David DeGrazia


David DeGrazia 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, Human Identity and Bioethics, and Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life.

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. Biomedical Ethics. McGraw-Hill, 2011.
  • Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • with Thomas Mappes and Jane Zembaty. 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.
  • DeGrazia, David. “Robots with Moral Status? Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 65 : 73-88.
  • DeGrazia, David. “An Interest-Based Model of Moral Status,” in S. Clark, H. Zohny, and J. Savulescu, Rethinking Moral Status : 40-56.
  • DeGrazia, David and Tom Beauchamp. “Beyond the 3 Rs to a More Comprehensive Framework of Principles for Animal Research Ethics." ILAR Journal : 1-10.
  • DeGrazia, David. In Leslie Francis, The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics.
  • DeGrazia, David, Michelle Groman, and Lisa Lee. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
  • DeGrazia, David. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24 : 1-25.
  • DeGrazia, David. In Ronald Green and Nathan Palpant, Suffering in Bioethics.
  • DeGrazia, David. Journal of Medical Ethics 39 : 1-8.
  • DeGrazia, David. Journal of Moral Philosophy 6, no. 2 : 143-165.
  • DeGrazia, David. In Robert Lurz, The Philosophy of Animal Minds : 201-217.
  • DeGrazia, David. Hastings Center Report 38, no. 1 : 23-33.
  • DeGrazia, David. Philosophical Forum 57 : 57-80.
  • DeGrazia, David. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 34 : 49-57.
  • DeGrazia, David. Hastings Center Report 30, no. 2 : 34-40.
  • DeGrazia, David. , History of Philosophy Quarterly 11, no. 1 : 121–137.
  • DeGrazia, David. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 17 : 511-39.
  • DeGrazia, David, and Andrew Rowan. Theoretical Medicine 12 : 193-211.