Reading and Media Resources: Science and Sentience

Representative of a number of books by the same author regarding the emotional lives of animals as recounted through stories and observations.

Using concepts from moral and political philosophy, argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals, including, potentially, genetic engineering.

Extends the consideration of scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds to animals commonly raised for food. Combines a review of the latest science with accounts of personal experience...

Although best known for Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, Darwin’s relevance to the topic of sentience in animals is perhaps best set forth in this work, where he analyzes the parallels in the...

A multidisciplinary collection of essays by scholars and those working with animals considering the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand...

Examines the available science of cognition regarding various species in order to explore the legal and policy question of who is entitled to rights under the law

Bestselling observational reporting of animal behavior, along with reportage on neurological discoveries. Emphasizes the similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness...

Linking details of evolutionary biology to broader philosophical debates about the nature and function of consciousness through an exploration of the sentience and extraordinary behaviors of octopus...

In countering scientific skepticism about anthropomorphism, an anthropologist focuses on a single animal emotion, grief, and supports her contentions regarding its existence and depth through...

Explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species and posits that the social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for...