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Optimism about measuring animal feelings

Optimism about measuring animal feelings
Optimism about measuring animal feelings

While animal sentience research has flourished in the last decade, scepticism about our ability to accurately measure animal feelings has unfortunately remained fairly common. Here, we argue that evolutionary considerations about the functions of feelings will give us more reason for optimism and outline a method for how this might be achieved.

animal ethics, animal pain, animal sentience, animal welfare, consciousness studies, Consciousness studies, Animal ethics, Animal pain, Animal welfare, Animal sentience
1793-8759
351-355
Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter
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Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter
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Browning, Heather and Veit, Walter (2023) Optimism about measuring animal feelings. Asian Bioethics Review, 15 (3), 351-355. (doi:10.1007/s41649-023-00244-7).

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While animal sentience research has flourished in the last decade, scepticism about our ability to accurately measure animal feelings has unfortunately remained fairly common. Here, we argue that evolutionary considerations about the functions of feelings will give us more reason for optimism and outline a method for how this might be achieved.

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Accepted/In Press date: 7 February 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 March 2023
Published date: July 2023
Additional Information: © The Author(s) 2023.
Keywords: animal ethics, animal pain, animal sentience, animal welfare, consciousness studies, Consciousness studies, Animal ethics, Animal pain, Animal welfare, Animal sentience

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Local EPrints ID: 477390
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/477390
ISSN: 1793-8759
PURE UUID: 7555b927-dfa7-4315-9f8e-7c6cc647d0bc
ORCID for Heather Browning: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-7052

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Date deposited: 05 Jun 2023 17:01
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:15

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Author: Heather Browning ORCID iD
Author: Walter Veit

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