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Contents
The founders of ethology and the problem of animal subjective experience | 1 |
An essay on consciousness | 17 |
Conscientiousness and consciousness How to make up our minds about | 32 |
An essay on animal | 48 |
Discontinuity between animal and human | 62 |
The emotional vertebrate | 93 |
The myth of animal suffering | 125 |
Reflections on the organisation of mind brain and behaviour | 144 |
Choosing between hierarchy | 169 |
Animal ethics or the conscious control of the Umwelt | 185 |
Consciousness science and conscience | 198 |
A view of intrinsic value not based on animal consciousness | 223 |
Contributors | 245 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Animal Consciousness and Animal Ethics: Perspectives from the Netherlands Animals in philosophy and science, ISSN 1386-3975 |
| Editor | Marcel Dol |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Uitgeverij Van Gorcum, 1997 |
| ISBN | 9023232151, 9789023232155 |
| Length | 249 pages |
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