Tactful animals

How the study of touch can inform the animal morality debate

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21591797
AutoresSusana Monsó (0000-0002-1450-8089, Unit of Ethics and Human-Animal Studies, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, autor correspondente), Birte Wrage (0000-0002-5007-8522, Unit of Ethics and Human-Animal Studies, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria)
Ano2021
Volume34
Fascículo1
Páginas1-27
Data de publicação2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09515089.2020.1859100
OpenAlexW3112889783
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas100

In this paper, we argue that scientists working on the animal morality debate have been operating with a narrow view of morality that prematurely limits the variety of moral practices that animals may be capable of. We show how this bias can be partially corrected by paying more attention to the touch behaviours of animals. We argue that a careful examination of the ways in which animals engage in and navigate touch interactions can shed new light on current debates on animal morality, like the study of consolation behaviour, while also revealing further forms that animal morality may take and that have been neglected so far, like capacities of tolerance or trust. This defence is structured as an analysis of the three main functions of touch: the discriminative function, the affiliative function, and the vigilance function

Animal behavior · Animal welfare · Biology · Consolation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Morality · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Philosophy · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology