Selected Publications

Books

Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-being Across Species. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Wildlife Ethics: Animal Ethics in Wildlife Management and Conservation, w/ Christian Gamborg, Jordan Owen Hampton, Clare Palmer, and Peter Sandoe. Blackwell, 2023.

A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox, w/ Anthony Weston. Fifth Edition. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Animal Ethics — A Contemporary Introduction. Routledge, 2021.

College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues That Affect You. Oxford University Press, 2020. (First Edition: 2017.)

The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics. Routledge, 2020.

Articles

“Defending and Refining the Birch et al. (2021) Precautionary Framework for Animal Sentience,” w/, Joe Gottlieb, Alexandra K. Schnell, and Meghan Barrett. Animal Welfare, forthcoming.

“The Era Beyond Eisemann et al. (1984): Insect Pain in the 21st Century,” w/ Meghan Barrett, The Quarterly Review of Biology, forthcoming.

"Beyond Ordinal Scales: Making Animal Welfare Count in Policy Analysis," Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2025.

"Foundations Should Invest More in Staffing," w/ Kyle A. Smith, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2025.

"Navigating Uncertainty about Sentience," w/ Hayley Clatterbuck. Ethics, 2025.

"How to Express Improvements in Animal Welfare in DALYs-averted," Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2024.

"Monetizing Animal Welfare Impacts for Benefit-Cost Analysis," w/ Mark Budolfson, Romain Espinosa, and Nicholas Treich. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2024.

"Animal Welfare: Methods to Improve Policy and Practice," w/ Mark Budolfson and Noah Scovronick, Science, 2023.

“Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Non-human Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations,” w/ Johannes Mahr, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023.

"Climate Change, Human-Wildlife Conflict and Biodiversity Loss," in The Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare, edited by Andrew Knight, 2022.

"Should Global Conservation Initiatives Prioritize Phylogenetic Diversity?" w/ Clare Palmer, Philosophia, 2022.

"Animal Agriculture, Wet Markets, and COVID-19: A Case Study in Indirect Activism," w/ Alyse Spiehler, Food Ethics, 2021.

"Quantifying the Valuation of Animal Welfare Among Americans," w/ Scott T. Weathers, Lucius Caviola, Laura Scherer, Stephan Pfister, Jesse B. Bump, and Lindsay M. Jaacks; Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2020.

"Collecting Insects to Conserve Them: A Call for Ethical Caution," w/ Brendon Larson; Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2019.

"Moral Bioenhancement Probably Won't Improve Things for Animals (and May Make Them Worse)," Topoi, 2019.

"The Problem with Person-rearing Accounts of Moral Status," w/ Travis Timmerman; Thought, 2019.

"Arguments for Consuming Animal Products," The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, ed. Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett; Oxford University Press, 2018.

"Field Deaths in Plant Agriculture," w/ Andy Lamey; Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2018.

"Focus on Fish: A Call to Effective Altruists," w/ Max Elder, Essays in Philosophy, 2017.

For all other publications, see Google Scholar.