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Invertebrate Sentience: The Evidence and Its Implications book cover

1st Edition

Invertebrate Sentience The Evidence and Its Implications

Edited By Eva Read, Jonathan Birch Copyright 2027
224 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As far back as Jeremy Bentham, philosophers have proposed sentience, especially pain, as the line that determines which animals deserve moral consideration. In recent decades, such thinking has led to a global trend of welfare legislation recognising animals as sentient beings. In the United Kingdom, cephalopod molluscs (octopods, cuttlefish, and squid) and decapod crustaceans (crabs, lobsters,... Read more

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Foreword Nicola S. Clayton

1. Introduction and Framework Jonathan Birch, Andrew Crump, and Eva Read

1.1. Beyond line-drawing in debates about sentience

1.2. A focus on invertebrates

1.3. A focus on pain – for now

1.4. Sentience is difficult to study

1.5. Assessment criteria past and present

1.6. Applying the criteria in practice

Bibliography

2. Decapod Crustaceans Andrew Crump, Heather Browning, Alexandra Schnell, Charlotte Burn, and Jonathan Birch

2.1. Evidence

2.2. Welfare risks and mitigation strategies

Bibliography

3. Insects Matilda Gibbons, Andrew Crump, Meghan Barrett, Sajedeh Sarlak, Jonathan Birch, and Lars Chittka

3.1. Evidence

3.2. Welfare risks and mitigation strategies

Bibliography

4. Cephalopod Molluscs Alexandra Schnell, Heather Browning, Andrew Crump, Charlotte Burn, and Jonathan Birch

4.1. Evidence

4.2. Welfare risks and mitigation strategies

Bibliography

5. Gastropod Molluscs Sarah Dalesman, Jack Olive, and Katherine Sloman

5.1. Evidence

5.2. Welfare risks and mitigation strategies

Bibliography

6. The Future for Invertebrate Welfare Jonathan Birch

6.1. Invertebrate farming

6.2. Invertebrates in science

6.3. Invertebrates in the wild.

Index

Biography

Eva Read is a Research Associate at The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience, LSE, UK. She took her PhD in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, as part of the Foundations of Animal Sentience (ASENT) project. Her research focuses on philosophical questions in animal welfare science.

Jonathan Birch is a Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK, and Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.

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