Perspectival pluralism for animal welfare

Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2021) Perspectival pluralism for animal welfare. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11 (1). ISSN 1879-4912

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Abstract

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 describes 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.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.springer.com/journal/13194
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2020 16:42
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2024 01:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106713

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