No we are not “moral animals,” we are moral humans, and there is a difference. We are a kind of animal, specifically we are primates, and share much with other social mammals. We are a particular kind ...

When my now-wife and I were on our first date, she asked me what part of our everyday lives our grandkids would find morally ...

In March, the New York Times' Ethicist column asked: Is it ethical for humans to eat meat? As omnivores, human beings have always relied on meat as a significant source of nutrition. Evidence of ...

Preface: into the wild -- Morality in animal societies: an embarrassment of riches -- Foundations for wild justice: what animals do and what it means -- Cooperation: reciprocating rats and ...

In 1971, a half-dozen graduate students at Oxford University held what was perhaps the first protest of the modern animal rights movement. They insisted that respecting animals was a moral imperative.

"In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, ...