Have you ever, when speaking up for animals, been accused of “anthropomorphism”? This accusation is often a handy way for animal exploiters to intimidate and silence objections to the mistreatment for animals as well as to ridicule insistence that nonhuman animals have feelings and awareness just as we do. In this podcast I distinguish between false anthropomorphism and empathic anthropomorphism as quite different ways of inferring what other animals are communicating about themselves through their self-expressions. Please join me.
