Many of us have seen a companion animal move their paws, twitch, or whimper during bedtime but what do we really know about what goes on in the minds of various animals when they sleep?
Tom and Liz have a conversation with Dr. David M. Peña-Guzmán, Associate Professor of Humanities at San Francisco State University. Dr. Peña-Guzmán says he is a late-comer to the animal cause. While working on a conversation project as an ethics expert he began thinking about the use of animals in research which led him to consider animal concerns. He is the co-host of the philosophy podcast Overthink and author of When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, about the behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep and how dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals.
This interview originally aired on April 14, 2024.
