Research

All my publications, with the exception of books, can be downloaded below.

Books

  1. Browning, H. and Veit, W. (Forthcoming November 2024). What Are Zoos For? Bristol University Press. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-are-zoos-for
  1. Veit, W. (2023). A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy-for-the-Science-of-Animal-Consciousness/Veit/p/book/9781032343617 [Download preview]

Other Publications

2024

  1. Terrill, E.C. & Veit, W. (2024). Better to be a Pig Dissatisfied than a Plant Satisfied. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 37, 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-024-09922-4 [Download]
  1. Schlaile, M.P., Veit, W., & Boudry, M. (2024). Memes. In K. Dopfer, R.R. Nelson, J. Potts, & A. Pyka (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Economics. London: Routledge, pp. 235-248. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429398971-20 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2024). Book review: Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves. Ethics. 134 (3): 443-447. https://doi.org/10.1086/728630 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. and Browning, H. (2024). Feminism and Enhancement. Routledge Handbook of Feminism and Technology. London: Routledge, pp. 37-55. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003275992-4 [Download]

2023

  1. Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2023). Neural networks, AI, and the goals of modeling. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E411. https://10.1017/S0140525X23001681 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. and Veit, W. (2023). Studying Introspection in Animals and AIs. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 30 (9):63-74. https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.30.9.063 [Download]
  1. Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2023). Evolutionary mismatch and anomalies in the memory system. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E381. https://10.1017/S0140525X23000183 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. and Veit, W. (2023). The welfare of brain organoids. Molecular Psychology: Brain, Behavior, and Society. 2(4): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.12688/molpsychol.17523.1 [Download]
  1. Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2023). Puritanical morality and the scaffolded evolution of self-control. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E319. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23000535 [Download]
  1. Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2023). Defending sentientism. AJOB Neuroscience, 14(2), 168-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2023.2188292 [Download]
  1. Browning, H., & Veit, W. (2023). Regulating possibly sentient human cerebral organoids. AJOB Neuroscience, 14(2), 197-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2023.2188293 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. and Veit, W. (2023). Studying animal feelings: Bringing together sentience research and welfare science. Journal of Consciousness Science. 30(7-8): 196-222. https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.30.7.196 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2023). Model Anarchism. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.23849 [Download]
  1. Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2023). The design space of human communication and the nonevolution of ideography. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E255. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23000754 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2023). Two Kinds of Biological Normativity. Teorema. 42(1), 77-100. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/8951311.pdf [Download]
  1. Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2023). Polygenic scores and social science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E229. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002345 [Download]
  1. Anomaly, J., Browning, H., Fleischman, D., and Veit, W. (2023). Flesh Without Blood: The Public Health Benefits of Lab‐Grown Meat. Bioethical Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10254-7 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. and Veit, W. (2023). Positive Wild Animal Welfare. Biology & Philosophy, 38, 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-023-09901-5 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2023). Evolutionary Game Theory and Interdisciplinary Integration. Croatian Journal of Philosophy. 23(67), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.52685/cjp.23.67.2 [Download]
  1. Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2023). Social robots and the intentional stance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22001595 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. and Veit, W. (2023). Optimism about measuring animal feelings. Asian Bioethics Review, 15, 351–355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-023-00244-7 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2023). Moral Awareness and Animal Welfare. Animal Welfare, 32, e39, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1017/awf.2023.33 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2023). The Scaffolded Evolution of Human Communication. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. E17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2200070X [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2023). Defending the Pathological Complexity Thesis. Biological Theory, 18, 200–209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-023-00430-8 [Download]
  1. Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2023). Hominin life history, pathological complexity, and the evolution of anxiety. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22001923 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2023). Health, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Subjects. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03998-z [Download]

