Research

Articles

2021. With Anthis, J. R. “Moral circle expansion: A promising strategy to impact the far future.” Futures, 130.

2021. “A Republic for All Sentients: Social Freedom Without Free Will.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, First published 16 March 2021

2021. With Kianpour, C.K. “Red in Tooth and Claw No More: Animal Rights and the Permissibility to Redesign Nature.” Environmental Values, 16 Feb. 2021

2020. “Preserving nature for the benefit of all sentient individuals.” Animal Sentience 27 (18)

2020. “A Kantian ethics of paradise engineering.” Analysis, 80 (2): 283-293.

2019. “Becoming the good shepherds”. Animal Sentience, 25 (30)

2019. “Humans may be unique and superior—and that is irrelevant”. Animal Sentience, 23 (26)

2019. with Faria, Catia. “It’s Splitsville. Why Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics are Incompatible.” American Behavioral Scientist, 63 (8): 1047-1060

2019. “On the Importance of Species for Rule-Consequentialism: A Reply to Galvão” Utilitas,  31 (2): 179-190

2017. “What harmful practices? The material scope of animal protection legislation. Commentary on Birch on ‘Precautionary Principle’”. Animal Sentience, 16 (17) 

2017. “La muerte de los animales no humanos en el nuevo utilitarismo hedonista de Peter Singer”. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales, IV (I): 86-106

2017. “The Pitfalls of Qualified Moral Veganism. A Critique of Jan Deckers’ Holistic Health Approach to Animal Ethics”. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, (5): 1113-1117

2016. “Emergency Contraceptives and the Beginning of Human Animals”. Bioethics, 30: 433-439

2016. “Wild Animal Suffering and Vegan Outreach. Commentary on Ng on ‘Animal Suffering’”. Animal Sentience, 7 (11)

2015. “Refusing help and inflicting harm. A critique of the environmentalist view”. Relations, 3 (2): 165-178

2015. Are we animals? Abortion, identity and a modified Future-of-Value Account”. Dilemata. International Journal of Applied Ethics, 7 (18): 243-258

2015. “Intuitions Gone Astray: between Implausibility and Speciesism. The Predation and Procreation Problems: a Reply”. Relations, 3 (1): 93-100

2015. With Faria, Catia. “Animals in Need: the Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature”. Relations, 3 (1): 7-13

2014. “Six ways something can be valuable”, Télos, 19 (1): 61-74

2014. With Faria, Catia. “Anthropocentrism and speciesism: conceptual and normative issues”. Revista de Bioética y Derecho, 32: 82-90

Book Chapters

2019. with Faria, Catia. “Why Environmentalism Cannot Beat Denialism. An Antispeciesist Approach to the Ethics of Climate Change.” In Núria Almirón and Jordi Xifra (ed.), Climate Change Denial and Public Relations. London: Routledge: 59-73

2018. “La protección jurídica de la vida de los no humanos. Fundamentación teórica y mecanismos de tutela” [The legal protection of the lives of nonhumans. Theoretical foundations and protection mechanisms]. In Javier Gallego Saade and María José Chible Villadangos (ed.), Derecho animal. Teoría y práctica [Animal Law. Theory and Practice]. Santiago de Chile: Thomson-Reuters: 113-144.

2017. “Posséder des intérêts sans avoir de désirs, concevoir une chose comme mauvaise sans que des intérêts soient en jeu. La valeur négative de la mort dans l’utilitarisme hédoniste de Peter Singer”. In Émilie Dardenne, Valéry Giroux, Enrique Utria (ed.), Peter Singer et la libération animale. Quarante ans plus tard. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes: 83-102.

2016. “Altruismo más allá de la especie” [Cross-species Altruism]. In Iván Darío Ávila Gaitán (ed.), La cuestión animal(ista). Colombia: Desde Abajo Ediciones: 341-358.