"What if Klein & Barron are right about insect sentience?" by Bob Fischer

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Fischer, Bob (2016) What if Klein & Barron are right about insect sentience?. Animal Sentience 9(8)

Author Website

http://www.bobfischer.net

Commentary Type

Open Commentary

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Colin Klein and Andrew B. Barron, Insects have the capacity for subjective experience

Abstract

If Klein & Barron are right, then insects may well be able to feel pain. If they can, then the standard approach to animal ethics generates some implausible results. Philosophers need to develop alternatives to this framework to avoid them.

Author Biography

Bob Fischer, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University, works on animal ethics and the epistemology of modality, and is co-director the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals.http://www.bobfischer.net

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1138

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