Writing

“Designing a 'Made in America' Meat Tax,” N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal 32 (2024) (with Emma Dietz and Katrina Wyman): 157-206. [link]

“Mollendorf on Hope, Poverty, and Climate Change,” Environmental Ethics 46,2 (2024):  171-176.  [link]

“China's Food Pagodas: Looking Forward By Looking Back?,” Journal of Food Law & Policy 17, 2 (2022):  130-167 (with Yifei Li). [link]

“Climate Change, Liberalism, and the Public/Private Distinction,” in Mark Budolfson, Tristram McPherson, and David Plunkett (eds.), Philosophy and Climate Change (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2021): 370-395 (with Marcello Di Paola). [link]

“Marooned Democracy: Climate Change Demands Management, Not Solutionism,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (2021). [link]

“The Misunderstood Risks of Climate Change,” Iride: Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 20,2 (2020): 229-236. [link]

"Climate Change and the Challenges to Democracy," University of Miami Law Review 72 (2018):  369-424 (with Marcello Di Paola). [link]

"Soft but significant power in the Paris Agreement", Nature Climate Change 6 (2016):  643-646  (with Jennifer Jacquet). [link]

“Climate ethics at a multidisciplinary crossroads:  four directions for future scholarship,” Climatic Change 130, (2015):  465-474 (with E. Markowitz and  M. Grasso). [link]

"Responsibility and Climate Change," Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 8, 2 (2015): 23-42. [link]

 “Two Cheers for Climate Justice,” Social Research 82,3 (2015):  791-809. [link]

“Theology and Politics in Laudato Si," AJIL Unbound 109 (2015): 122-126. [link]

“Climate Change and Global Justice:  New Problem, Old Paradigm?" Global Policy 5,1 (2014):  105-111 (with Marcello di Paolo); [link]

“Climate Change, Consequentialism, and the Road Ahead’, Chicago Journal of International Law  13, 2 (Winter 2013):  439-468; [link]

“Some Whats, Whys and Worries of Geoengineering,” Climatic Change 121, 3 (2013):  527-537. [link]

“Jack, Jill, and Jane in a Perfect Moral Storm,” Philosophy and Public Issues 3,1 (2013):  37-53. [link]

“The Nature of the Problem,” in J.Dryzek, R. Norgaard, & D.Schlosberg (eds.),  The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (New York:  Oxford University Press, 2011): 38-54. [link]

“Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice.” Science and Engineering Ethics 16, 3 (2009): 431-445. [link]

“The Philosophers’ Symposium on Climate Change,” Critical Inquiry 34 (2008):  612-619. [link]

 “The Post-Kyoto Climate:  A Gloomy Forecast,” Georgetown Journal of International Environmental Law 20 (2008):  537-551. [link]

“The Moral & Political Challenges of Climate Change,” in L. Dilling and S. Moser (eds.), Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change & Facilitating Social Change. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006): 475–482. [link]

“Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice,” in Sinnott-Armstrong, W. and Howarth, R.B. (eds.), Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics. (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005): 217-248. [link]

“Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice.” in P. Edwards and C. Miller (eds.), Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Global Environmental Governance. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001): 287–307. [link]

“Ethics and Intentional Climate Change,” Climatic Change 33,3 (1996): 323-336. [link]

 “Ethics, Public Policy, & Global Warming.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 17, 2 (1992): 139–153. [link]

"The Epistemology of Climate Change: Some Morals for Managers." Society & Natural Resources 4, 4 (1991): 319–329. [link]

“Managing the Future: Public Policy, Scientific Uncertainty, and Global Warming,” in D. Scherer (ed.), Upstream/Downstream: Essays in Environmental Ethics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1990). [link]

“Grappling for a Glimpse of the Future,” in Michael H. Glantz (ed.)  Societal Responses to Regional Climatic Change: Forecasting by Analogy (Boulder CO:  Westview Press 1988):  73‑93; [link]

"The Many Faces of Science in the Animal Protection Movement." Animal Law Digest 291 (2025). [link]

"The Right to Strive in a Changing World," Science 379, 6627 (2023) : 35. [link]

