Tag: animals
Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity
The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other.
Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New
Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought.
Understatement: According to Current Zoo Director, Caging Man “Shouldn’t Have Happened”
Hammering home the lesson about “our own evolutionary history” was exactly the purpose behind displaying and humiliating an African man with monkeys.
For Rivers, a “Right to Flow”?
Most media with which I interact on this issue assume that advocating personhood for nature must be a fringe meme.
When Horses Sue
“Animal standing” would open the courts to lawsuits brought by animals.