Citation
Gough, Joe (2022) Defending human difference by raising the bar. Animal Sentience 23(54)
Commentary Type
Open Commentary
Thread
Colin A. Chapman and Michael A. Huffman, Why do we want to think humans are different?
Abstract
Chapman & Huffman (C&H) offer a theory of why we humans want to believe that we are different: to justify our cruelty to animals. This commentary offers further supporting evidence of this and examines more closely what the claim that humans are ‘different’ amounts to. It also considers some methodological issues in animal psychology closely related to C&H ‘s theory. These problems result from a common strategy for defending hypotheses about human difference.
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DOI
10.51291/2377-7478.1695
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