Download or read book Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition written by Gary E. Varner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book also draws heavily on empirical research on consciousness and cognition in non-human animals as a way of approaching the question of which animals, if any, are "persons," or at least "near-persons".