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Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-Being Across Species

Editat de Bob Fischer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2024
When, if ever, is it better to spend money to improve pig welfare over chicken welfare? Which species of fish is worse off in commercial aquaculture operations? When, if ever, would humans benefit less from a policy than animals stand to lose? The answers to these questions involve making interspecies welfare comparisons-assessments of how well or poorly the members of one species are faring compared to the members of another species. It's important to answer these questions, as governments, NGOs, and private actors regularly make decisions that assume particular views about them. However, there is no accepted method for making interspecies welfare comparisons: welfare assessment tools are designed to make comparisons within species, not across them. This volume addresses this crucial gap in the literature: it proposes a methodology for making such comparisons, it puts that methodology into practice, and then reports some tentative, proof-of-concept results.This book reports the results of a collaborative, 20-month, interdisciplinary project on making interspecies welfare comparisons. It includes contributions from philosophers, neuroscientists, comparative psychologists, animal welfare scientists, and many others. Unlike many edited volumes, this book is the product of a joint enterprise with a specific, shared goal: to develop a way to make principled comparisons between courses of action that affect different kinds of animals. This book reflects the contributors' collective view about one way to achieve that goal.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Scholarship Online platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197745762
ISBN-10: 0197745768
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 148 x 212 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Never, in the fifty years in which I have been writing about ethics and animals, have I seen a project as philosophically and empirically daring as this attempt to develop a method for comparing welfare across species. Impressive and truly ground-breaking, what Fischer and his team have done has huge implications for our treatment of animals. Others will follow the trail they have blazed.
Weighing Animal Welfare, rich both in facts and normative arguments, challenges many of our intuitions regarding animals' welfare and how it can be compared between different species. The book may not be the most comfortable read. But what important work it does to shake our prejudices and pride as a human species!
Weighing Animal Welfare is the most comprehensive synthesis to date of what we know - and what we have yet to learn - about the capacity of species across the tree of life to experience pleasure and pain. This book makes a persuasive case that many more animals matter - and matter more - than many of us thought. It will serve as an essential tool for decision-makers and a helpful framework for future research into animal wellbeing.

Notă biografică

Bob Fischer is a Senior Researcher at Rethink Priorities, and Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, and the Director of the Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals. He has published widely on problems in applied ethics. His recent books include Wildlife Ethics: Animal Ethics in Wildlife Management and Conservation ( 2023; with Clare Palmer, Christian Gamborg, Jordan Hampton, and Peter Sandøe) and Animal Ethics - A Contemporary Introduction (2020). He's also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics (2020).