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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMost people will grant that we bear special moral obligations toward at least some nonhuman animals that we do not bear toward inanimate objects like stones, mountains, or works of art (however priceless). These moral...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRecent debates about the biological and evolutionary conditions for sentience have generated a renewed interest in fine-grained functionalism. According to one such account advanced by Peter Godfrey-Smith, sentience...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe have various everyday measures for identifying the presence of consciousness, such as the capacity for verbal report and the intentional control of behavior. However, there are many contexts in which these measures...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper addresses what we consider to be the most pressing challenge for the emerging science of consciousness: the measurement problem of consciousness. That is, by what methods can we determine the presence of and...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition in which the experience of a traumatic event causes a series of psychiatric and behavioral symptoms such as hypervigilance, insomnia, irritability...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPeter Carruthers has recently argued for a surprising conditional: if a global workspace theory of phenomenal consciousness is both correct and fully reductive, then there are no substantive facts to discover about...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe question "are garden snails conscious?" or equivalently "is there something it's like to be a garden snail?" admits of three possible answers: yes, no, and denial that the question admits of a yes-or-no answer. All...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe best empirically grounded theory of first-personal phenomenal consciousness is global workspace theory. This, combined with the success of the phenomenal-concept strategy, means that consciousness can be fully...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe extended mind thesis prompted philosophers to think about the different shapes our minds can take as they reach beyond our brains and stretch into new technologies. Some of us rely heavily on the environment to...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIdentifying which nonhuman animal species are capable of feeling pain is important both for understanding pain mechanisms more generally and for informing animal welfare regulations, particularly in genera that are not...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn evolution, large-scale changes that involve the origin of complex new traits occur gradually, in a broad sense of the term. This principle applies to the origin of subjective or felt experience. I respond to...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAffective experience in nonhuman animals is of great interest for both theoretical and practical reasons. This paper highlights research by the psychologists Anthony Dickinson and Bernard Balleine which provides...