No Exceptionalism: Norms of Inquiry in the Science of Animal Consciousness
Journal of Consciousness Studies December 1, 2024 Charles Aaron Beasley
While the science of animal consciousness has seen a surge of new work, its most basic methodology remains highly disputed. In this paper I identify four candidate norms of inquiry that have been implicitly introduced in the recent literature. I call these (1) expansive theorizing, (2) indirect inquiry, (3) lowering epistemic standards, and (4) inflating epistemic standards. In each section, an...