In 55 BC, the Roman leader Pompey staged a combat between humans and elephants. Surrounded in the arena, the animals perceived that they had no hope of escape. According to Pliny, they then “entreated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When using books to teach morality tales, it may be best if the characters don’t have tails of their own (or any other animal traits). Young children are more likely to learn and apply character ...

We are calling on the U.S. Congress to fund care for the estimated 200 primates who will no longer be used in research ...

The Oscar-winning actor weighed in following the conviction of UC Berkeley animal activist Zoe Rosenberg, who took four ...