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 ou...

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Autores principales: Browning, Heather, Veit, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Nature Singapore 2023
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10313588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37396677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41649-023-00244-7
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spelling pubmed-103135882023-07-02 Optimism about Measuring Animal Feelings Browning, Heather Veit, Walter Asian Bioeth Rev Perspective 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. Springer Nature Singapore 2023-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10313588/ /pubmed/37396677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41649-023-00244-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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