Featured: Two Recent Books on Animal Morality [Vol. 2, #47]

Two Recent Books on Animal Morality

…Few people today would question that many nonhuman animals have rich cognitive and emotional lives, but the assertion that animals also exhibit morality is still guaranteed to raise some hackles. Nonetheless, the evidence is growing, and two recent books present highly readable, entertaining, and informative surveys of the expression of morality in nonhuman animals: Frans de Waal’s The Age of Empathy, and Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce’s Wild Justice.…