Abstract
Four of the papers (by Donald Broom, Lennart Nordenfelt, Kirsten Schmidt andChristine Leeb) in this issue of Acta Biotheoretica stem from a symposium on thetheme ,,Concepts of animal welfare—interdisciplinary perspectives’’ that was heldon 8–9 October 2009 in Bad Neuenahr (Germany), organised by the Europa¨ischeAkademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer EntwicklungenBad Neuenahr Ahrweiler GmbH. The papers by Richard Haynes as well as by SjaakSwart and Jozef Keulartz were invited in addition.The aim of the symposium and of this issue of Acta Biotheoretica has been tobring together experts representing animal welfare science, philosophy and socialsciences in order to discuss how philosophical analysis and explication of scientificterminology, concepts and theory may support the further development of animalwelfare science; this in light of the broad use of the animal welfare concept inanimal ethics, society and legislation. This issue of Acta Biotheoretica is thus acontribution to the current theoretical debate on animal welfare science. The focus ison the relationship between the historical as well as practical political context andnormative content of the animal welfare concept.
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