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Animal Sentience [ASent] is the first academic journal to focus on the capacity of nonhuman animals to experience feelings—publishing empirical findings and addressing their practical, methodological, legal, ethical, sociological, theological and philosophical implications. ASent is open-access and peer-reviewed, with articles followed by open peer commentaries from specialists in relevant fields.
Articles are published online as soon as they have been peer-reviewed, accepted and edited. Commentaries and Responses are published immediately after editorial review. For citation purposes, the volume number is the year of publication and the issue number reflects the order in which papers appear in the journal. The submission process is automated through the Journal’s website.
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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Thys, Tierney M
(2020) Exploring eight-armed intelligence through film. Animal Sentience 26(27)
Commentary on Octopus Mind
Cecconi, Benedetta;
Annen, Jitka;
and
Laureys, Steven
(2020) Can human neurological tests of consciousness be applied to octopus?. Animal Sentience 26(28)
Commentary on Octopus Mind
Dulany, Donelson E.
(2020) Human-controlled survival of nonhumans. Animal Sentience 27(14)
Commentary on Just preservation
Sevillano, Verónica
(2020) Group stereotypes: Human and nonhuman. Animal Sentience 27(15)
Commentary on Just preservation
Correia Caeiro, Catia
(2020) Comparative cognition and nonhuman individuality. Animal Sentience 27(16)
Commentary on Just preservation
Franks, Becca;
Webb, Christine;
Gagliano, Monica;
and
Smuts, Barbara
(2020) Conventional science will not do justice to nonhuman interests: A fresh approach is required. Animal Sentience 27(17)
Commentary on Just preservation
Paez, Eze
(2020) Preserving nature for the benefit of all sentient individuals. Animal Sentience 27(18)
Commentary on Just preservation
Kiley-Worthington, Marthe
(2020) The wholeness of nature. Animal Sentience 27(19)
Commentary on Just preservation
Batavia, Chelsea
(2020) Is anthropocentrism really the problem?. Animal Sentience 27(20)
Commentary on Just preservation
Wienhues, Anna
(2020) Disentangling different forms of justice. Animal Sentience 27(21)
Commentary on Just preservation
Dowe, David L.
and
Chmait, Nader
(2020) Game theory and Artificial Intelligence in just preservation. Animal Sentience 27(22)
Commentary on Just preservation
Gradidge, Sarah
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Zawisza, Magdalena
(2020) Toward a non-anthropocentric view on the environment and animal welfare: Possible psychological interventions. Animal Sentience 27(23)
Commentary on Just preservation
Lynch, Kate E.
and
Blumstein, Daniel T.
(2020) Conflicts and triage. Animal Sentience 27(24)
Commentary on Just preservation
Howard, Scarlett R.
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Dyer, Adrian G.
(2020) How to engage public support to protect overlooked species. Animal Sentience 27(25)
Commentary on Just preservation
Danielson, Scott W.
and
Vonasch, Andrew J.
(2020) Selling just preservation. Animal Sentience 27(26)
Commentary on Just preservation
Santiago-Ávila, Francisco J.;
Treves, Adrian;
and
Lynn, William
(2020) Just preservation, trusteeship and multispecies justice. Animal Sentience 27(27)
Response to Just preservation
Baker, Liv and Winkler, Rebecca (2020) Asian elephant rescue, rehabilitation and rewilding. Animal Sentience 28(1)
Kopnina, Helen
(2020) Of elephants and men. Animal Sentience 28(2)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Suter, Ingrid
(2020) Rewilding or reviewing: Conservation and the elephant-based tourism industry. Animal Sentience 28(3)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Pauketat, Janet VT
(2020) A psychological perspective on elephant rewilding. Animal Sentience 28(4)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Lainé, Nicolas
(2020) Anthropology and conservation. Animal Sentience 28(5)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Snijders, Lysanne
(2020) Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of elephant rewilding. Animal Sentience 28(6)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Lorimer, Jamie
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Rahmat, Khatijah
(2020) Elephants at work. Animal Sentience 28(7)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Blumstein, Daniel T.
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Lynch, Kate E.
(2020) Innovative, yes: But is it rewilding?. Animal Sentience 28(8)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
McGrew, William C.
(2020) Practicalities of re-wilding. Animal Sentience 28(9)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Mehrkam, Lindsay R.
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Fad, Otto
(2020) Animal welfare science and “a life worth living” for wild and captive elephants. Animal Sentience 28(10)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Humphreys, Rebekah
(2020) Philosophy, ecology and elephant equality. Animal Sentience 28(11)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Celermajer, Danielle
(2020) Rethinking rewilding through multispecies justice. Animal Sentience 28(12)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Crist, Eileen
(2020) Protecting nature, freeing beings. Animal Sentience 28(13)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Lee, Phyllis C.
