Foundations of Animal Sentience

Project Information

ASENT

Grant agreement ID: 851145

DOI 10.3030/851145

EC signature date 7 October 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 30 June 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 864,00

EU contribution € 1 499 864,00

Coordinated by

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Non-peer reviewed articles (6)

Neural organoids and the precautionary principle

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan; Browning, Heather
Published in: American Journal of Bioethics, Issue 21, 2021, Page(s) 56-58, ISSN 1526-5161
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1845858

Sentience and the science-policy interface

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan
Published in: Animal Sentience, Issue 6, 2022, Page(s) 10, ISSN 2377-7478
Publisher: Wellbeing International
DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1718

Animal sentience science and policy

Author(s): Crump, Andrew
Published in: Animal Sentience, Issue 6, 2022, Page(s) 15, ISSN 2377-7478
Publisher: WellBeing International
DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1748

The learning-consciousness connection

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan; Ginsburg, Simona; Jablonka, Eva
Published in: Biology & Philosophy, Issue 36, 2021, Page(s) 49, ISSN 0169-3867
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-021-09802-5

Separating conscious and unconscious perception in animals

Author(s): Crump, Andrew; Birch, Jonathan
Published in: Learning & Behavior, Issue 49, 2021, Page(s) 347-348, ISSN 1543-4494
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-021-00479-0

The lights and shadows of consciousness

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan; Crump, Andrew
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 32, 2022, Page(s) R759-R761, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.055

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Freedom and animal welfare

Author(s): Browning, Heather; Veit, Walter
Published in: Animals, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 1148, ISSN 2076-2615
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ani11041148

Optimism and pasture access in dairy cows

Author(s): Crump, A.; Jenkins, K.; Bethell, E .J.; Ferris, C. P.; Kabboush, H.; Weller, J.; Arnott, G.
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 4882, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-84371-x

Unlimited Associative Learning and the origins of consciousness: a primer and some predictions

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan; Ginsburg, Simona; Jablonka, Eva
Published in: Biology & Philosophy, Issue 35, 2020, Page(s) 6, ISSN 0169-3867
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-020-09772-0

The sentience shift in animal research

Author(s): Browning, Heather; Veit, Walter
Published in: The New Bioethics, 2022, ISSN 2050-2877
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/20502877.2022.2077681

The search for invertebrate consciousness

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan
Published in: Noûs, Issue 56, 2022, Page(s) 133-153, ISSN 0029-4624
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
DOI: 10.1111/nous.12351

Animal consciousness: The interplay of neural and behavioural evidence.

Author(s): Crump, Andrew; Birch, Jonathan
Published in: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Issue 29, 2022, Page(s) 104-128, ISSN 1355-8250
Publisher: Imprint Academic

Pasture access and eye temperature in dairy cows

Author(s): Crump, Andrew; Jenkins, Kirsty; Bethell, Emily J.; Ferris, Conrad P.; Arnott, Gareth
Published in: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2022, ISSN 1088-8705
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2022.2063020

The hatching of consciousness

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan
Published in: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Issue 43, 2021, Page(s) 121, ISSN 0391-9714
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1007/s40656-021-00472-w

The measurability of subjective animal welfare

Author(s): Browning, Heather
Published in: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Issue 29, 2022, Page(s) 150-179, ISSN 1355-8250
Publisher: Imprint Academic

The measurement problem of consciousness

Author(s): Browning, Heather; Veit, Walter
Published in: Philosophical Topics, Issue 48, 2020, Page(s) 85-108, ISSN 0276-2080
Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20204815

The importance of end-of-life welfare

Author(s): Browning, Heather; Veit, Walter
Published in: Animal Frontiers, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 8-15, ISSN 2160-6056
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/af/vfab078

Dimensions of animal consciousness

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan; Schnell, Alexandra K.; Clayton, Nicola S.
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 24, 2020, Page(s) P789-801, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.07.007

Emotion in animal contests

Author(s): Crump, A.; Bethell, E. J.; Earley, R.; Lee, V. E.; Mendl, M.; Oldham, L.; Turner, S. P.; Arnott, G.
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, Issue 287, 2020, Page(s) 20201715, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1715

Global workspace theory and animal consciousness

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan
Published in: Philosophical Topics, Issue 48, 2020, Page(s) 21-37, ISSN 0276-2080
Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20204812

Materialism and the moral status of animals

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan
Published in: The Philosophical Quarterly, 2022, ISSN 1467-9213
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqab072

Should animal welfare be defined in terms of consciousness?

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan
Published in: Philosophy of Science, 2022, ISSN 0031-8248
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2022.59

How should we study animal consciousness scientifically?

Author(s): Birch, Jonathan; Broom, Donald M.; Browning, Heather; Crump, Andrew; Ginsburg, Simona; Halina, Marta; Harrison, David; Jablonka, Eva; Lee, Andrew Y.; Kammerer, François; Klein, Colin; Lamme, Victor; Michel, Matthias; Wemelsfelder, Françoise; Zacks, Oryan
Published in: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Issue 29, 2022, Page(s) 8-28, ISSN 1355-8250
Publisher: Imprint Academic

Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence.

Author(s): Crump, Andrew; Browning, Heather; Schnell, Alexandra; Burn, Charlotte; Birch, Jonathan
Published in: Animal Sentience, Issue 7, 2022, Page(s) 1, ISSN 2377-7478
Publisher: Wellbeing International
DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1691

Perspectival pluralism for animal welfare

Author(s): Veit, Walter; Browning, Heather
Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 1879-4912
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-020-00322-9

Animal sentience

Author(s): Browning, Heather; Birch, Jonathan
Published in: Philosophy Compass, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) e12822, ISSN 1747-9991
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12822

Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees

Author(s): Gibbons, M.; Versace, E.; Crump, A.; Baran, B.; Chittka, L.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Issue 119, 2022, Page(s) e2205821119, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205821119

Evolutionary biology meets consciousness: essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul

Author(s): Browning, Heather; Veit, Walter
Published in: Biology & Philosophy, Issue 36, 2021, Page(s) 5, ISSN 0169-3867
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-021-09781-7

Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science

Author(s): Veit, Walter; Browning, Heather
Published in: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2021, ISSN 1088-8705
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2021.2014838