Honeybee Sentience: Scientific Evidence and Implications for EU Animal Welfare Policy [PDF]
Veterinary SciencesThe growing recognition of animal sentience has led to notable progress in European Union animal welfare legislation. However, a significant inconsistency remains: while mammals, birds, and cephalopods are legally protected as sentient beings, honeybees (
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Near and Dear? If animal welfare concepts do not apply to species at a great phylogenetic distance from humans, what concepts might serve as alternatives? [PDF]
Animal WelfareA wide range of animal taxa, including vertebrates and invertebrates, are controlled or kept by humans. They may be used as pets, for recreation, sport and hobbies, as working animals, as producers of animal-derived (food) products or as biomedical ...
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Defending and refining the Birch et al. (2021) precautionary framework for animal sentience [PDF]
Animal WelfareIt is widely accepted that we ought to avoid taking excessive risks of causing gratuitous suffering. The practical implications of this truism, however, depend on how we understand what counts as an excessive risk. Precautionary frameworks help us decide
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Neurobiological emergentism: sentience as an emergent process and the experiential gap [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyOne of the most controversial and debated problems regarding the nature of sentience, is how to integrate the biology and neurobiology of sentience with the problem of the “explanatory gaps” that are proposed to arise between the functions of the nervous
Todd E. Feinberg
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A History of Pain Studies and Changing Attitudes to the Welfare of Crustaceans [PDF]
AnimalsEarly discussions about possible pain in crustaceans often comprised speculation and anecdotes. Experiments to investigate pain took guidance from these early debates, and from studies on other taxa.
Robert William Elwood
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Animal Interiority: Sentience and Spatial Perception
InteriorityInterior design has traditionally prioritised human experiences, often neglecting ecological and nonhuman perspectives on interiority. This anthropocentric focus limits the discipline's ability to address the spatial and sensory needs of nonhuman persons,
Raymund Königk
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Animal, 2023 Sentientism is the most influential position in animal ethics. It presents sentience as decisive for integrating animals in ethics. Nevertheless, its significance for animal ethical argumentation is not quite clear.
H. Baranzke, H.W. Ingensiep
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Sentience, Harmony and the Value of Nature
Animals, 2022 Concern for nature and for animal sentience are important public and political moral concerns. Using frameworks such as Harmony for Nature and One Health and the recent IPBES report on the Diverse Values of Nature, this paper considers how the two issues
James William Yeates
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Introducing individual sentience profiles in nonhuman primate neuroscience research
Current Research in Neurobiology, 2023 The Animal Research Declaration is committed to establishing cohesive and rigorous ethical standards to safeguard the welfare of nonhuman primates (NHPs) engaged in neuroscience research (Petkov et al., 2022 this issue). As part of this mission, there is
Angelica Kaufmann
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Editorial: Animal consciousness: exploring theoretical, methodological and ethical issues [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyMatteo Laurenzi +2 more
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