2022

  1. Veit, W. (2022). Health, Agency, and the Evolution of Consciousness. Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29836 [Download]
  1. Veit W. & Browning, H. (2022). Darwinian and Autopoietic Views of the Organism. Constructivist Foundations, 18(1): 103–105. https://constructivist.info/18/1/103 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2022). Integrating Evolution into the Study of Animal Sentience. Animal Sentience, 32(30). https://doi.org/10.1007/10.51291/2377-7478.1765 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2022). On the Evolutionary Origins of the Bifocal Stance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22001273 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2022). Confidence Levels or Degrees of Sentience? Asian Bioethics Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-022-00230-5 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2022). Autism and the Preference for Imaginary Worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E279. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21002211 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2022). Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness. Biological Theory. [TARGET ARTICLE] https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00407-z [Download]
  1. Veit, W. and Browning, H. (2022). Life, Mind, Agency: Why Markov Blankets Fail the Test of Evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E214. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000115 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2022). Towards a Comparative Study of Animal Consciousness. Biological Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00409-x [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2022). The Origins of Consciousness or the War of the Five Dimensions. Biological Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00408-y [Download]
  1. Veit, W. and Browning, H. (2022). Pathological Complexity and the Evolution of Sex Differences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E149, pp. 57-58. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000498 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2022). Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness. Philosophy of Science. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/psa.2022.26 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2022). The Sentience Shift in Animal Research. The New Bioethics. https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2022.2077681 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2022). Revisiting the Intentionality All-Stars. Review of Analytic Philosophy, 2(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.RAP.2022.0009 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2022). More than Zombies: Considering the Animal Subject in De-Extinction. Ethics, Policy & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2022.2071552 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2022). Consciousness, Complexity, and Evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E61, pp. 47-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21001825 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2022). The importance of end-of-life welfare. Animal Frontiers. 12(1), 8–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfab078 [Download]
  1. Ortmann, J. & Veit, W. (2022). Theory Roulette: Choosing that Climate Change is not a Tragedy of the Commons. Environmental Values, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327122X16452897197784 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2022). The Desperate Search for Meaning in Life. In  Cotton, C. & Winters, A.M. (eds.) Neon Genesis Evangelion and Philosophy, pp. 3-12. Chicago, Illinois: Carus Books. [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2022). Has the Socio-Political Role of Neuroethics Been Neglected? AJOB Neuroscience. VOL. 13, NO. 1, 23-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2021.2001079 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2022). On the Relevance of Experimental Philosophy to Neuroethics. AJOB Neuroscience. VOL. 13, NO. 1, 55-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2021.2001080 [Download]

2021

  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2021). Developmental Programming, Evolution, and Animal Welfare: A Case for Evolutionary Veterinary Science. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2021.2014838 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). Experimental Philosophy of Medicine and the Concepts of Health and Disease. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-021-09550-3 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). The Evolution of Knowledge during the Cambrian Explosion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e47. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000771 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2021). Utilitarian Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Non-Pandemic Diseases. American Journal of Bioethics. 21(12), 39-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2021.1991035 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). Scaffolding Natural Selection. Biological Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00387-6  [Download]
  1. Veit, W., Earp, B.D., Browning, H., & Savulescu, J. (2021). Evaluating Tradeoffs between Autonomy and Wellbeing in Supported Decision Making. American Journal of Bioethics. 21(11), 21-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2021.1980134 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2021). Does utilitarianism need a rethink? Review of Louis Narens and Brian Skyrms’ The Pursuit of Happiness. Journal of Economic Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2021.1985755 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2021). Ethics of Mixed Martial Arts. In Holt, J. & Ramsay, M. (Ed.), The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagon, pp. 134-149. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003122395-12 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). Samir Okasha’s Philosophy. Lato Sensu: Revue De La Société De Philosophie Des Sciences 8 (3), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.20416/LSRSPS.V8I3.1 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). Agential Thinking. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03380-5 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2021). Extending animal welfare science to include wild animals. Animal Sentience 31(1), pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1675 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Ney, M. (2021). Metaphors in Arts and Science. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 11(44). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00351-y [Download]
  1. Veit, W., Anomaly, J., Agar, N., Singer, P., Fleischman, D.S., & Minerva, F. (2021). Can ‘eugenics’ be defended? Monash Bioethics Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-021-00129-1 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Spurrett, D. (2021). Evolving Resolve. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44, E56. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001041 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2021). Freedom and Animal Welfare. Animals. 11(4), 1148. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11041148 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). Review of Nancy Cartwright’s Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better. Philosophy of Science 88(2), 366-369. https://doi.org/10.1086/711505 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). Model Diversity and the Embarrassment of Riches. Journal of Economic Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2021.1898660 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2021). Phenomenology Applied to Animal Health and Suffering. In S. Ferrarello (Ed.), Phenomenology of Bioethics: Technoethics and Lived-Experience, pp. 73-88. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65613-3_6 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). Does Birth Matter? Journal of Medical Ethics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-107034 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2021). Evolutionary Biology Meets Consciousness: Essay Review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul. Biology & Philosophy, 36(5). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09781-7 [Download]
  1. Earp, B.D., et al. (2021). Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs. The American Journal of Bioethics 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1861364 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2021). Biological Normativity: A New Hope for Naturalism? Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-020-09993-w [Download]

