Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals

L. Syd M Johnson, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University. She is a member of the Neuroethics Division of the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative, co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics, and co-founder of the Animal Bioethics Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities.Andrew Fenton, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. He has numerous journal articles on animal neuroethics and animal research ethics, as well as chapters in books such as The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics and The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. He coordinates the interdisciplinary and transinstitutional Halifax Animal Studies Group in Halifax, Nova Scotia.Adam Shriver is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford.  He  has published articles at the intersection of animal ethics and the neurosciences in journals such as Philosophical Psychology, Neuroethics, The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Adam co-organized a pre-conference workshop on Animals and Neuroethics for the 2009 Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, organized a 2016 workshop on Animal Research Neuroethics at the University of Pennsylvania with funding from the Alternatives Research Development Foundation, and is editing a special issue on bioethics of the International Laboratory Animal Research journal.

• Chapter 1 Introduction to Animal Neuroethics: What and Why?.- PART I NEUROSCIENCE OF NONHUMAN MINDS.- Chapter 2 Sentience and Consciousness as Bases for Attributing Interests and Moral Status: Considering the Evidence—and Speculating Slightly Beyond.- Chapter 3 The Human Challenge in Understanding Animal Cognition.- Chapter 4 Mental Capacities of Fishes.- Chapter 5 Bovine Prospection, the Mesocorticolimbic Pathways, and Neuroethics: Is a Cow’s Future Like Ours?.- Chapter 6 Speciesism and Human Supremacy in Animal Neuroscience.- PART II NEUROETHICAL ISSUES AND NONHUMAN ANIMALS.- Chapter 7 On Mitigating the Cruelty of Natural Selection Through Humane Genome Editing.- Chapter 8 In Defense of Neural Disenhancement to Promote Animal Welfare.- Chapter 9 The Four Cs of Modern (Neuro)ethology and Neuroethics: Cognition, Complexity, Conation and Culture.- Chapter 10 Large Brains in Small Tanks: Intelligence and Social Complexity as anEthical Issue for Captive Dolphins and Whales.- Chapter 11 Animal Rights and Captivity in a Non-Ideal World.- Chapter 12 Nonhuman, All Too Human: Towards Developing Policies for Ethical Chimera Research.- Chapter 13 The Role of Neuroscience in Precise, Precautionary, and Probabilistic Accounts of Sentience.- PART III NEUROETHICS AND NONHUMAN ANIMAL RESEARCH ETHICS.- Chapter 14 A Threshold Standard for Regulating Invasive Nonhuman Primate Research in the Age of the Major Brain Projects.- Chapter 15 The Right to Bodily Sovereignty and Its Importance to Mental and Physical Well-Being.- Chapter 16 The Trouble with Animal Models in Brain Research.- Chapter 17 Animal Models and the Search for Drug Treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury.