Add to ORKGOne of the primary concerns in animal research is to ensure the welfare of laboratory animals. Modern views on animal welfare emphasise the role of animal sentience, i.e. the capacity of animals to experience subjective states such as pleasure or suffering, as a central component of welfare. The increasing official recognition of animal sentience has had large effects on laboratory animal research. The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (Low et al. 2012) marked an official scientific recognition of the presence of sentience in mammals, birds, and cephalopods. Animal sentience has furthermore been recognised in legislation in the European Union, New Zealand and parts of Australia, with discussions underway in other parts of the world to ...
‘Sentience’ sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
AbstractA brief history of the concept of sentience is given. It is pointed out that the idea of sen...
One of the primary concerns in animal research is ensuring the welfare of laboratory animals. Modern...
Sentience involves having some degree of awareness but awareness of self is not as complex as some p...
Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfar...
Broom’s (2014) book is a well-researched and thoroughly written exploration and evaluation of the jo...
This target article has three parts. The first briefly reviews the thinking about nonhuman animals’ ...
Research investigating animal consciousness and mental states, and the recent Cambridge Declaration ...
Most commentaries on our target article broadly support our approach to evaluating evidence of anima...
One of the commentaries on the target article notes that animal sentience is difficult to define o...
I sketch briefly some of the more influential theories concerned with the moral status of nonhuman a...
Animal sentience research cannot be divorced from its ethical and political implications. For exampl...
The use of non-human animals as models in research and drug testing is a key route through which con...
Precisely what is meant by the term sentience and how does it overlap with being conscious? We accep...
‘Sentience’ sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
AbstractA brief history of the concept of sentience is given. It is pointed out that the idea of sen...
One of the primary concerns in animal research is ensuring the welfare of laboratory animals. Modern...
Sentience involves having some degree of awareness but awareness of self is not as complex as some p...
Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfar...
Broom’s (2014) book is a well-researched and thoroughly written exploration and evaluation of the jo...
This target article has three parts. The first briefly reviews the thinking about nonhuman animals’ ...
Research investigating animal consciousness and mental states, and the recent Cambridge Declaration ...
Most commentaries on our target article broadly support our approach to evaluating evidence of anima...
One of the commentaries on the target article notes that animal sentience is difficult to define o...
I sketch briefly some of the more influential theories concerned with the moral status of nonhuman a...
Animal sentience research cannot be divorced from its ethical and political implications. For exampl...
The use of non-human animals as models in research and drug testing is a key route through which con...
Precisely what is meant by the term sentience and how does it overlap with being conscious? We accep...
‘Sentience’ sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
AbstractA brief history of the concept of sentience is given. It is pointed out that the idea of sen...