What would it take to teach a machine to make ethical decisions? Using neural network technology, a research team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence headed by Dr. Yejin Choi recently ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 177, No. 7 (July 2020), pp. 1879-1899 (21 pages) In this paper, I aim to show that agency-based accounts ...

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 ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals co-founder Ingrid Newkirk recently claimed in the Washington Examiner that her animal liberation group is not “lefty.” Oh, really? Let’s review PETA’s ...

Does comparing the total number of human neurons vs. the total number of neurons among all domesticated animals affect the moral balance between animals and people? Oxford philosopher and Effective ...

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], October 4 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, on 'World Animal Day', highlighted the importance of protecting animals and maintaining harmony between ...

Mahatma Gandhi’s criterion for judging the greatness of a nation and its moral progress was its treatment of animals. By that standard, we cannot claim to have made much moral progress over the past ...

When an orca drowned one of his trainers at Orlando’s Sea World, nobody discussed “punishing” or otherwise holding him morally accountable. Indeed, the very notion is nonsensical, as a consequence of ...

Some readers decry keeping animals in captivity while others tout the educational benefits. To the Editor: Re “The Case Against Zoos,” by Emma Marris (Sunday Review, June 13): Ms. Marris argues that ...