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D. L. Cheney, R. M. Seyfarth, Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. A Review

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007

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  1. I doubt very much that Cheney and Seyfarth are going to deny that baboons feel pain or even pleasure. This makes their conflation of consciousness and self-consciousness only the more puzzling.

  2. See http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=CALD.

  3. Similarly, the authors open the twelfth chapter with the claim, “Darwin’s goal was to link metaphysics with survival and reproduction” (p. 273).

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Thanks are owed to members of the Novel Tech Ethics research team for helpful comments on an earlier draft. This work was supported by a research grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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Fenton, A. D. L. Cheney, R. M. Seyfarth, Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. A Review. Biol Philos 24, 129–136 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-008-9118-x

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