Animal Welfare : Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8619-9
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The thesis of this book is that members of what I shall call the “animal welfare science community,”3 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 liberationists.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law / animal liberation / animal welfare / animal welfare legislation / animal welfare science / ethics / morality / science / Sociology general / Philosophy of Science / Philosophy of Technology / Political Philosophy / Philosophy of Mind
