I sketch briefly some of the more influential theories concerned with the moral status of
nonhuman animals, highlighting their biological/physiological aspects. I then survey the …

" Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling
analyses of the tension between the'social model'of disability and the material details of …

SUMMARY In this chapter, Tobin Siebers critiques the ideology of ability that entails a
preference for ablebodiedness and defines humanness by bodily measures. This ideology …

The book is intended as a reader-friendly introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind,
including mental–physical causal interaction, computational models of thought, the relation …

Few areas have witnessed the type of growth we have seen in the affective sciences in the
past decades. Across psychology, philosophy, economics, and neuroscience, there has …

Self-conscious emotions, such as shame and guilt, play a fundamental role in regulating
moral behaviour and in promoting the welfare of society. Despite their relevance, the neural …

This article compares the three frameworks for theories of consciousness that are taken most
seriously by neuroscientists: the view that consciousness is a biological state of the brain …

We offer an account of empathetic pain that preserves the distinctions among standard pain,
contagious pain, empathetic pain, sympathy for pain, and standard pain ascription. Vicarious …

In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be
encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrong doing, or a method of healing …

The unpleasantness of pain motivates action. Hence many philosophers have doubted that
it can be accounted for purely in terms of pain's possession of indicative representational …