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Volume 1 (2016)
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Volume 2 (2017)
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Volume 3 (2018)
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Volume 4 (2019)
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Volume 5 (2020)
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Volume 6 (2021)
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Gough, Joe
(2022) Defending human difference by raising the bar. Animal Sentience 23(54)
Commentary on Human Difference
Bekoff, Marc
(2022) Time to stop pretending we don’t know other animals are sentient beings. Animal Sentience 31(2)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Reber, Arthur S;
Baluska, Frantisek;
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Miller, William B, Jr.
(2022) All living organisms are sentient. Animal Sentience 31(3)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Brown, Culum
(2022) Sentience politics : a fishy perspective. Animal Sentience 31(4)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Phillips, Clive
(2022) The question is not “can humans talk?” or “can they suffer?” but “can they reason?”. Animal Sentience 31(5)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Webster, John Anthony
(2022) Sentience and sentient minds. Animal Sentience 31(6)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Kotzmann, Jane
(2022) Legal recognition of animal sentience: the case for cautious optimism. Animal Sentience 31(7)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Dawkins, Marian Stamp
(2022) The science of animal sentience and the politics of animal welfare should be kept separate. Animal Sentience 31(8)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Bass, Claire
(2022) Overcoming inertia to deliver sentience policy commensurate with sentience science. Animal Sentience 31(9)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Birch, Jonathan
(2022) Sentience and the science-policy interface. Animal Sentience 31(10)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Ristau, Carolyn A.
(2022) Revisiting Donald Griffin, founder of cognitive ethology. Animal Sentience 31(11)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Jones, Mark
(2022) Why the recognition of sentience is so important for animal welfare. Animal Sentience 31(12)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Hughes, Barry O.
(2022) Defining and assessing sentience. Animal Sentience 31(13)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Palmer, Clare
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Sandøe, Peter
(2022) Wild animal welfare. Animal Sentience 31(14)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Crump, Andrew
(2022) Animal sentience science and policy. Animal Sentience 31(15)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Krishna, Nanditha
(2022) Animal sentience in Indian culture: Colonial and post-colonial changes. Animal Sentience 31(16)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Damasio, Antonio
(2022) The reality and prevalence of animal sentience. Animal Sentience 31(17)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
van Kleef, Gerben A.
(2022) Animals may be more reliably emotional than humans. Animal Sentience 31(18)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Lifshin, Uri
(2022) Motivated science: What humans gain from denying animal sentience. Animal Sentience 31(19)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Bender, Yana
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Bräuer, Juliane
(2022) The dissonance between knowing animals are sentient beings yet eating them. Animal Sentience 31(20)
Commentary on Sentience Politics
Crump, Andrew; Browning, Heather; Schnell, Alex; Burn, Charlotte; and Birch, Jonathan (2022) Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence. Animal Sentience 32(1)
Solms, Mark
(2022) Truly minimal criteria for animal sentience. Animal Sentience 32(2)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Reber, Arthur S;
Baluska, Frantisek;
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Miller, William B, Jr.
(2022) Of course crustaceans are sentient: But there's more to the story. Animal Sentience 32(3)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Jablonka, Eva
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Ginsburg, Simona
(2022) Pain sentience criteria and their grading. Animal Sentience 32(4)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Tye, Michael
(2022) Crustacean Pain. Animal Sentience 32(5)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Ng, Yew Kwang
(2022) No need for certainty in animal sentience. Animal Sentience 32(6)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Brown, Culum
(2022) Fine-tuning the criteria for inferring sentience. Animal Sentience 32(7)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Souza Valente, Cecilia de
(2022) Decapod sentience: broadening the framework. Animal Sentience 32(8)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Gorman, Richard
(2022) What might decapod sentience mean for policy, practice, and public?. Animal Sentience 32(9)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Irvine, Elizabeth
(2022) Independence, weight and priority of evidence for sentience. Animal Sentience 32(10)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Woodruff, Michael L
(2022) Sentience in decapods: Difficulties to surmount. Animal Sentience 32(11)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Burrell, Brian D
(2022) Emotional component of pain perception in the medicinal leech?. Animal Sentience 32(12)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Comstock, Gary
(2022) Pain in Pleocyemata, but not in Dendrobranchiata?. Animal Sentience 32(13)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Walters, Edgar T
(2022) Strong inferences about pain in invertebrates require stronger evidence. Animal Sentience 32(14)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Levin, Michael
(2022) Generalizing frameworks for sentience beyond natural species. Animal Sentience 32(15)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Montemayor, Carlos
(2022) Distinguishing epistemic and moral grounds for legal protection. Animal Sentience 32(16)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Andrews, Kristin
(2022) Does the sentience framework imply all animals are sentient?. Animal Sentience 32(17)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Abramson, Charles I
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Calvo, Paco
(2022) Unresolved issues of behavioral analysis in invertebrates. Animal Sentience 32(18)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Briffa, Mark
(2022) Sentience in decapods: an open question. Animal Sentience 32(19)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Dawkins, Marian Stamp
(2022) Unconscious humans, autonomous machines and the difficulty of knowing which animals are sentient. Animal Sentience 32(20)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Butlin, Patrick
(2022) Sentience criteria to persuade the reasonable sceptic. Animal Sentience 32(21)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
de Waal, Frans B. M.
(2022) Sentience as part of emotional lives. Animal Sentience 32(22)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Brown, Simon A. B.
(2022) How much of a pain would a crustacean “common currency” really be?. Animal Sentience 32(23)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Mallatt, Jon
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Feinberg, Todd E, MD
(2022) Decapod sentience: Promising framework and evidence. Animal Sentience 32(24)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Kakrada, Eva
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Colombo, Michael
(2022) Extending the null hypothesis to invertebrate pain sentience. Animal Sentience 32(25)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Key, Brian
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Brown, Deborah
(2022) Lack of imagination can bias our view of animal sentience. Animal Sentience 32(26)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Cooper, Jonathan J.;
Tinarwo, Ambrose;
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Ventura, Beth A
(2022) Decapods as food, companions and research animals: Legal impact of ascribing sentience. Animal Sentience 32(27)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Gibbons, Matilda
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Chittka, Lars
(2022) A framework for evaluating evidence of pain in animals. Animal Sentience 32(28)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Elwood, Robert W.
(2022) Pros and cons of a framework for evaluating potential pain in decapods. Animal Sentience 32(29)
Commentary on Decapod Sentience
Schrynemakers, Sabina (2022) Free will and animal suicide. Animal Sentience 20(21)
Commentary on Animal Suicide