Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed
response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans …

Animals, like humans, suffer and die from natural causes. This is particularly true of animals
living in the wild, given their high exposure to, and low capacity to cope with, harmful natural …

Is it OK to lie to Siri? Is it bad to mistreat a robot for our own pleasure? Under what condition
should we grant a moral status to an artificial intelligence (AI) system? This paper looks at …

" Romantic Empiricism uncovers an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in
Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, traces its development, and …

Some authors have suggested that the All Affected Interests Principle, an influential principle
of political inclusion, requires that animals have their interests politically represented. In this …

Ethical life consists of character-driven activity in communities of mutual respect and
solidarity in shared activity. Work on this book has been a labor of love for me, one that …

When is it allowed to carry out an action that saves lives, but leads to the loss of others?
While a minority of people may deny the permissibility of such actions categorically, most will …

In August 2018, newspapers around the world reported on the case of an orca nicknamed
Tahlequah whose newborn calf died 30 minutes after birth. Tahlequah was witnessed …

The Rights of Nature movement has recently achieved significant successes in using legal
personhood as a tool for environmental protection. Perhaps most famously, the Whanganui …

Most nonhuman animals live on the terms imposed on them by human beings. This
condition of being under the mastery of another, or domination, is what republicanism …