An investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and
autonomous machines of our own making. One of the enduring concerns of moral …

It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer
gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they …

Decades of tourism research have allowed researchers to understand the myriad social,
ecological, and economic impacts that are derived from tourism. We know the results of …

In spite of the considerable literature nowadays existing on the issue of the moral exclusion
of nonhuman animals, there is still work to be done concerning the characterization of the …

In 1872, a woman known only as" An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled" Are
Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as …

There is a long history of the involvement of animals for tourism purposes in circuses, zoos,
fairs, ecotourism and wildlife tourism, using animals as the prime focus of their experience …

The ethics of using nonhuman animals in biomedical research is usually seen as a subfield
of animal ethics. In recent years, however, the ethics of animal research has increasingly …

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited
as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent …

First Published in 2004. Zoos and animal rights would appear to be in conflict, yet Stephen
Bostock argues that this need not and should not be so. Examining the diverse ethical and …

Can animals be regarded as part of the moral community? To what extent, if at all, do they
have moral rights? Are we wrong to eat them, hunt them, or use them for scientific research …