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The Metaethics and Normative Ethics of Animal Welfare and Conservation: Many Questions, Some Implications
The Ethics of Animal Research
Animal Welfare vs related concepts
Animal cognition and the ethics of animal training
The Welfare of Animals in Factory Farms: An Examination of Utilitarianism and Moral Standing
Moral ~realism
Animal Welfare: A Heuristic Guide to the Three Major Schools of Thought in Animal Ethics
How much bigger could the future of animal welfare be?
What are the effects of considering that animal sentience or consciousness emerges from evolutionary and other functional pressures?
Factory farming is a major contributor to animal suffering and is a significant cause of greenhouse gas emissions. The main argument against factory farming is that it involves the large-scale confinement and cruel treatment of animals, often in unsanitary and inhumane conditions. Factory farming is often defended as a necessary evil, providing cheap meat to
The Life-Goals Framework: How I Reason About Animal Welfare as a Sentience-Realist
Animal Intelligence
Temporal Discounting, Animal Welfare, and the Long-Term Consequences of Factory Farming
Should animals be given human rights?
the ethics of keeping farm animals in large groups or social units.
The Suffering Truth makes no difference to what happens to the animals in a factory farm.
Moral Uncertainty and Moral Realism Are in Tension
End-Relational Theory of Animal Welfare: A Dialogue
The despair of animal liberation bots
Animal minds, specifically the nature of consciousness and subjective experience in non-human animals.
Mammals as potentially conscious analogues to computers, the future of animal cognition, global priorities, meta-ethics of animal welfare, and the ethics of "uplifting" animals through technological enhancements.
Animal welfare, animal cognition and the ethics of using animals in research, as well as the ethics of animal ownership and animal agriculture, with possible podcast guests including Peter Singer, Gary Francione, and Richard Ryder.
Influence of the species in moral theories
Against animal hedonism
Book Review: Parfit - A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Animal Welfare
Improving Animal Welfare and the Problem of Moral Status
Animal suffering and moral realism (or: do we have a duty to prevent the chickens from screaming?)
Animal Welfare and the Meta-Ethics of Consequentialism
Utilitarianism and animal sentience
Incompatibility of moral realism and veganism
The well-being of animals should be prioritized over human interests, but only when human interests are not threatened.
Krister Bykvist on moral uncertainty, rationality, metaethics, AI and future populations.
An animal's experience of pain is similar to a human's experience of pain, and yet many people believe that it's morally acceptable to keep animals in cages and subject them to various forms of experimentation. This is a problem for moral anti-realists because it forces them to bite bullets that they otherwise wouldn't have to bite
Why We Love the Wrong Animals
A morally justifiable position on the practice of zoos
In Defense of Factory Farming
Can animals have metaphysical Free Will?
What is the relationship between cognitive biases and the moral status of animals?
Human-Animal Interconnectedness
Animal Ethics is Alchemy: Factory Farms Aren't Veggie Muffins
In defence of animal liberation
Animal Sentience and Moral Status
Wildlife Conservation and Habitat Restoration
Farm Animal Welfare
When reporting animal welfare improvements, be clear who you're deferring to.
Animal cognition and the limits of anthropomorphism
When an animal is a pet, it is often considered to be a part of the family. However, many people do not consider the welfare of their pets in the same way that they consider the welfare of other family members. This is often due to a lack of understanding about animal behavior and cognition, as well as a
My mistakes on the path to effective animal welfare interventions
Comparing top animal trainers and animal behaviorists
The illusion of consensus about effective animal advocacy
Animal Welfare as a Moral Priority
The Relationship Between Animal Intelligence and Animal Welfare
What to do when your pet's health is declining
Why animal welfare researchers can be useful to the animal welfare movement
Should we make all zoos and aquariums go vegan?
In defence of animal sanctuaries
Animal sanctuary management
Animal welfare is the foundation on which other values in society grow. Without a basic level of concern for animal well-being, it's unlikely that humans would have developed many of the moral and ethical principles that we take for granted today.
Animal Kingdom Hierarchy and Welfare Paradigms: A Dichotomy of Approaches
Animal shelters are bad for community epistemics.
Animal Conservation through Ecological Restoration
What is the effect of different enrichment strategies on the welfare of animals in zoos?
How to make animal welfare policies more effective
Animal Welfare in the Context of Zoos and Aquariums
Animal Welfare as a Key Need in EA
How modest should your dog be?
The Prevention of Animal Cruelty Act of 1910: How Effective Has It Been in Protecting Animal Welfare?
Animal cognition and welfare in labs: What's the right balance between safety and ethics?
Animal Welfare vs. Animal Agency: To what extent should we be willing to sacrifice nuanced consideration of animal agency and autonomy when advocating for their welfare and rights, in order to make their interests more accessible and relatable to the general public?
How do we ensure the effectiveness of animal welfare organizations, and what are the implications of their effectiveness for human well-being and the environment?
Explain how to evaluate the effectiveness of animal sanctuaries as a tool for improving animal welfare.
How can animal advocacy prioritize empirical research and critical thinking?
How can we improve Animal Welfare Governance in EA Animal Welfare?.
A new topic for discussion: What are the most pressing animal welfare issues in the world and how can effective altruists address them?
Large epistemological concerns I should maybe have about animal welfare a priori
Dangers of neglecting the sentience of animals in science research
Animal Welfare Activism: Essential Ally or Perceived Menace?
Inadequacy and Modesty
A New Heuristic to Update on the Credences of Animal Sentience
Against Animal Farming 101
Entitlement to believe in speciesism is lacking in Animal Welfare Advocacy
When should you prioritize animal welfare over human interests? A useful framework.
Aggregating judgements about animal welfare interventions
Animal Welfare in the Digital Age
Animal Welfare, Global Cooperation, & the Ethics of Animal Rescue Efforts
Animal Cruelty and Neglect: Understanding the Issue and Exploring Solutions
Animal welfare in the context of food production and consumption
Animal Suffering Reduction through AI
Does Improved Farm Animal Welfare Meaningfully Improve Well-being?
Animal Assisted Therapy - effective ways to implement it
Effective Animal Self-Care - A guide to improving animal wellbeing
If Animals Could Vote, Would They Vote for Animal Welfare Laws?
Animal welfare comparisons across species, increasingly dependent on arbitrary moral weights
How to increase animal welfare organizations' productive hours by up to 35%
Oxytocin and its effects on animal welfare
Refrigeration and Animal Welfare: SoGive's Impact Analysis Toolkit for Evaluating Chicken Slaughter
Animal Welfare and the Future of Farming
Factory farming
How to Efficiently Allocate Resources for Animal Welfare Organizations
Announcing PAVIA: A new EA organization aiming to develop more effective animal research methods & promote animal welfare through collaboration & research.

