Category Environmental Ethics
Philosophers’ Brief on Chimpanzee Personhood
Andrew Fenton and L. Syd M Johnson report on the recent public release of an amicus brief supporting chimpanzee personhood, created by 17 philosophers as a part of the Nonhuman Rights Project’s efforts to get two captive chimpanzees to a sanctuary.
An Animal Bioethicist in Seattle
Andrew Fenton voices concerns about invisible unnecessary harm to non-human animals and a cost of ethical inconsistency.
Water, Health, & Social Justice
Shawn H.E. Harmon and Janice E. Graham advocate for a public interest approach to the governance of water.
The lure of human-animal chimera research
Andrew Fenton and Letitia Meynell call for moral reflection on the primacy of capacities for determining the moral status of non-human animals used in human-animal chimera research.
The dirt on ‘clean’ energy: #MakeMuskratRight
Debbie Martin criticizes large-scale industrial and energy developments, such as the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, that are threatening Indigenous territory.
Impact Ethics 