Project description
The inner lives of animals
What is it like to be a bee? Or a fish? Does an octopus experience pleasure, fear or pain? These are among the questions biologists and philosophers are now asking. The EU-funded ASENT project will search for answers by constructing a methodology for the science of animal sentience – an animal's subjective experience of the world and of its body. Specifically, ASENT will develop a conceptual framework for understanding how sentience varies across the animal kingdom. It will also design a scheme of proposed experimental tests for constructing a sentience profile according to species type. The project will also assess the dimensions of sentience (in terms of relevance to animal welfare and the ethical status of animals).
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Call for proposal
ERC-2019-STG
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Funding Scheme
ERC-STG - Starting GrantHost institution
WC2A 2AE London
United Kingdom
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Beneficiaries (3)
WC2A 2AE London
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TW20 0EX Egham
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E1 4NS London
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