The Metaethics and Normative Ethics of Animal Welfare and Conservation: Many Questions, Some Implications

The Ethics of Animal Research

Animal Welfare vs related concepts

Animal cognition and the ethics of animal training

The Welfare of Animals in Factory Farms: An Examination of Utilitarianism and Moral Standing

Moral ~realism

Animal Welfare: A Heuristic Guide to the Three Major Schools of Thought in Animal Ethics

How much bigger could the future of animal welfare be?

What are the effects of considering that animal sentience or consciousness emerges from evolutionary and other functional pressures?

Factory farming is a major contributor to animal suffering and is a significant cause of greenhouse gas emissions. The main argument against factory farming is that it involves the large-scale confinement and cruel treatment of animals, often in unsanitary and inhumane conditions. Factory farming is often defended as a necessary evil, providing cheap meat to

The Life-Goals Framework: How I Reason About Animal Welfare as a Sentience-Realist

Animal Intelligence

Temporal Discounting, Animal Welfare, and the Long-Term Consequences of Factory Farming

Should animals be given human rights?

the ethics of keeping farm animals in large groups or social units.

The Suffering Truth makes no difference to what happens to the animals in a factory farm.

Moral Uncertainty and Moral Realism Are in Tension

End-Relational Theory of Animal Welfare: A Dialogue

The despair of animal liberation bots

Animal minds, specifically the nature of consciousness and subjective experience in non-human animals.

Mammals as potentially conscious analogues to computers, the future of animal cognition, global priorities, meta-ethics of animal welfare, and the ethics of "uplifting" animals through technological enhancements.

Animal welfare, animal cognition and the ethics of using animals in research, as well as the ethics of animal ownership and animal agriculture, with possible podcast guests including Peter Singer, Gary Francione, and Richard Ryder.

Influence of the species in moral theories

Against animal hedonism

Book Review: Parfit - A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Animal Welfare

Improving Animal Welfare and the Problem of Moral Status

Animal suffering and moral realism (or: do we have a duty to prevent the chickens from screaming?)

Animal Welfare and the Meta-Ethics of Consequentialism

Utilitarianism and animal sentience

Incompatibility of moral realism and veganism

The well-being of animals should be prioritized over human interests, but only when human interests are not threatened.

