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Studying Animal Feelings: Integrating Sentience Research and Welfare Science

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The goal of this article is to bring together two fields of research — animal sentience research and animal welfare science — with the aim of advancing our understanding of animal emotions, especially their subjectively experienced or 'felt' component (feelings). While these two research areas share a common interest in animal feelings, they have had surprisingly little interaction. In this paper, we make a call for the integration of these fields and outline some of the ways in which work done in each of these areas can inform and benefit the other, such as strengthening the theoretical and conceptual bases of both fields, and sharing methods used by each, advocating further future collaboration for the benefit of both disciplines.

Keywords: ANIMAL; ANIMAL AFFECT; ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONS; FEELINGS; SENTIENCE

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK 2: Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK

Publication date: January 1, 2023

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