Tag Archives: sentience
My lectures at the Minding Animals Conference
From Wednesday July 4 to Friday July 6 the second Minding Animals Conference will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, hosted by the Ethics Institute and Faculty of Veterinary Science at Utrecht University. Recently the two abstracts that I submitted … Continue reading
New blog on veganism
A few weeks ago I have made a new blog, especially dedicated to veganism. I have been a vegan since I was 17. At that time I was already a vegetarian and feared I could never be vegan, because I … Continue reading
Marc Bekoff in The Netherlands
On Saturday April 2 and Sunday April 3 Marc Bekoff was in The Netherlands for a seminar. The ethologist Marc Bekoff is a former professor of Ecology en Evolutionairy Biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder and he has … Continue reading
Filed under Animal Communication, Animal Consciousness, Animal Ethics, General
My work cited in an article that advocates neuroscientific research with great apes
I am busy making a separate page on my blog to discuss how my work with the signing apes has been cited and quoted in publications by others. The first article of that page I discuss here in this post. … Continue reading
My articles on Animal Consciousness now online
Yesterday I scanned all my publications about animal consciousness and uploaded them to my profile on Academia.edu. In the 1990s I published several articles on the subject together with my brother Titus Rivas. In these articles we advocate the analogy … Continue reading
Filed under Animal Consciousness, General, Publications
My chapter on Animal Ethics now online
In 1997 I edited a book about animal consciousness and animal ethics, together with my co-editors Marcel Dol, Kasanmoentalib, Susanne Lijmbach and Ruud van den Bos. We gave it the title Animal consciousness and animal ethics. Perspectives from the Netherlands, … Continue reading