2020

  1. Veit, W., Brown, R. & Earp, B.D. (2020). In science we trust? Being honest about the limits of medical research during COVID-19. American Journal of Bioethics. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1845861 [Download]
  1. Chapman, R. & Veit, W. (2020). “The essence of autism: fact or artefact?” Molecular Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-00959-1 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2020). Perspectival pluralism for animal welfare. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11(9). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00322-9 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2020). Dennett and Spinoza. Australasian Philosophical Review. 4(3), 259–265. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2021.1962653 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Browning, H. (2020). Why Socio-Political Beliefs Trump Individual Morality: An Evolutionary Perspective. AJOB Neuroscience, 11(4), 290-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2020.1830879 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2020). Is Humane Slaughter Possible? Animals, 10(5), 799. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10050799 [Download]
  1. Veit, W., Earp, B.D., Faber, N., Bostrom, N., Caouette, J., Mannino, A., Caviola, L., Sandberg, A. & Savulescu, J. (2020). Recognizing the Diversity of Cognitive Enhancements. AJOB Neuroscience, 11(4), 250-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2020.1830878 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2020). Confined Freedom and Free Confinement: The Ethics of Captivity in Life of Pi. In Á. T. Bogár and R. S. Szigethy (Eds.), Critical Insights: Life of Pi, 119–134. Salem Press. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27969.38246/1 [Download]
  1. Veit, W., Savulescu, J., Hunter, D., Earp, B.D. & Wilkinson, D. (2020). Are Generational Welfare Trades Always Unjust? The American Journal of Bioethics 20(9), 70-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1795532 [Download]
  1. New England Anti-Vivisection Society, American Anti-Vivisection Society, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, The Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, J. Jacquet, B. Franks, J. Pungor, J. Mather, P. Godfrey-Smith, L. Marino, G. Barord, C. Safina, H. Browning, and W. Veit (2020). Petition to Include Cephalopods as “Animals” Deserving of Humane Treatment under the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Clinic, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27522.30401 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. & Huebner, B. (2020). Drawing the boundaries of animal sentience. Animal Sentience 29(13). http://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1595 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2020). Improving invertebrate welfare. Animal Sentience 29(4). http://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1585 [Download]
  1. Chapman, R. & Veit, W. (2020). Representing the Autism Spectrum. The American Journal of Bioethics 20(4), 46–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1730495 [Download]
  1. Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2020). The Measurement Problem of Consciousness. Philosophical Topics. 48(1), 85-108. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics20204815 [Download]

2019

  1. Veit, W., Dewhurst, J., Dołega, K., Jones, M., Stanley, S., Frankish, K. & Dennett, D.C. (2019). The Rationale of Rationalization – Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43, e53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002164 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2019). Model Pluralism. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 50(2), 91–114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393119894897 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2019). Modeling Morality. In L. Magnani, A. Nepomuceno, F. Salguero, C. Barés and M. Fontane (eds), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology, Springer, 83-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32722-4_6 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2019). Evolution of multicellularity: cheating done right. Biology & Philosophy, 34(34). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-019-9688-9 [Download]

2018

  1. Veit, W. (2018). Existential Nihilism: The Only Really Serious Philosophical Problem. Journal of Camus Studies 2018, 211-236. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.26965.24804 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2018). Enhancement Technologies and Inequality. In Saborido, C., Oms, S. & González de Prado, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the IX Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 471-476. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21932.08326 [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2018). Cognitive Enhancement and the Threat of Inequality. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 2, 404–410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-018-0108-x [Download]
  1. Veit, W. (2018). Procreative Beneficence and Genetic Enhancement. KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy 32(1), 75-92. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11026.89289 [Download]