Academic publications (selection):
Monsó, S. & Danón, L. (forthcoming): ‘Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition.’ The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. DOI: 10.1086/733889
Monsó, S. (2024): Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death. Princeton University Press.
Melis, G. & Monsó, S. (2024): ‘Are humans the only rational animals?’ The Philosophical Quarterly, 74 (3), 844–864.
Gruen, L. & Monsó, S. (2024): Revision of the ‘Moral status of animals’ entry. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Monsó, S. & Hintze, S. (2023): ‘For their own good? The unseen harms of disenhancing farmed animals’ in Abbate, C. E. & Bobier, C. (eds.): New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives. Routledge.
Monsó, S. & Moore, R. (2023): ‘Normative expectations in human and nonhuman animals.’ Perspectives on Psychological Science. DOI: 10.1177/17456916231187401
Monsó, S. (2022): ‘How to tell if animals can understand death.’ Erkenntnis, 87, 117–136.
Monsó, S. & Andrews, K. (2022): ‘Animal moral psychologies’ in Vargas, M. & Doris, J. (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, pp. 388–420. New York: Oxford University Press.
Monsó, S. & Osuna-Mascaró, A.J. (2021): ‘Death is common, so is understanding it: The concept of death in other species.’ Synthese, 199 (1), 2251–2275.
Monsó, S. & Wrage, B. (2021): ‘Tactful animals: How the study of touch can inform the animal morality debate.’ Philosophical Psychology, 34 (1), 1–27.
Andrews, K. & Monsó, S. (2021): Rewrite of the ‘Animal cognition’ entry. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Monsó, S. & Osuna-Mascaró, A.J. (2020): ‘Problems with basing insect ethics on individuals’ welfare.’ Animal Sentience, 29 (8).
Monsó, S., Benz-Schwarzburg, J., & Bremhorst, A. (2018): ‘Animal morality: What it means and why it matters.’ The Journal of Ethics, 22 (3–4), 283–310.
Monsó, S. (2017): ‘Morality without mindreading.’ Mind & Language, 32 (3), 338–57.
Rowlands, M. & Monsó, S. (2017): ‘Animals as reflexive thinkers: the aponoian paradigm’ in Kalof, L. (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, pp: 319-343. New York: Oxford University Press.
Monsó, S. (2015): ‘Empathy and morality in behaviour readers.’ Biology & Philosophy, 30 (5), 671-690.
Outreach (selection):
Monsó, S. ‘To truly understand non-human grief, we need to think like the animals’, New Scientist, November 13, 2024.
Monsó, S. ‘Five best: Books on the animal kingdom’, Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2024.
Monsó, S. ‘Animals’ understanding of death can teach us about our own’, TIME, October 18, 2024.
Monsó, S. ‘La matanza y la traición’ (2023) foreword for the book Ánima by photojournalist Ruth Montiel Arias.
Monsó, S. Response to the query ‘Do any animals, other than us, have an awareness of their own mortality?’, New Scientist, February 12, 2022.
Monsó, S. ‘What animals think of death’, Aeon, September 14, 2021.
Andrews, K., & Monsó, S. ‘Rats are us’ Aeon, March 2, 2020.
Ongoing projects:
- A paper on the philosophy of comparative cognition, with Kristin Andrews.
- Another paper on the philosophy of comparative cognition, with Richard Moore.
- A paper on the ethical implications of animals’ concept of death, with Eze Paez.
- A paper on animal medicine, with Cristian Saborido.