Browning, Heather (2020) Assessing Measures of Animal Welfare. [Preprint]
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When making decisions about action to improve animal lives, it is important that we have accurate estimates of how much animals are suffering under different conditions. The current frameworks for making comparative estimates of suffering all fall along the lines of multiplying numbers of animals used by length of life and amount of suffering experienced. However, the numbers used to quantify suffering are usually generated through unreliable and subjective processes which make them unlikely to be correct. In this paper, I look at how we might apply principled methods from animal welfare science to arrive at more accurate scores, which will then help us in making the best decisions for animals. I argue that a combined use of both a whole-animal measure and a combination measurement framework for assessing welfare will give us the most accurate answers to guide our action.
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| Keywords: | animal welfare, measurement, suffering | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Heather Browning | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 May 2020 18:11 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2020 18:11 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 17144 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness |
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| Date: | 5 May 2020 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17144 |
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