Animals Daniel Story | 24 Oct 2022 Creepy-Crawlies and the Long Dreamless Sleep What does death mean to an insect and a life lived in moments?
Animals Daniel Burkett | 12 Oct 2022 On the Morality of Squashing Lanternflies By any means? Even invasive bugs deserve moral consideration.
On the Morality of Declawing Cats What's behind the recent legislative push to ban the procedure? 11 Oct 2022 | Daniel Burkett
The Smithfield Piglet Case: Factory Farms and Civil Disobedience Maintaining a clean conscience means "that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn." 10 Oct 2022 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Trophy Hunting Is Immoral Only If Hunting for Meat Is Immoral Splitting hairs? Why shouldn't both practices elicit the same moral response? 7 Oct 2022 | Daniel Story
Meat Replacements and the Logic of the Larder Some justifications for carnivorous behavior offer very little meat. 6 Oct 2022 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Why Speciesism Is Not a Prejudice Speciesism and racism have much less in common than we typically assume. 5 Oct 2022 | Benjamin Rossi
Wanted Dead: Should We Place Bounties on Invasive Species? Do "invaders," like the green iguana, deserve to be destroyed? 4 Oct 2022 | Nicholas Kreuder
The Painful Truth About Insects What happens when we discover that even mosquitos have interests? 3 Oct 2022 | Daniel Burkett
Reasons and Elephants (and Persons) 'Beast' or 'being'? How do we justify the bright line we draw determining legal protection? 12 Sep 2022 | A.G. Holdier
Climate Change and the Defense of Ignorance Old news? Can the "furnaces of the world" really claim they didn't know any better? 2 Sep 2022 | Daniel Burkett
The Animal Ethics of OrganEx Can we justify the deliberate slaughter of animal subjects when available alternatives exist? 19 Aug 2022 | Richard Gibson
Is 8 Billion People Too Many? Too Few? Our dated discourse on scarcity and population growth stands in need of revision. 16 Aug 2022 | Evan Arnet
Private Jets and Carbon Emissions – Too Swift to Judge? Beware: pointing a finger is often just another way of avoiding blame. 8 Aug 2022 | Daniel Burkett
Gene Drives and the Desire for Control The impulse to know, command, and master remains pervasive as ever. 26 Jul 2022 | Richard Gibson
Insurance, Natural Disasters, and the Relevance of Luck How do we determine those who deserve more than a mere helping hand? 21 Jul 2022 | Daniel Burkett
Is “Personhood” a Normative or Descriptive Concept? How entities get categorized is invariably a loaded determination filled with additional ethical baggage. 28 Jun 2022 | Matthew S.W. Silk
Monkeypox’s Biggest Threat Might Be to Wild Animals What responses are justified in attempting to insulate ourselves from the risk of zoonotic diseases? 7 Jun 2022 | A.G. Holdier
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