An interdisciplinary group of scholars investigates the claim that humans are essentially normative animals. They do so by looking at the nature and relations o

It is often claimed that humans are rational, linguistic, cultural, or moral creatures. What these characterizations may all have in common is the more fundamen

This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and ev

The book also draws heavily on empirical research on consciousness and cognition in non-human animals as a way of approaching the question of which animals, if

This text is designed to capture the nature of the questions as they stand today and to propose solutions to many of the major problems in the ethics of how we