David DeGrazia (born July 20, 1962)^[1] is an American moral philosopher specializing inbioethics,animal ethics, and the study of moral status. He is Professor of Philosophy atGeorge Washington University, where he has taught since 1989, and the author or editor of several books on ethics, includingTaking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (1996),Human Identity and Bioethics (2005), andCreation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life (2012).^[2]

• 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.

• 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.
• DeGrazia, David."Procreative Responsibility in View of What Parents Owe Their Children."^{[permanent dead link]} In Leslie Francis (ed.),The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
• DeGrazia, David, Michelle Groman, and Lisa Lee."Defining the Boundaries of a Right to Adequate Protection: A New Lens on Pediatric Research Ethics."Archived 2021-08-25 at theWayback MachineJournal of Medicine and Philosophy (2017)
• DeGrazia, David."The Case for Moderate Gun Control."Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24 (2014): 1-25.
• DeGrazia, David."What is Suffering and What Kinds of Beings Can Suffer?"Archived 2016-05-17 at theWayback Machine In Ronald Green and Nathan Palpant (eds.),Suffering in Bioethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• DeGrazia, David."Moral Enhancement, Freedom, and What We (Should) Value in Moral Behavior."Archived 2016-05-17 at theWayback Machine Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (2013): 1-8.
• DeGrazia, David."Moral Vegetarianism from a Very Broad Basis."Archived 2016-05-17 at theWayback MachineJournal of Moral Philosophy 6, no. 2 (2009): 143-165.
• DeGrazia, David."Self-Awareness in Animals."Archived 2016-05-17 at theWayback Machine In Robert Lurz (ed.),The Philosophy of Animal Minds (Cambridge University Press, 2009): 201-217.
• DeGrazia, David."Single Payer Meets Managed Competition: The Case for Public Funding and Private Delivery."Archived 2016-05-17 at theWayback MachineHastings Center Report 38, no. 1 (2008): 23-33.
• DeGrazia, David."The Harm of Death, Time-Relative Interests, and Abortion."Archived 2016-05-17 at theWayback MachinePhilosophical Forum 57 (2007): 57-80.
• DeGrazia, David."Moral Status, Human Identity, and Early Embryos: A Critique of the President's Approach."Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 34 (Spring 2006): 49-57.
• DeGrazia, David."Prozac, Enhancement, and Self-Creation."Archived 2015-12-22 at theWayback MachineHastings Center Report 30, no. 2 (March–April 2000): 34-40.
• DeGrazia, David."Wittgenstein and the Mental Life of Animals",History of Philosophy Quarterly 11, no. 1 (January 1994): 121–137.
• DeGrazia, David."Moving Forward in Bioethical Theory: Theories, Cases, and Specified Principlism,"Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 17 (1992): 511-39.
• DeGrazia, David, and Andrew Rowan."Pain, Suffering, and Anxiety in Animals and Humans."Theoretical Medicine 12 (1991): 193-211.

• List of animal rights advocates

• Clark, Stephen."Review:Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status by David DeGrazia",The Philosophical Quarterly 49, no. 195 (April 1999): 246–247.
• Schechtman, Marya."Review: David DeGrazia,Human Identity and Bioethics",Ethics 116, no. 2 (January 2006): 406–409.
• Steinbock, Bonnie."Review:Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life by David DeGrazia. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 21, 2012.

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• Scholars of veganism

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