Add to ORKGIn a recent article, Rowan et al. (2022) have expressed scepticism about our ability to accurately measure animal feelings. Here, we argue that evolutionary considerations about the functions of feelings might give us more reason for optimism, and outline a method for how this might be achieved
Rowan et al use findings from neurobiology, clinical neurology, and general biology to argue for the...
Reading Kujala’s (2017) target article, I wondered whether we really need to approach the issue of a...
To understand animal wellbeing, we need to consider subjective phenomena and sentience. This is chal...
While animal sentience research has flourished in the last decade, scepticism about our ability to a...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
Despite considerable advances in the study of animal sentience, reluctance to credit non-human anima...
Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfar...
It is high time to explore the sentience of invertebrate animals, but this topic cannot be discussed...
The idea of animals having emotions was once rejected as being anthropomorphic and unscientific. How...
Sentience involves having some degree of awareness but awareness of self is not as complex as some p...
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...
How an animal reacts to a sensory stimulus is often used to assess whether that animal can experienc...
The study of emotion is rife with debate over issues as fundamental as how to define emotion, and su...
Do nonhuman animals (henceforth, animals) have emotions, and if so, are these similar to ours? This ...
Rowan et al use findings from neurobiology, clinical neurology, and general biology to argue for the...
Reading Kujala’s (2017) target article, I wondered whether we really need to approach the issue of a...
To understand animal wellbeing, we need to consider subjective phenomena and sentience. This is chal...
While animal sentience research has flourished in the last decade, scepticism about our ability to a...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
Despite considerable advances in the study of animal sentience, reluctance to credit non-human anima...
Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfar...
It is high time to explore the sentience of invertebrate animals, but this topic cannot be discussed...
The idea of animals having emotions was once rejected as being anthropomorphic and unscientific. How...
Sentience involves having some degree of awareness but awareness of self is not as complex as some p...
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...
How an animal reacts to a sensory stimulus is often used to assess whether that animal can experienc...
The study of emotion is rife with debate over issues as fundamental as how to define emotion, and su...
Do nonhuman animals (henceforth, animals) have emotions, and if so, are these similar to ours? This ...
Rowan et al use findings from neurobiology, clinical neurology, and general biology to argue for the...
Reading Kujala’s (2017) target article, I wondered whether we really need to approach the issue of a...
To understand animal wellbeing, we need to consider subjective phenomena and sentience. This is chal...