Humans interact with animals in numerous ways and on numerous levels. We are indeed
living in an “animal” s world,'in the sense that our lives are very much intertwined with the …

Is there something distinctive about humanity that justifies the idea that humans have moral
status while non-humans do not? Providing an answer to this question has become …

Anthropocentric bias and ignorance limit our ability to conceive just ways of living with
nonhuman animals, especially farmed animals. We need to learn from animals themselves …

Simple Summary There is an ongoing debate on the ethics of keeping animals in captivity
and particularly as to whether freedom matters to their welfare. Freedom is a continuum, and …

Philosophical attention to animals can be found in a wide range of texts throughout the
history of philosophy, including discussions of animal classification in Aristotle and Ibn Bâjja …

Animal Politics, ie the study of human-animal relations in Political Theory, is a relative
newcomer to the portfolio of Animal Studies. While other academic disciplines, from Cultural …

What distinguishes constraints on our actions that make us unfree (in the sociopolitical
sense) from those that make us merely unable? I provide a new account: roughly, a …

Can animals be agents? Do they want to be free? Can they have meaningful lives? If so,
should we change the way we treat them? This paper offers an account of animal agency …

Urban animals can benefit from living in cities, but this also makes them vulnerable as they
increasingly depend on the advantages of urban life. This article has two aims. First, I …

Among animal advocates, it is a widely held belief that liberty has exclusively instrumental
value for sentient non-human animals (henceforth merely 'animals'). Accounts that include …