Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs

Michael Tye encountered philosophy at Oxford and taught at Temple University, St. Andrews, and the University of London before coming to the University of Texas at Austin in 2003, where he is the Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts.

• Chapter 1: Experience and Its Limits: The Problem.Chapter 2 -- Experience and Consciousness2.1 Problem Cases?2.2 The Higher Order Theory of Consciousness2.3 Phenomenal consciousness versus access consciousness2.4 Phenomenal consciousness versus access consciousness2.5 The upshot for animal consciousnessChapter 3: It's Got to be Human!3.1 Descartes and the animals3.2 Descartes and Turing3.3 Conceptualism about experienceChapter 4 - Our Friends and Neighbors4.1 Beliefs and desires4.2 Experiences and feelingsChapter 5: Reasoning about Other Species5.1 Cupcake's pain5.2 Sharpening the issue5.3 Is the absence of a neocortex a defeater?5.4 Should we be agnostic?5.5 Alternative strategiesChapter 6: A Fish Called Wanda6.1 Pain6.2 Fish nociception and fish behavior 6.3 Is there a better explanation?6.4 Fish fear 6.5 Perceptual consciousness in fish6.6 Yes, but are there really fish qualia?Chapter 7: Of Birds and Reptiles (and Fish)7.1 The origins of birds7.2 Bird emotions7.3 Birds and pain7.4 Perceptual experiences in birds7.5 ReptilesChapter 8: Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs8.1 Insect nociception and pain8.2 Insects and emotions8.3 Are bees zombies?8.4 Crabs and pain8.5 Crabs and beesChapter 9: The Girl Who Cannot Feel Pain9.1 A complaint from Block9.2 Protozoa9.3 Plants9.4 CaterpillarsChapter 10: Commander Data and Robot Rabbit10.1 The original China-Body problem10.2 Reasoning about Commander Data10.3 The silicon chip argument10.4 Real rabbit and robot rabbit 10.5 A further reason for preferring the view that Commander Data and robot rabbit are conscious10.6 A final considerationChapter 11: The Ethical Treatment of Animals11.1 Animal welfarism11.2 Speciesism11.3 Regan and Rawls 11.4 Centered speciesism and biological proximity11.5 The treatment of animals

Arguing from straightforward principles, he comes to the conclusion that consciousness is widespread. Along the way, he marshals an impressive array of empirical evidence, focusing on the traditionally overlooked corners of the animal world...a book devoted to the complexity and wonder of sections of the animal kingdom mostly overlooked in ordinary ethical discussions. This is a book rich in empirical examples, which is sure to generate discussion and controversy on a timely topic.