Positive Wild Animal Welfare.

IF 1.7 1区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Biology & Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1007/s10539-023-09901-5
Heather Browning, Walter Veit
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With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state dominated by suffering. This assumption is now taken on board by many and frames much of the current discussion; but needs a more critical assessment, both theoretically and empirically. In this paper, we challenge the primary lines of evidence employed in support of wild animal suffering, to provide an alternative picture in which wild animals may often have lives that are far more positive than is commonly assumed. Nevertheless, while it is useful to have an alternative model to challenge unexamined assumptions, our real emphasis in this paper is the need for the development of effective methods for applying animal welfare science in the wild, including new means of data collection, the ability to determine the extent and scope of welfare challenges and opportunities, and their effects on welfare. Until such methods are developed, discussions of wild animal welfare cannot go beyond trading of intuitions, which as we show here can just as easily go in either direction.

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积极的野生动物福利。
随着人们对野生动物福利和伦理的日益关注,将野生动物描绘成一种以痛苦为主导的状态已成为一种普遍现象。这一假设现在被许多人接受,并构成了当前讨论的大部分框架;但在理论上和经验上都需要更严格的评估。在本文中,我们挑战了支持野生动物遭受痛苦的主要证据线,以提供另一种图景,即野生动物可能经常比通常假设的生活积极得多。然而,虽然有一个替代模型来挑战未经检验的假设是有用的,但我们在本文中真正强调的是需要开发有效的方法来在野外应用动物福利科学,包括新的数据收集手段,确定福利挑战和机遇的程度和范围的能力,以及它们对福利的影响。在这些方法被开发出来之前,关于野生动物福利的讨论不能超越直觉交易,正如我们在这里展示的那样,直觉交易可以很容易地走向任何一个方向。
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Biology & Philosophy
Biology & Philosophy 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学
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4.10
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8.00%
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48
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Recent decades have witnessed fascinating and controversial advances in the biological sciences. This journal answers the need for meta-theoretical analysis, both about the very nature of biology, as well as about its social implications. Biology and Philosophy is aimed at a broad readership, drawn from both the sciences and the humanities. The journal subscribes to no specific school of biology, nor of philosophy, and publishes work from authors of all persuasions and all disciplines. The editorial board reflects this attitude in its composition and its world-wide membership. Each issue of Biology and Philosophy carries one or more discussions or comparative reviews, permitting the in-depth study of important works and topics.
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