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Behavioral Assessment of Manual Dexterity in Non-Human Primates
Published on: November 11, 2011
Is that all there is? Or is chimpanzees group hunt "fair" enough?
1Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002Israel. angelica.kaufmann@gmail.comhttps://biu.academia.edu/AngelicaKaufmann.
Abstract:
Tomasello claims that we lack convincing evidence that nonhuman animals manifest a sense of moral obligation (i.e., the concept of fairness) in their group activities. The philosophical analysis of distinctive evidence from ethology, namely group hunting practices among chimpanzees, can help the author appreciate the distinctive character of this behaviour as a display of fairness put into practice.
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