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Editorial: Concepts of Animal Welfare

Editorial: Concepts of Animal Welfare Acta Biotheor (2011) 59:93–103 DOI 10.1007/s10441-011-9134-0 EDITORIAL • • Kristin Hagen Ruud Van den Bos Tjard de Cock Buning Received: 20 April 2011 / Accepted: 25 April 2011 / Published online: 6 May 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Four of the papers (by Donald Broom, Lennart Nordenfelt, Kirsten Schmidt and Christine Leeb) in this issue of Acta Biotheoretica stem from a symposium on the theme ,,Concepts of animal welfare—interdisciplinary perspectives’’ that was held on 8–9 October 2009 in Bad Neuenahr (Germany), organised by the Europa ¨ische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler GmbH. The papers by Richard Haynes as well as by Sjaak Swart and Jozef Keulartz were invited in addition. The aim of the symposium and of this issue of Acta Biotheoretica has been to bring together experts representing animal welfare science, philosophy and social sciences in order to discuss how philosophical analysis and explication of scientific terminology, concepts and theory may support the further development of animal welfare science; this in light of the broad use of the animal welfare concept in animal ethics, society and legislation. This issue of Acta Biotheoretica is thus a contribution to the current theoretical debate on http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Biotheoretica Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Subject
Philosophy; Evolutionary Biology; Philosophy of Biology
ISSN
0001-5342
eISSN
1572-8358
DOI
10.1007/s10441-011-9134-0
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21547567
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Acta Biotheor (2011) 59:93–103 DOI 10.1007/s10441-011-9134-0 EDITORIAL • • Kristin Hagen Ruud Van den Bos Tjard de Cock Buning Received: 20 April 2011 / Accepted: 25 April 2011 / Published online: 6 May 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Four of the papers (by Donald Broom, Lennart Nordenfelt, Kirsten Schmidt and Christine Leeb) in this issue of Acta Biotheoretica stem from a symposium on the theme ,,Concepts of animal welfare—interdisciplinary perspectives’’ that was held on 8–9 October 2009 in Bad Neuenahr (Germany), organised by the Europa ¨ische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler GmbH. The papers by Richard Haynes as well as by Sjaak Swart and Jozef Keulartz were invited in addition. The aim of the symposium and of this issue of Acta Biotheoretica has been to bring together experts representing animal welfare science, philosophy and social sciences in order to discuss how philosophical analysis and explication of scientific terminology, concepts and theory may support the further development of animal welfare science; this in light of the broad use of the animal welfare concept in animal ethics, society and legislation. This issue of Acta Biotheoretica is thus a contribution to the current theoretical debate on

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Published: May 6, 2011

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