Social norms–rules governing which behaviours are deemed appropriate or inappropriate
within a given community–are typically taken to be uniquely human. Recently, this position …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

Norms permeate human life. Most of people's activities can be characterized by rules about
what is appropriate, allowed, required, or forbidden—rules that are crucial in making people …

From an early age, humans exhibit a tendency to identify, adopt, and enforce the norms of
their local communities. Norms are the social rules that mark out what is appropriate …

Social norms are commonly understood as rules that dictate which behaviors are
appropriate, permissible, or obligatory in different situations for members of a given …

Two important issues of recent discussion in the philosophy of biology and of the cognitive
sciences have been the ontological status of living, cognitive agents and whether cognition …

In this article, we develop and defend an account of the normative significance of nonhuman
animal agency. In particular, we examine how animals' agency interests impact upon the …

Philosophical attention to animals can be found in a wide range of texts throughout the
history of philosophy, including discussions of animal classification in Aristotle and Ibn Bâjja …

" A Better Ape explores the evolution of the moral mind from our ancestors with
chimpanzees, through the origins of our genus and our species, to the development of …

Human communities teem with a variety of social norms. In order to change unjust and
harmful social norms, it is crucial to identify the psychological processes that give rise to …