The Role of Agency, Sentience, and Cognition in the Protection of Aquatic Animals, co-authored and edited with Jennifer Jacquet, with contributions by Christopher Ewell, Lori Marino, Jennifer Telesca, Paul Greenberg, and Becca Franks (New York:  Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, 2023). [link]

Animal Markets and Zoonotic Disease in the United States, co-authored with Ann Linder, Valerie Wilson McCarthy, Chris Green, Bonnie Nadzam, and Kristen Stilt (Cambridge MA and New York:  Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law and Policy Program, Harvard Law School; and Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, New York University, 2023). [link]

"Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals," (Book Review) Philosophical Review 130, 2 (2021): 315-9. [link]

“Animal Agency,” Harvard Review of Philosophy 25 (2018): 111-126. [link]

“Liberating Primatology, Journal of Biosciences 43, 1 (2018): 3-8 (with Sindhu Radhakrishnan). [link]

"What do Animals Think?" in R. Lurz (ed.), The Philosophy of Animals Minds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009): 15-34. [link]

“The Rights of Animals and the Demands of Nature,” Environmental Values 17, 2 (2008): 181–189. [link]

"Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality," in Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002): 47-51. [link]

"On Aims and Methods of Cognitive Ethology," in Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. (New York, Oxford University Press, 2002): 71-86 (with Marc Bekoff). [link]

"Cognitive Ethology at the End of Neuroscience," in Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. (New York, Oxford University Press, 2002): 87-96. [link]

“Against Zoos,” in Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. (New York, Oxford University Press, 2002): 166-175. [link]

“Zoos Revisited,” in Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. (New York, Oxford University Press, 2002): 176-189. [link]

"Science, Knowledge, and Animal Minds," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 98 (1998): 79-102. [link]

“Ethics and the Study of Carnivores:  Doing Science While Respecting Animals,” in J. Gittleman (ed.), Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Volume 2 . (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1994):  15-45 (with Marc Bekoff). [link]

“Reflective Ethology, Applied Philosophy, and the Moral Status of Animals,” in P. Bateson and P. Klopfer (eds.), Perspectives in Ethology, Volume 9 (NY: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1991):  1‑47 (with Marc Bekoff). [link]

“Cognitive Ethology and Applied Philosophy:  The Significance of an Evolutionary Biology of Mind,” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5, 5 (1990):  156‑159 (with Marc Bekoff). [link] 

“Whales are not Cetacean Resources,” in M. W. Fox and L. D. Mackley (eds.), Advances in Animal Welfare Science 1984 (The Hague:  Martinus Nijhoff, 1985): 101‑111 (with Tom Regan). [link]

“On the Ethics of the Use of Animals in Science,” in T. Regan and D. VanDeVeer (eds.), And Justice For All:  New Introductory Essays in Ethics and Public Policy (Totowa NJ:  Rowman and Littlefield 1982):  169‑196 (with Tom Regan). [link]

"Mutualisms: Here, There, and Everywhere," Science  389, 6762 (2025): 787 [link] 

"Probing Our Rich Entanglements," Science 384, 6692 (2024): 166 [link]

"Rights of Nature: Philosophical Challenges and Pragmatic Opportunities." in C. Rodriguez-Garavito (ed.), More than Human Rights. (New York: NYU MOTH Project, 2024): 95-110. [link]

"Introduction." in Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches here and There. (London: Penguin Classics, 2020): xi-xxv. [link]

“Loving Nature,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76,4 (2018):  485-495. [link]

"Energy, Ethics and the Transformation of Nature," in D. Arnold (ed.), The Ethics of Global Climate Change. (London, Cambridge University Press, 2011):16-37. [link]

"The Question of the Environment," in S. Rodata & M. Tallacchini (eds.), Ambito E Fonti del Biodirito (Milan: Giuffre Editore, 2010). 2010, 37-50. [link]

“Justice: The Heart of Environmentalism,” in  R. Sandler and P. Pezzullo (eds.), Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007): 85-101 [link]

"The City Around Us" in T. Regan (ed.), Earthbound:  New Introductory Essays in Environmental Ethics (New York:  Random House 1984):  38‑73 [link].

“Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice,” in P. Edwards and C. Miller (eds.), Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Global Environmental Governance. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001): 287–307. [link]

“Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic,” Environmental Values 7,1 (1998): 41-57. [link]

“Global Responsibilities: Ethics, Public Health, and Global Environmental Change,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 5,1 (1997): 99-119. [link]

"Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine," Environmental Values 4 (1995): 333-344. [link]

"Slavery, Carbon, and Moral Progress," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 20, 1 (2016): 169-183. [link]

"Constructing Practical Ethics," in R. Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012): 843-866. [link]

"Progressive Consequentialism," Philosophical Perspectives , Ethics 23, 1 (2009): 241-251 (with Robert Elliot). [link]

“When Utilitarians Should be Virtue Theorists,” Utilitas 19,2 (2007): 160-183. [link]

“Duties to the Distant: Humanitarian Aid, Developmental Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World,” Journal of Ethics 9, 1-2 (2005): 151-170. [link]

"Is There Progress in Morality?" Utilitas 14 (2002): 318-338. [link]

"Is Applied Ethics Worth Doing?" in Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002): 27-46. [link]

“Sober and Wilson on Psychological Altruism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65, 3 (2002): 702-10. [link]

"Singer and the Practical Ethics Movement," in D. Jamieson (ed.), Singer and His Critics. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1999), 1-17. [link]

"The Poverty of Postmodernist Theory," University of Colorado Law Review 62, 3 (1991): 577–596. [link]

“Method and Moral Theory,” in P. Singer (ed.), A Companion to Ethics. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991): 476-487 [link]

“Rights, Justice and Duties to Aid: A Critique of Regan’s Theory of Rights,” Ethics 100 (1990): 349-362. [link]

“Utilitarianism and the Morality of Killing,” Philosophical Studies 45 (1984):  209-221. [link]

“Killing Persons and Other Beings,” in H. Miller and W. Williams (eds.), Ethics and Animals (Clifton NJ:  Humana Press 1983):  135-146. [link]

"Research needs for a food system transition," Climatic Change 176, 41 (2023): 1-15 (with Sonali McDermid, Matthew Hayek, Galina Hale, David Kanter).

“Blindspots in Biodefense,” Science 379, 6633 (2023): 621 (with Ann Linder). [link]

"An appeal to cost undermines food security risks of delayed mitigation," Nature Climate Change 10 (2020): 418-9 (with Matthew Hayek and Sonali McDermid) [link]

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities," Annual Review of Environment and Resources  42 (2017): 55-75. [link]

"Science and Policy: Crossing the Boundary," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 71, 1 (2015): 53-58. [link]

"Talking About the Weather," BioScience 60, 8 (2010): 639-642. [link]

“Junk Science and Environmental Policy: Obscuring Public Debate with Misleading Discourse,” Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 21, 2/3 (2001): 11–16. [link]

“Discourse and Moral Responsibility in Biotechnical Communication,” Science and Engineering Ethics 6,2 (2000): 265-273. [link]

"Societal Response to Hurricane Mitch and Intra-Versus Intergenerational Equity Issues: Whose Norms Should Apply?" Risk Analysis 20, 6, (2000): 869-882. [link]

“Scientific Uncertainty and the Political Process,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 545 (1996): 35–43. [link]

“The Social Construction of Acid Rain: Some Implications for Science/Policy Assessment,” Global Environmental Change 5,2 (1995): 105-112 (with Charles Herrick). [link]

 “What Society Will Expect From the Future Research Community,” Science and Engineering Ethics 1 (1994): 73-80. [link]

Can Democracies Beat Climate Change? (Politico: June 18, 2020)

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change (Scientific American Blog: Aug 19, 2019. Co-authored with Naomi Oreskes and Michael Oppenheimer)

Take Climate Change of Back Burner -- And Do It Now. (Daily News OpEd: Aug 11, 2018. Co-authored with Peter Singer)

Here’s What to Hope for From the Paris Climate Talks (Grit: Oct 13, 2015. Co-authored with Jennifer Jacquet)

The Right's New Climate Change Lie: It's All the Scientists' Fault (Salon:  March 29, 2014)

Why We Shouldn't Buy Into Geoengineering Fantasies (Slate: Sep 23, 2010)