Animal morality

Let's do some reviewing first...

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Do animals have anything like morality--like humans do?

Does it matter, as far as their fundamental moral status is concerned?

1. Kant -- in some places, says YES
2. Singer -- NO
3. Regan -- NO ...it's one thing to be a moral AGENT, another to be a moral PATIENT

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Note: in Module 3 we're going to get some additional views on which mental capacities in animals matter to their fundamental moral status and which don't matter.

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So...DO animals have anything like morality?

Two theories

1. Morality is something entirely new in humans, there's nothing like in in animals
2. There are rudiments/precursors of morality in animals; human morality evolved from these precursors (this is Frans DeWaal's view)

What are thes rudiments/precursors of morality in animals?

1. Perspective taking 
2. Targeted helping
• chimps will try to get humans to give them a banana outside their enclosure--will point if humans can see them--will make noise if humans can't see them
3. Cooperation 
•  the cooperative pulling paradigm
• teamwork in other animals--whales, orcas, lions, wolves, wild dogs, Harris's hawks, capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees
4. Empathy
5. Reciprocity & Fairness