Jonathan Birch argues that the controversy about invertebrate consciousness can move forward if we adopt a theory-light approach over theory-heavy and theory-neutral approaches . Before we start, we should always level out two potential obstacles with this project. It’s important to note that the usage of animal cognition research in philosophy should be handled rigorously, given the methodological considerations discussed in part 2. Sometimes philosophers seek to indicate that animals have a property as a end result of they have a capacity, but the greatest way the capability was operationalized within the research is completely different from how the philosopher…