Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve
some level of moral concern. Within philosophy, the Ethic of Life has been clarified …

In order to determine whether current (or future) machines have a welfare that we as agents
ought to take into account in our moral deliberations, we must determine which capacities …

Some breeding technology applications are claimed to improve animal welfare: this includes
potential applications of genomics and genome editing to improve animals' resistance to …

The purpose of this essay is to raise the prospect that engaging in artificial consciousness
research, research that aims to create artifactual entities with conscious states of certain …

The meteoric rise of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology has ignited discussions of
engineering agricultural animals to improve their welfare. While some have proposed …

There is almost no theoretical discussion of non‐human animal well‐being in the
philosophical literature on well‐being. To begin to rectify this, I develop a desire satisfaction …

Those who wish to abolish or restrict the use of non-human animals in so-called factory
farming and/or experimentation often argue that these animal use practices are …

This paper follows directly from our forthcoming paper in International Journal of Machine
Consciousness, where we discuss the requirements for an artefact to be a moral agent and …

Was bedeutet es, dass es einem Tier gut geht? Empirische Untersuchungen aus
Agrarwissenschaft und Veterinärmedizin können diese Frage nur unzureichend …

During the last couple of years, two parallel developments have become apparent. On the
one hand an increasing public concern for the welfare of animals, especially those used in …