Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2020) Perspectival pluralism for animal welfare. [Preprint]
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Animal welfare has a long history of disregard. While in recent decades the study of animal welfare has become a scientific discipline of its own, the difficulty of measuring animal welfare can still be vastly underestimated. There are three primary theories, or perspectives, on animal welfare - biological functioning, natural living and affective state. These come with their own diverse methods of measurement, each providing a limited perspective on an aspect of welfare. This paper argues for a perspectival pluralist account of animal welfare, in which all three theoretical perspectives and their multiple measures are necessary to understand this complex phenomenon and provide a full picture of animal welfare. This in turn will offer us a better understanding of perspectivism and pluralism itself.
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| Keywords: | perspectivism; models; pluralism; methodological anarchism; animal welfare | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Natural Kinds Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Walter Veit | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2022 03:47 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2023 21:42 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 20338 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Natural Kinds Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Date: | 2020 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20338 |
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