Studying animal feelings: integrating sentience research and welfare science
Studying animal feelings: integrating sentience research and welfare science
The goal of this article is to bring together two fields of research — animal sentience research and animal welfare science — with the aim of advancing our understanding of animal emotions, especially their subjectively experienced or ‘felt’ component (feelings). While these two research areas share a common interest in animal feelings, they have had surprisingly little interaction. In this paper, we make a call for the integration of these fields and outline some of the ways in which work done in each of these areas can inform and benefit the other, such as strengthening the theoretical and conceptual bases of both fields, and sharing methods used by each, advocating further future collaboration for the benefit of both disciplines.
animal affect, animal emotions, animal welfare science, consciousness, feelings, sentience
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Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter
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2023
Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter
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Browning, Heather and Veit, Walter
(2023)
Studying animal feelings: integrating sentience research and welfare science.
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 30 (7-8), .
(doi:10.53765/20512201.30.7.196).
Abstract
The goal of this article is to bring together two fields of research — animal sentience research and animal welfare science — with the aim of advancing our understanding of animal emotions, especially their subjectively experienced or ‘felt’ component (feelings). While these two research areas share a common interest in animal feelings, they have had surprisingly little interaction. In this paper, we make a call for the integration of these fields and outline some of the ways in which work done in each of these areas can inform and benefit the other, such as strengthening the theoretical and conceptual bases of both fields, and sharing methods used by each, advocating further future collaboration for the benefit of both disciplines.
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Published date: 2023
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animal affect, animal emotions, animal welfare science, consciousness, feelings, sentience
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/490076
ISSN: 1355-8250
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