Must We Love Non‐Human Animals?

Love among Animals

Episodic Memory in Nonhuman Animals

Episodic memories differ from other types of memory because they represent aspects of the past not present in other memories, such as the time, place, or social context in which the memories were formed. Focus on phenomenal experience in human memory, such as the sense of 'having been there', has resulted in conceptualizations of episodic memory that are difficult or impossible to apply to nonh...

We must--and we can--do better.

The Moral Consideration of Nonhuman Animals: How Can We Identify Which Beings Are Conscious?1

A variety of ethical positions consider that the ability of an individual to be aware of what befalls him or her —in a more o less complex manner— is the indispensable attribute for that being to be per se morally considered. Nowadays, nevertheless, we lack a direct method to identify the ability of an individual to be conscious and, therefore, to corroborate the belief that certain beings —man...

Must we fear adolescent sexuality?

Editor's Note There is a general fear and anxiety surrounding adolescent sexuality. The question is why? Must we fear adolescent sexuality? This question, the title of the following article, is one that Amy Schalet, PhD, has spent the past decade investigating. It has culminated in a masterful doctoral thesis and a book to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. More specifical...