In proposing the Species Membership Approach, Raffael Fasel argues against the misplaced fears that granting legal rights and ...

Animal rights is a philosophy and way of living that believes all animals are inherently valuable regardless of how useful ...

It seems that plant philosophy’s goal — like the animal- and nature-rights movements — is to knock humans off the pedestal of exceptionalism.

As laws change, animals are seen in new ways. What does this mean for their rights, our ethics, and the role of clinicians?

While animals’ sentience raises profound questions about their rights, as philosopher Martha Nussbaum has recently argued, the economic and public health consequences of industrial farming suggest ...

Even within the animal rights movement, there is conflict between those who defend animals based on their similarity to humans (moral theorists), and those who claim nonhuman animals have a right ...

Perhaps it should not be a surprise that so many animal-centric movements spend so much time thinking and talking about humans instead.

When the larger debate is whether human rights trump animal rights, what is trumping is the compassion for animals on the one side, and concerns over their safety on the other.