So says Jerry Coyne, but I think he's listening to the wrong stuff.  Using the word "rock" loosely (he seems to be using it l...

As he promised to do a while back , Gary Francione has put an essay on his website about why (he thinks) it's speciesist to support ani...

Philosophers enjoy being weird.  My logic professor in graduate school taught in his bare feet.  I know faculty members who swear in class...

Last week's unveiling of the world's first cultured beef burger got everyone talking about "Frankenburgers" .  The "...

Update 8/13:  More buffalo pictures, sent by a reader.  This is what you get when you have a powerful camera and talent at photography!  Th...

I'm home from one trip and about to embark on another, so obviously I'm too busy for blogging--there's cleaning and pack...

Fabulous take down of the Texas legislature. I love this woman!

Over at this blog (see end of comments) Gary Francione has said he's writing an essay tentatively called "The Welfare/Regulationis...

Alright, one more post on animal welfare regulations (like Prop. 2 in California, which requires animal housing large enough so the anim...

I've been blogging more about animal issues lately, though these days I'm mostly focused on working on my book (er, manuscript until...

Several years ago I wrote a series of posts countering Gary Francione's opposition to animal welfare legislation ( Should Humane Farm Re...

After recently having a lively debate with someone about the ethics of regulating the farm animal industry, I found myself trying to set up ...

This past week democrats in Texas managed to stave off a bill that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks, thanks to a filibuster by Wendy ...

I've been reading (for the second time, actually), Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (ed. by Sally Haslanger and Char...

Do we own ourselves?  I'm thinking about the concept because it facilitates a certain model of the parent-child relationship.  On that m...

Lately I've been torturing my family with the question: what would the world be like if all animals were herbivores?  I'm pretty ...

HERE are the results of my survey.  88 people took the survey.  I asked-- This survey is aimed at people who are not vegans. You qualify...

Perhaps you are! But if not, please take this survey and disseminate.  I will share the results here in a week.  SURVEY

I've made six trips since February to visit my father in Pennsylvania. This means my thoughts have been interrupted a lot.  I get on the...

What makes death bad for someone who dies?  This is on my mind for lots of different reasons--so here goes, some thinking aloud. The quest...

Via Leiter, I see the San Jose philosophy department is complaining in an open letter to Michael Sandel that an MIT/Harvard-affiliated c...