Sentience and the science-policy nexus: replies to Wandrey and Halina, and Bayne

Birch, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0001-7517-4759 (2025) Sentience and the science-policy nexus: replies to Wandrey and Halina, and Bayne. Mind & Language. ISSN 0268-1064

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Abstract

The edge of sentience is a book about what we should do when a decision problem forces us to draw a pragmatic line between the sentient and the non‐sentient. The commentaries from Wandrey and Halina and from Bayne analyse both my precautionary framework and my claims about specific cases. My responses start with the case of large language models (LLMs), zoom out to general issues about the science–policy relationship, then zoom in again on the case of fetuses.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) Q Science > Q Science (General)
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2025 08:45
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 12:28
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128905

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