David DeGrazia (born July 20, 1962)[1] is an American moral philosopher specializing in bioethics, animal ethics, and the study of moral status. 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).[2]
Selected publications
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, 2011.
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, 2012.
with Lester Hunt. Debating Gun Control. Oxford University Press, 2016.
with Tom Beauchamp. Principles of Animal Research Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2020.
with Joseph Millum. A Theory of Bioethics. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Dialogues on Gun Control. Routledge Press, 2023.
Articles
DeGrazia, David. “Leveraging a Sturdy Norm: How Ethicists Really Argue,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2023; doi:10.1017/S0963180123000592).
DeGrazia, David. “Robots with Moral Status? Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 65 (2022): 73-88.
DeGrazia, David. “An Interest-Based Model of Moral Status,” in S. Clark, H. Zohny, and J. Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021): 40-56.
DeGrazia, David and Tom Beauchamp. “Beyond the 3 Rs to a More Comprehensive Framework of Principles for Animal Research Ethics." ILAR Journal (2019): 1-10.
