Citation

Author Website

https://users.monash.edu/~mchou/

Commentary Type

Invited Commentary

Thread

Andrew Crump, Heather Browning, Alex Schnell, Charlotte Burn, and Jonathan Birch, Sentience in decapod crustaceans: A general framework and review of the evidence

Abstract

This commentary supports Crump et al.’s (2022) point that where risks to welfare are severe, strong evidence of sentience is sufficient to warrant protecting welfare. Crump et al.’s eight criteria for sentience are also useful. Flexible decision-making (5) and flexible behaviour (6) are consistent with Ng (1995). The concession that the “no-need-for-sentience” proposition is unnecessary also strengthens the importance of the target article’s conclusions.

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Author Biography

Yew-Kwang Ng, emeritus professor in Economics, Monash University; fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia. Markets and Morals (CUP 2019), Happiness (Springer 2022) Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1716