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Temporal Cognition in Animals Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Temporal Cognition in Animals

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Take a look at how we respond to that worry in the paper!

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Animal cultures matter for conservation, but also to animals - Learning & Behavior A growing acceptance that many nonhuman animal communities have distinct cultures – group-variable patterns of behavior and information sustained over time by social learning – is beginning to reshape...

Happy to share this new paper with @kristinandrews.bsky.social. We discuss the logic of recent arguments for the conservation of animal cultures, and what they tend to overlook: animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Animal cultures matter for conservation, but also to animals - Learning & Behavior A growing acceptance that many nonhuman animal communities have distinct cultures – group-variable patterns of behavior and information sustained over time by social learning – is beginning to reshape...

"Animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves."

If you enjoyed our recent episode on the value of animal cultures, you may be interested in this new paper by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social & @kristinandrews.bsky.social!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Thanks Steve! Simon and I spent a long time on this one, and I look forward to hearing what you think.

A bonobo tea party: Study shows humans aren't the only species that can pretend Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party. Kanzi could play along, they found.

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Congratulations Susana! I'm not surprised at all. Love the book!

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle.

No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

Melt the ICE Hat pattern by YarnCultMN In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal...

Time to get the knitting needles back out.

Congratulations! And, bravo for deciding to create an experiment and publish this finding. Veronika does deserve it!

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

So glad this study is getting so much media attention! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just published a revised entry on Animal Consciousness! By Michael Trestman, Jonathan Birch, Colin Allen @wileyprof.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons...

The social origins of consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences We present the social origins of consciousness hypothesis, according to which the ability to coordinate with group members was the original adaptive function of consciousness. We offer three arguments...

Loved this paper by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Noam Miller. A very convincing argument for the function of consciousness.

Thanks Susana!

Last call for papers for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology! Don't miss a fabulous program in sunny Atlanta this February. Submissions due Nov 20. See you there! #philosophy #psychology #CFP southernsociety.org

Marineland’s belugas face euthanasia threat as Ottawa, Ontario point fingers Marineland has asked the federal government for an infusion of emergency cash to help it feed and care for the whales

Canadians, time to write your MP and if you are in Ontario your MPP about Marineland's threat to kill the 30 belugas they are supposed to care for. Canada rightly denied their request to sell these animals to China. The response from Marineland is murder. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I don’t remember when I first heard of Jane Goodall. She was there before I knew anything, showing me that you can do science without following the old rules. Thank you Jane, for creating a path through the forest.

Normactivity Network "NormaCtivity” is an international research network which aims to promote research on normativity (both human and non-human) in a new and broader perspective, connecting scholars interested in studyin...

Yes, you will be able to see these talks on the Normactivity YouTube channel. They were great! www.youtube.com/channel/UCrt...

Hope to see folks on-line tomorrow for this great line up of talks on animal normativity, dedicated to Frans de Waal.

@compcogsoc.bsky.social

I just found out today that the Comparative Cognition Society is on Bluesky!

As a Fellow in CIFAR's Future Flourishing Program, I've seen the real impact of the Global Scholar program for ECRs. New call for GS in:

Child & Brain Development
Multiscale Human
Future Flourishing
Humanity’s Urban Future
Learning in Machines & Brains
Quantum Materials

cifar.ca/global-scholars

Join us September 12 for the 4th annual Normactivity Online Workshop, with four talks on 🐘 animal normativity 🐒, and dedicated to the memory of Frans de Waal, who launched the field. Speakers: Sarah Brosnan @lgruen.bsky.social Pier Francesco Ferrari, Phillip Kitcher. Register 👉 tinyurl.com/5akaw2j6

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Nice story by @abeloomis.bsky.social! Glad to see Riddle in there too. 🙏

Interested in the Future of Food? CIFAR will be announcing a new call for Discovery Workshops to support a new program (or two?) on this topic.

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Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science!

You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations to William O'Shea for successfully defending his dissertation "Social Norms in Transition: Identity, Ethics, and Social Change"! 👏🎉 Proud philosophy mama! #Philosophy #YorkU