David DeGrazia

David DeGrazia is an American moral philosopher specializing in bioethics and animal ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, where he has taught since 1989, and the author or editor of several books on ethics, including Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (1996), Human Identity and Bioethics (2005), and Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life (2012). DeGrazia is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.^[1]

Books

• Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life. Oxford University Press, 2012
• Human Identity and Bioethics. Cambridge University Press, 2005
• Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2002
• with Thomas Mappes and Jeffrey Brand-Ballard (eds.). Biomedical Ethics. McGraw-Hill, 1996
• Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status. Cambridge University Press, 1996
• with Thomas Mappes and Jane Zembaty (eds.). Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy. McGraw-Hill, 1981

Notes

Further reading

• Clark, Stephen. "Review: Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status by David DeGrazia", The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 195 (April 1999), pp. 246–247.
• DeGrazia, David. "Regarding the Last Frontier of Bigotry", Logos, Spring 2005.
• DeGrazia, David. "Wittgenstein and the Mental Life of Animals", History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1994), pp. 121–137.
• Schechtman, Marya. "Review: David DeGrazia, Human Identity and Bioethics", Ethics, Vol. 116, No. 2 (January 2006), pp. 406–409.