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Revisiting Edward D. Cope’s “The Relation of Animal Motion to Animal Evolution” (1878)
In 1878 evolutionary theoretician Edward D. Cope published an eight-page paper filled with prescient ideas that clearly anticipated theoretical...
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‘Pragmatics First’: Animal Communication and the Evolution of Language
Research on the evolution of language is often framed in terms of sharp discontinuities in syntax and semantics between animal communication systems...
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A case for animal reference: beyond functional reference and meaning attribution
Reference is a basic feature of human language. A much debated question in the scholarship on animal communication and language evolution is whether...
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Animal Citizenship
For as long as humans have been on the planet, their interactions with animals have been based on a continuous relationship – sometimes characterised...
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Regulation of Animal Research
The use of animals in several areas dates back to recorded and written history. Much of our knowledge in science, medicine, and our understanding of...
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Immanent Evolution
Questions of evolution are raised in both literary and biological theory. Biological transformism as a theory emerged at the turn of the nineteenth...
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Animal
The question remains controversial as to when the Anthropocene actually began: with the use of fire, with the Neolithic Revolution, or with...
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Fumbling Toward the Animal in “Animal Faith”
Padrón focuses our attention on the animality in SAF. He shows how the fact that we are descended from other animals with similar capacities is...
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Positive Wild Animal Welfare
With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state...
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Climate Change and Animal Ethics
Climate change entails consequences also for non-human animals (from now on just “animals”). Since the 1970s of the twentieth century, moral status...
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Climate Change and Animal Ethics
Climate change entails consequences also for non-human animals (from now on just “animals”). Since the 1970s of the twentieth century, moral status...
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The Animal as Ontological Strategy
This chapter is the first episode of a three-part essay that explores the concept of the animal as an ontological question. This essay delves deeply...
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Neo-Cartesianism and the expanded problem of animal suffering
Several well-known theodicies, whatever their merits, seem to make little sense of animal suffering. Here we argue that the problem of animal...
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The Political Salience of Animal Protection in the Netherlands (2012–2021) and Belgium (2010–2019): What do Dutch and Belgian Political Parties Pledge on Animal Welfare and Wildlife Conservation?
The Netherlands and Belgium are European Union (EU) states with a shared border and cultural similarities. Article 13 of the EU Treaty of Lisbon...
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Evolution and Communication
We propose an interpretation of processes of evolution that share an analogical structure with processes of communication in human beings regarding...
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Was evolution worth it?
The evolutionary process involved the suffering of quadrillions of sentient beings over millions of years. I argue that when we take this into...
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Language Evolution: Theories and Evidence
Evolution is a hard problem, and language evolution even more so. There is no easy algorithmic answer to the problem of how language evolved and...
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A Tragic Fairy Tale of Evolution: Zupančič, Zapffe, and Other Monsters
The dark side of the tale of evolution is that it is not aimed at the conservation and multiplication of life. It enfolds through destructions and...
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Cultural Evolution and the Evolution of Cultural Information
Cultural evolution is normally framed in informational terms. However, it is not clear whether this is an adequate way to model cultural evolutionary...
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Towards a Comparative Study of Animal Consciousness
In order to develop a true biological science of consciousness, we have to remove humans from the center of reference and develop a bottom-up...