Add to ORKGSneddon et al. (2018) authoritatively summarize the compelling and overwhelming evidence for fish sentience, while methodically dismantling one rather emblematic research paper (Diggles et al. 2017) intended to discount solid evidence of fish sentience (Lopez-Luna et al. 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, & 2017d). I explore the larger practical moral contexts within which these debates take place and argue that denials of animal sentience are really moral canards
The welfare of fishes and aquatic invertebrates is important, and several jurisdictions have include...
Fish welfare issues are predicated on understanding whether fish are sentient beings. Therefore, we ...
Cora Diamond has criticized capacity-based approaches to determining the moral status of ...
Sneddon et al. address the scientists who reject the empirical evidence on fish sentience, calling t...
Key’s (2016) target article, “Why fish do not feel pain,” is based on a moralistic fallacy where con...
Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from wild sto...
Woodruff (2017) argues that teleosts’ more sophisticated behaviors make sense only if they are senti...
I present a little-known example of flexible, opportunistic behavior by a species of fish to undermi...
The systematic criticism of articles providing evidence that fish and invertebrates can feel pain is...
The plight of fishes has almost certainly got worse since Bentham (1789) coined the phrase “The ques...
The majority of commentaries are supportive of our position on the scepticism that muddies the water...
Arguments for fish sentience have difficulty with the philosophical zombie problem. Progress in AI h...
Animal welfare is an important concern in modern society. The most common ethical underpinning of an...
Although fish can feel pain and suffer, they are not often protected legally. Jonathan Balcombe’s Wh...
Recent empirical studies have reported evidence that many aquatic species, including fish, cephalopo...
The welfare of fishes and aquatic invertebrates is important, and several jurisdictions have include...
Fish welfare issues are predicated on understanding whether fish are sentient beings. Therefore, we ...
Cora Diamond has criticized capacity-based approaches to determining the moral status of ...
Sneddon et al. address the scientists who reject the empirical evidence on fish sentience, calling t...
Key’s (2016) target article, “Why fish do not feel pain,” is based on a moralistic fallacy where con...
Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from wild sto...
Woodruff (2017) argues that teleosts’ more sophisticated behaviors make sense only if they are senti...
I present a little-known example of flexible, opportunistic behavior by a species of fish to undermi...
The systematic criticism of articles providing evidence that fish and invertebrates can feel pain is...
The plight of fishes has almost certainly got worse since Bentham (1789) coined the phrase “The ques...
The majority of commentaries are supportive of our position on the scepticism that muddies the water...
Arguments for fish sentience have difficulty with the philosophical zombie problem. Progress in AI h...
Animal welfare is an important concern in modern society. The most common ethical underpinning of an...
Although fish can feel pain and suffer, they are not often protected legally. Jonathan Balcombe’s Wh...
Recent empirical studies have reported evidence that many aquatic species, including fish, cephalopo...
The welfare of fishes and aquatic invertebrates is important, and several jurisdictions have include...
Fish welfare issues are predicated on understanding whether fish are sentient beings. Therefore, we ...
Cora Diamond has criticized capacity-based approaches to determining the moral status of ...