Krister Bykvist on moral uncertainty, rationality, metaethics, AI and future populations.

An animal's experience of pain is similar to a human's experience of pain, and yet many people believe that it's morally acceptable to keep animals in cages and subject them to various forms of experimentation. This is a problem for moral anti-realists because it forces them to bite bullets that they otherwise wouldn't have to bite

Why We Love the Wrong Animals

A morally justifiable position on the practice of zoos

In Defense of Factory Farming

Can animals have metaphysical Free Will?

What is the relationship between cognitive biases and the moral status of animals?

Human-Animal Interconnectedness

Animal Ethics is Alchemy: Factory Farms Aren't Veggie Muffins

In defence of animal liberation

Animal Sentience and Moral Status

Wildlife Conservation and Habitat Restoration

Farm Animal Welfare

When reporting animal welfare improvements, be clear who you're deferring to.

Animal cognition and the limits of anthropomorphism

When an animal is a pet, it is often considered to be a part of the family. However, many people do not consider the welfare of their pets in the same way that they consider the welfare of other family members. This is often due to a lack of understanding about animal behavior and cognition, as well as a

My mistakes on the path to effective animal welfare interventions

Comparing top animal trainers and animal behaviorists

The illusion of consensus about effective animal advocacy

Animal Welfare as a Moral Priority

The Relationship Between Animal Intelligence and Animal Welfare

What to do when your pet's health is declining

Why animal welfare researchers can be useful to the animal welfare movement

Should we make all zoos and aquariums go vegan?

In defence of animal sanctuaries

Animal sanctuary management

Animal welfare is the foundation on which other values in society grow. Without a basic level of concern for animal well-being, it's unlikely that humans would have developed many of the moral and ethical principles that we take for granted today.

Animal Kingdom Hierarchy and Welfare Paradigms: A Dichotomy of Approaches

Animal shelters are bad for community epistemics.

Animal Conservation through Ecological Restoration

What is the effect of different enrichment strategies on the welfare of animals in zoos?

How to make animal welfare policies more effective

Animal Welfare in the Context of Zoos and Aquariums

Animal Welfare as a Key Need in EA

How modest should your dog be?

The Prevention of Animal Cruelty Act of 1910: How Effective Has It Been in Protecting Animal Welfare?

Animal cognition and welfare in labs: What's the right balance between safety and ethics?

Animal Welfare vs. Animal Agency: To what extent should we be willing to sacrifice nuanced consideration of animal agency and autonomy when advocating for their welfare and rights, in order to make their interests more accessible and relatable to the general public?

How do we ensure the effectiveness of animal welfare organizations, and what are the implications of their effectiveness for human well-being and the environment?

Explain how to evaluate the effectiveness of animal sanctuaries as a tool for improving animal welfare.

How can animal advocacy prioritize empirical research and critical thinking?

How can we improve Animal Welfare Governance in EA Animal Welfare?.

A new topic for discussion: What are the most pressing animal welfare issues in the world and how can effective altruists address them?

Large epistemological concerns I should maybe have about animal welfare a priori

Dangers of neglecting the sentience of animals in science research

Animal Welfare Activism: Essential Ally or Perceived Menace?

Inadequacy and Modesty

A New Heuristic to Update on the Credences of Animal Sentience

Against Animal Farming 101

Entitlement to believe in speciesism is lacking in Animal Welfare Advocacy

When should you prioritize animal welfare over human interests? A useful framework.

Aggregating judgements about animal welfare interventions

Animal Welfare in the Digital Age

Animal Welfare, Global Cooperation, & the Ethics of Animal Rescue Efforts

Animal Cruelty and Neglect: Understanding the Issue and Exploring Solutions

Animal welfare in the context of food production and consumption

Animal Suffering Reduction through AI

Does Improved Farm Animal Welfare Meaningfully Improve Well-being?

Animal Assisted Therapy - effective ways to implement it

Effective Animal Self-Care - A guide to improving animal wellbeing

If Animals Could Vote, Would They Vote for Animal Welfare Laws?

Animal welfare comparisons across species, increasingly dependent on arbitrary moral weights

How to increase animal welfare organizations' productive hours by up to 35%

Oxytocin and its effects on animal welfare

Refrigeration and Animal Welfare: SoGive's Impact Analysis Toolkit for Evaluating Chicken Slaughter

Animal Welfare and the Future of Farming

Factory farming

How to Efficiently Allocate Resources for Animal Welfare Organizations

Announcing PAVIA: A new EA organization aiming to develop more effective animal research methods & promote animal welfare through collaboration & research.