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Doing the Right Thing: An Interview With Stevan Harnad
No full textTwelve years after stepping down from the editorship of BBS I have accepted an invitation from the Humane Society of the United States to serve as editor in chief of Animal Sentience, a new journal just about to be launched that is devoted to understanding and protecting the feelings of other species. I hope the findings reported in this journal will help inspire us to “do the right thing to the right kind of thing” so that we can at last put an end to the greatest moral shame of our own species – and the greatest agony of all the others
Fair play and its connection with social tolerance, reciprocity and the ethology of peace
Full text linkThe concept of peace, with its corollary of behaviours, strategies and social implications, is commonly
believed as a uniquely human feature. Through a comparative approach, we show how social
play in animals may have paved the way for the emergence of peace. By playing fairly, human and
nonhuman animals learn to manage their social dynamics in a more relaxed and tolerant way that
results in a more effective management of conflicts. We show that play promotes tolerance, cooperation,
fairness and reciprocity, which are essential elements of the so-called positive peace. This
kind of peace is reached through an evolving process in which individuals continually modify social
relationships to attain peaceful coexistence. In conclusion, we assume that the concept of peace
has deep biological roots that constitute the basis for more sophisticated cultural constructions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Should Scientists Bond with the Animals Whom They Use? Why Not?
Full text linkThe Inevitable Bond (Davis & Balfour, 1992; Davis, 1993) is a useful and well-edited collection of original essays. Davis and Balfour's introductory remarks and the brief summaries they provide before each chapter are helpful for keeping the central theme — scientist-cuiimal interactions — in focus. They and their contributors have produced a volume that is long overdue, one that forces scientists to come to terms with how they interact with the nonhuman animals (hereafter animals) they study, and why they interact in the ways they do. For some scientists this is a topic about which they would rather think than talk, but the many issues that need to be considered in studies of scientist-animal bonds will not disappear if they are ignored. And now they can no longer be ignored; The Inevitable Bond brings the issues to the table for much needed open discourse
The political subjectivity of animals
No full textAlthough nonhuman animals are the objects of legislation governing their
welfare, they seem prima facie to lack political subjectivity, which is to say that they do not seem to be agents who can represent themselves politically. Thus, it would seem that humans must speak on behalf of nonhuman animals, representing them in the exclusively human political domain
Play: Humans, Animals, and Laughter
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Political rights of animals
No full textAlthough nonhuman animals are the objects of legislation governing their welfare, they seem prima facie to lack political subjectivity, which is to say that they do not seem to be agents who can represent themselves politically. Thus, it would seem that humans must speak on behalf of nonhuman animals, representing them in the exclusively human political domain
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