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Lindsay, W. Keith
(2020) A “halfway house” for improving captive welfare. Animal Sentience 28(14)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Phalke, Sagarika
(2020) Rewilding elephants: A solution or a potential problem?. Animal Sentience 28(15)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Wallach, Arian D.;
Jasinghe, Sujeewa;
Fernando, Sudarshani;
and
Rizzolo, Jessica Bell
(2020) Compassionate conservation and elephant personhood. Animal Sentience 28(16)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Correia-Caeiro, Catia
(2020) Rewilding and domestication: Clarifying terminology. Animal Sentience 28(17)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
van de Water, Antoinette;
Henley, Michelle;
Bates, Lucy;
and
Slotow, Rob
(2020) Future of Thailand's captive elephants. Animal Sentience 28(18)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Massiot, Elodie
(2020) Challenging our conception of wildness. Animal Sentience 28(19)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Treves, Adrian
(2020) Elephants and pandemics. Animal Sentience 28(20)
Commentary on Elephant Rewilding
Baker, Liv
(2020) Rewilding and mixed-community collaboration in conservation. Animal Sentience 28(21)
Response to Elephant Rewilding
Mikhalevich, Irina and Powell, Russell (2020) Minds without spines: Evolutionarily inclusive animal ethics. Animal Sentience 29(1)
Levy, Neil
(2020) It might not matter very much whether insects are conscious. Animal Sentience 29(2)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Figdor, Carrie
(2020) Relationship between cognition and moral status needs overhaul. Animal Sentience 29(3)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter
(2020) Improving invertebrate welfare. Animal Sentience 29(4)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Vonk, Jennifer
(2020) No room for speciesism in welfare considerations. Animal Sentience 29(5)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Cammaerts, Marie-Claire
(2020) Invertebrates should be given ethical consideration. Animal Sentience 29(6)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Soryl, Asher
(2020) Invertebrate welfare in the wild. Animal Sentience 29(7)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Monsó, Susana
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Osuna-Mascaró, Antonio J.
(2020) Problems with basing insect ethics on individuals’ welfare. Animal Sentience 29(8)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Balcombe, Jonathan
(2020) Intuition and the invertebrate dogma. Animal Sentience 29(9)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Elwood, Robert W.
(2020) Do arthropods respond to noxious stimuli purely by reflex?. Animal Sentience 29(10)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Zentall, Thomas R.
(2020) Cognition, movement and morality. Animal Sentience 29(11)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Lockwood, Jeffrey A.
(2020) Virtue ethics and the likelihood of invertebrate suffering. Animal Sentience 29(12)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Veit, Walter
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Huebner, Bryce
(2020) Drawing the boundaries of animal sentience. Animal Sentience 29(13)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Mallatt, Jon
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Feinberg, Todd E.
(2020) Sentience in evolutionary context. Animal Sentience 29(14)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
DeGrazia, David
(2020) On the possibility of invertebrate sentience. Animal Sentience 29(15)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Woodruff, Michael L.
(2020) Whether invertebrates are sentient matters to bioethics and science policy. Animal Sentience 29(16)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Vallortigara, Giorgio
(2020) Lessons from miniature brains: Cognition cheap, memory expensive (sentience linked to active movement?). Animal Sentience 29(17)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Baracchi, David
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Baciadonna, Luigi
(2020) Insect sentience and the rise of a new inclusive ethics. Animal Sentience 29(18)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Marino, Lori
(2020) Sentience in all organisms with centralized nervous systems. Animal Sentience 29(19)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Lee, Andrew Y.
(2020) Does sentience come in degrees?. Animal Sentience 29(20)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Howard, Scarlett R.
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Symonds, Matthew R.E.
(2020) Ethical considerations for invertebrates. Animal Sentience 29(21)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Marzluff, John M.
(2020) Bridging the empathy gap for invertebrates. Animal Sentience 29(22)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Dietrich, Eric
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Fox Hall, Tara
(2020) Moral treatment for all. Animal Sentience 29(23)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Key, Brian
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Brown, Deborah
(2020) Minds, morality and midgies. Animal Sentience 29(24)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Brown, Culum, Prof.
