Animal Welfare Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Haynes, Richard P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethics.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of Technology.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of Mind.

Members of the “animal welfare science community”, which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than the more “sentimental” account given by animal l...