Animals Matthew S.W. Silk | 28 Jun 2022 Is “Personhood” a Normative or Descriptive Concept? How entities get categorized is invariably a loaded determination filled with additional ethical baggage.
Animals A.G. Holdier | 7 Jun 2022 Monkeypox’s Biggest Threat Might Be to Wild Animals What responses are justified in attempting to insulate ourselves from the risk of zoonotic diseases?
The Pain of Wild Animals Is Always Bad (Part II) What kinds of pain and suffering are humans obligated to prevent? 11 Apr 2022 | Dustin Crummett
The Pain of Wild Animals Is Always Bad (Part I) Under what conditions are humans obligated to intervene to aid suffering animals? 11 Apr 2022 | Dustin Crummett
Is the Pain of Wild Animals Always Bad? Should humans intervene to prevent even the "useless pain" of animals in the wild? 11 Apr 2022 | T. Parker Haratine
Are Self-Spreading Vaccines the Solution to Potential Future Pandemics? Are the duties we have to the natural world and its inhabitants best fulfilled through programs of modification or restoration? 8 Apr 2022 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Should We Intervene to Help Wild Animals? Might humans be responsible for protecting wildlife from the torment of parasites and disease? 7 Apr 2022 | Dustin Crummett
The Pugly Truth Human-guided breeding is responsible for life-threatening deformity. 24 Feb 2022 | Daniel Burkett
Rise of the Human-Animal Hybrids: The Ethics of Xenotransplantation The jury is still out on the ethics surrounding this modern miracle. 10 Feb 2022 | Evan Arnet
Curfews and the Liberty of Cats Is it time we mount an intervention to keep our feline friends away from the night life? 13 Dec 2021 | Daniel Burkett
In Defense of Eating Dogs Are there any moral considerations separating different kinds of meat? Cultural attitudes tell us one thing, but what might consistency demand? 7 Oct 2021 | Tim Hsiao
Do Insects Matter? On what grounds might we justifiably distinguish between those with interests and those without them? 15 Sep 2021 | Dustin Crummett
Is It Time to Show the Lobster a Bit of Respect? Is an animal's experience of pain the best (only?) metric by which to justify our treatment of them? 12 Jul 2021 | Matthew S.W. Silk
The Ethics of Animal Dis-Enhancement We need to interrogate the realities that demand we sacrifice our moral ideals and live with second-best solutions. 14 Jun 2021 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Under Discussion: Can In Vitro Meat Help Fix What Cattle Ranching Has Broken? Do the harms of industrial agriculture make the switch to lab-grown meat a moral necessity? 22 Dec 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Under Discussion: Animal Dignity and Cultured Meat Does the very existence of lab-grown meat encourage us to continue to discount animal interests? 22 Dec 2020 | Benjamin Rossi
Under Discussion: Aristotelian Temperance and Cultured Meat Lab-grown meat might lessen the instances of animal cruelty, but its invention also betrays an inability to keep our appetites in check. 21 Dec 2020 | A.G. Holdier
Elephants Are People Too Under what conditions might a creature to become a rights-bearer? Who should get to decide? 10 Dec 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Moral Problems with Mink Production Is the potential threat to human life and harm done to animals enough to overcome business interests and property rights? 30 Nov 2020 | Kenneth Boyd
Pet Ownership and the Ethical Perils of Domination In what ways does our position in relation to domesticated animals place additional duties of care upon us? 23 Nov 2020 | Benjamin Rossi
Reintroducing the Gray Wolf What obligation do we have to restoring and preserving ecosystems and does that obligation extend to include predators? 11 Nov 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene
COVID-19 and Food Justice Now is the perfect time to rethink our relationship with meat — the industry behind it and the baggage that comes with it. 22 Jul 2020 | Erinn Gilson & Sarah Kenehan
