Veit, Walter (2022) Confidence Levels or Degrees of Sentience? [Preprint]

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I applaud Crump et al. (2022) for improving upon previous guidelines for the assessment of pain in non-human species and the application of their framework towards decapod crustaceans. Rather than constituting a mere intermediate solution between the scientific difficulty of settling questions of animal consciousness and the need for a framework for the purposes of animal welfare legislation, I will argue that the longer lists of criteria for animal sentience should make us realize that animal sentience is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that must be studied with a plethora of methods in order to assess its diversity across the tree of life.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Veit, Walter wrwveit@gmail.com 0000-0001-7701-8995
Keywords:	animal sentience, animal pain, bioethics, animal ethics, pluralism, degrees of sentience
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited:	18 Oct 2022 13:27
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2023 01:04
Item ID:	21284
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Values In Science
Date:	2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21284

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