Weighing animal welfare : comparing well-being across species / edited by Bob Fischer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Bob (Robert William), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare--Research.

Animal welfare.

Decision making.

decision making.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The purpose of this volume is to report the results of a collaborative, 20-month, interdisciplinary project on making tradeoffs across species. I'm the editor because I was the project lead. We aren't all joint authors because some people deserve credit for certain singular contributions. Still, the project was 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 our collective view about one way to achieve that goal. And it wouldn't exist without efforts that go well beyond the authorship details of particular chapters. So, all the contributors deserve more credit than the cover suggests"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

List of Contributors

1 Introduction

1. The Problem

2. Clarifying the Problem

3. Applications

4. Some Assumptions

5. Why Some of the Assumptions Matter Less than Someone Might Think

6. The Plan for the Book

References

2 Defining Welfare Ranges

1. Introduction

2. What Welfare Ranges Are Not

3. The Modal Force of "Can"

4. Conclusion

3 Are All Welfare Ranges the Same?

2. Višak's Arguments for EQU and Why They Fail

3. What's Wrong with Relativized Views?

4. Višak's Evolutionary Argument for Bounded Hedonism and EQU

5. Conclusion

4 The (Un)Reliability of Intuitions

2. What Affects the Evidential Value of Intuitions?

3. Existing Survey Data and Intuition Pumps

5 Using Neuron Counts to Estimate Welfare Ranges

2. Which Measures Best Track the General Idea behind Neuron Counts?

3. Critically Evaluating Arguments for Neuron Counts as Proxies

4. A General Argument against Thinking Neuron Counts Are Proxies for Welfare Ranges

5. When Might Neuron Counts Be Useful?

6. Alternative Frameworks

7. Summary and Conclusions

6 Differences in the Intensity of Valenced Experience across Species

2. Measuring the Intensity of Valenced Experience

3. Cognitive Sophistication and Affective Complexity

4. The Evolutionary Role of Valenced Experience

7 A Methodology for Estimating Differences in Welfare Ranges

2. Proposed Methodology

3. Complications

8 Some Tentative Welfare Range Estimates

2. Proxies

3. Literature Review

4. Aggregation

5. The Details

6. Results

7. Comments on Key Model Choices and Uncertainties

8. Conclusion

9 Objections, Recommendations, and Conclusions

2. Questions and Objections

3. Improving our Methodology

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Weighing animal welfare

ISBN:

9780197745786

0197745784

9780197745793

0197745792

OCLC:

1461742911

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