Animal sentience [0.03%]
动物意识
Heather Browning,Jonathan Birch
Heather Browning
'Sentience' sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to the capacity to have subjective experiences with a positive or negative valence, such as pain or pleasure. We review recent controversies r...
Sara Goering,Timothy Brown,Eran Klein
Sara Goering
Novel neurotechnologies, like deep brain stimulation and brain-computer interface, offer great hope for treating, curing, and preventing disease, but raise important questions about effects these devices may have on human identity, authenti...
Thomas Pölzler,Jennifer Cole Wright
Thomas Pölzler
Lay persons may have intuitions about morality's objectivity. What do these intuitions look like? And what are their causes and consequences? In recent years, an increasing number of scholars have begun to investigate these questions empiri...
Lisa Bortolotti,Kengo Miyazono
Lisa Bortolotti
In this paper we review two debates in the current literature on clinical delusions. One debate is about what delusions are. If delusions are beliefs, why are they described as failing to play the causal roles that characterise beliefs, suc...
Joshua Shepherd
Joshua Shepherd
Here, I review work from three lines of research in cognitive science often taken to threaten free will and moral responsibility. This work concerns conscious deciding, the experience of acting, and the role of largely unnoticed situational...
Nicholas Shea
Nicholas Shea
This paper sets out a view about the explanatory role of representational content and advocates one approach to naturalising content - to giving a naturalistic account of what makes an entity a representation and in virtue of what it has th...