(2020) Convergent evolution of sentience?. Animal Sentience 29(25)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Chapouthier, Georges
(2020) Invertebrate cognition, sentience and biology. Animal Sentience 29(26)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Broom, Donald M
(2020) Brain complexity, sentience and welfare. Animal Sentience 29(27)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Birch, Jonathan
(2020) Zones of precaution. Animal Sentience 29(28)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Fitzpatrick, Simon
(2020) Avoiding anthropocentrism in evolutionarily inclusive ethics. Animal Sentience 29(29)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Forber, Patrick
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Jones, Robert C
(2020) Spineless and sentient: a challenge for moral comparison. Animal Sentience 29(30)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Cartmill, Matt
(2020) Do beetles have experiences? How can we tell?. Animal Sentience 29(31)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Delon, Nicolas;
Cook, Peter;
Bauer, Gordon;
and
Harley, Heidi
(2020) Consider the agent in the arthropod. Animal Sentience 29(32)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Clarke, Steve
(2020) When some animals are more equal than others. Animal Sentience 29(33)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Gibbons, Matilda
and
Sarlak, Sajedeh
(2020) Inhibition of pain or response to injury in invertebrates and vertebrates. Animal Sentience 29(34)
Commentary on Invertebrate Minds
Powell, Russell
and
Mikhalevich, Irina
(2020) Affective sentience and moral protection. Animal Sentience 29(35)
Response to Invertebrate Minds
Wiebers, David and Feigin, Valery (2020) What the COVID-19 crisis is telling humanity. Animal Sentience 30(1)
Cao, Deborah
(2020) Global risks of intensive animal farming and the wildlife trade. Animal Sentience 30(2)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Eshel, Gidon
(2020) Pandemic leadership failures and public health. Animal Sentience 30(3)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Greger, Michael
(2020) Whenever possible, treat the cause: Shut down the flu factories. Animal Sentience 30(4)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Anomaly, Jonathan
(2020) Cultured meat would prevent the next Covid crisis. Animal Sentience 30(5)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Fox, Michael W.
(2020) One planet, one health. Animal Sentience 30(6)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Broom, Donald M
(2020) The necessity of human attitude change and methods of avoiding pandemics. Animal Sentience 30(7)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Schuck-Paim, Cynthia
(2020) Intensive animal farming conditions are a major threat to global health. Animal Sentience 30(8)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Fawcett, Anne
(2020) One Welfare, the role of health professionals, and climate change. Animal Sentience 30(9)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Lovell, Jarret S.
(2020) Plant-based diets and COVID-19: Those who harvest crops are at high risk. Animal Sentience 30(10)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Whitfort, Amanda
(2020) China's lack of animal welfare legislation increases the risk of further pandemics. Animal Sentience 30(11)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Bryant, Christopher J.
(2020) Innovation in meat production: a problem and an opportunity. Animal Sentience 30(12)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Feigin, Svetlana
(2020) It does not cost the earth to be kind. Animal Sentience 30(13)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Morand, Serge
(2020) New approach to health and the environment to avoid future pandemics. Animal Sentience 30(14)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Wyatt, Tanya
(2020) Harm, Earth Jurisprudence and human/nonhuman relationships. Animal Sentience 30(15)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Robbins, Jesse
(2020) Be wary of simple solutions to complex problems. Animal Sentience 30(16)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Marcum, James A
(2020) Can we handle the truth of what COVID-19 is telling us?. Animal Sentience 30(17)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Skerratt, Lee
(2020) Wildlife health systems. Animal Sentience 30(18)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Lee, Kelley
(2020) Rethinking global governance to address zoonotic disease risks: Connecting the dots. Animal Sentience 30(19)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Kona-Boun, Jean-Jacques
(2020) Anthropogenic suffering of farmed animals: the other side of zoonoses. Animal Sentience 30(20)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Toates, Frederick
(2020) Covid-19, evolution, brains and psychology. Animal Sentience 30(21)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Bergstrom, Bradley J.
(2020) Re-engage with the world for global health and animal welfare. Animal Sentience 30(22)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Davis, Tyler;
Ireland, Molly E;
Van Allen, Jason;
and
Worthy, Darrell A
(2020) Zoonotic realism, computational cognitive science and pandemic prevention. Animal Sentience 30(23)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Gerlai, Robert
(2020) Tribal brains in the global village: Deeper roots of the pandemic. Animal Sentience 30(24)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Wehbe, Yzar S.
and
Shackelford, Todd K.
(2020) Appealing to human intuitions to reduce animal abuse. Animal Sentience 30(25)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Hawkins, Ronnie Z.
(2020) Thinking longer, looking deeper. Animal Sentience 30(26)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Urbanik, Julie
(2020) Reinforcing boundaries does not contribute to change. Animal Sentience 30(27)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Marazziti, Donatella
(2020) Reflections on psychological and psychiatric consequences of COVID-19 pandemic. Animal Sentience 30(28)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Figueroa, Daniela
and
Duprat, Ximena
(2020) Remedying anthropogenic zoonoses. Animal Sentience 30(29)
Commentary on Covid Crisis
Holmes, Tim Q. (2020) Impact of UK sport fishing on fish welfare and conservation. Animal Sentience 3(47)
Commentary on Key on Fish Pain