Research Questions

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How does veganism intersect with other social justice movements, such as animal advocacy, environmentalism or feminism?

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Why are youth generally more compassionate toward other species, and why does this compassion appear to fade over time?

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Given the availability of modern alternatives, what strategies are most effective in changing the norms around the use of animals in medical, behavioral research, and educational dissections?

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How does the intrinsic moral value of biodiversity (if it has any) compare to the intrinsic moral value of an individual?

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Which distributive principles (if any) should we apply when deciding how to allocate resources to help animals at different levels of welfare?

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Is welfare invariabilism the right view?

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How morally relevant (if at all) are differences in cognitive, affective, or social sophistication?

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What are the morally relevant capabilities of different animals?

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Under what conditions does the moral value of the experiences or interests of a non-human animal outweigh the moral value of the experiences or interests of a human?

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How can we measure the welfare of different sorts of animals in different sorts of conditions?

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What is the evolutionary function of valenced experience?

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How do animals differ in the characteristic or possible intensity range of valenced experience?

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How should we compare the moral value of helping different types of animals?

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Which animals (if any) lead net-negative lives?

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What are our obligations to extremely numerous animals that we believe are unlikely to have moral standing (e.g., the ~440 quintillion nematodes)?

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Which animals possess moral standing, and how do we determine which ones are sentient and which ones are agents?

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