isabella Bird-Muñoz

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

No abstract provided.


Grace Pilz Culture Quilt, Grace Pilz Jan 2017

Grace Pilz Culture Quilt, Grace Pilz

Borders in Play Culture Quilts

No abstract provided.


Samuel Canseco Reflection 2, Samuel Canseco Jan 2017

Samuel Canseco Reflection 2, Samuel Canseco

Borders in Play Reflections

No abstract provided.