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http://personal.lse.ac.uk/birchj1/

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Jonathan Birch, Animal sentience and the precautionary principle

Abstract

I respond to commentaries by Elwood and Seth & Dienes and to a recent critique by Diggles, discussing the link between avoidance learning and sentience, the relevance of the clash between frequentist and Bayesian statistics, the risks to decapod welfare in aquaculture, and the broader concerns one may have about a “precautionary” approach to protecting invertebrates.

Author Biography

Jonathan Birch is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, specializing in the philosophy of biology. His book The Philosophy of Social Evolution was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1377