Faculty Profiles

Barrett, M., & Fischer, B. (n.d.). The Era Beyond Eisemann et al. (1984): Insect Pain in the 21st Century.

Barrett, M., Fischer, B., & Raffel, T. (n.d.). Biologically Degenerate, Ecologically Marginal’: Parasites as a Case Study in Societal Values Impacting Ecological Research.

Fischer, B. (n.d.). Farming Insects in the Zoopolis?

Fischer, B., Gottlieb, J., Schnell, A. K., & Barrett, M. (n.d.). Defending and Refining the Birch et al. (2021) Precautionary Framework for Animal Sentience.

Fischer, B., & Barrett, M. (n.d.). On the Utility of the Pathological Complexity Thesis.

Gottlieb, J., & Fischer, B. (n.d.). Counting Subjects.

Graham, M., & Fischer, B. (n.d.). Research Sense: Incorporating Animals’ Sensory Capacities in Animal Care and Study Design.

Perl, C., Kissinger, C., Godfrey, K., Castillo, E., Fischer, B., & Barrett, M. (n.d.). Identifying trends in reporting on the ethical treatment of insects in research.

Barrett, M., Drewery, M. L., & Fischer, B. (2025). Entomologists’ Knowledge of, and Attitudes Towards, Insect Welfare in Research and Education.

Clatterbuck, H., & Fischer, B. (2025). Navigating Uncertainty about Sentience.

Fischer, B. (2025). Feeder Insects: The Ethics of Live Feeding in Zoos and Aquariums.

Kanepajs, A., & Fischer, B. (2025). What do Large Language Models Say About Animals? Investigating Risks of Animal Harm in Generated Text.

Fischer, B. (2025). Beyond Ordinal Scales: Making Animal Welfare Count in Policy Analysis.

Smith, K., & Fischer, B. (2025). Foundations Should Invest More in Staffing.

Fischer, B. (Ed.). (2024). Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-being Across Species. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/academic/product/weighing-animal-welfare-9780197745762

Fischer, B., & Jauernig, A. (2024). What Do We Owe Other Animals? New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/What-Do-We-Owe-Other-Animals-A-Debate/Fischer-Jauernig/p/book/9781032579573

Gottlieb, J., & Fischer, B. (n.d.). The Ethical Implications of Panpsychism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 102(4), 1030–1044. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Q94TIPWBYCYKZIAT65HE/full?target=10.1080/00048402.2024.2350708

Fischer, B., & Sebo, J. (2024). Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons: Important, Difficult, and Potentially Tractable. Utilitas, 36(1), 50–63. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/intersubstrate-welfare-comparisons-important-difficult-and-potentially-tractable/15D03CBD87325B517B112BFED0F02590

Barrett, M., Miranda, C., Perl, C., Martinez, A., Fischer, B., & Tomberlin, J. (2024). Grinding as a Slaughter Method for Farmed Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Larvae: Empirically-supported Recommendations to Achieve Instantaneous Killing. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 33(16), 1–9. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/grinding-as-a-slaughter-method-for-farmed-black-soldier-fly-hermetia-illucens-larvae-empirical-recommendations-to-achieve-instantaneous-killing/C26063788B2DB16DB74766815911BCAB

Barrett, M., & Fischer, B. (2024). Ethical Issues in Insect Monitoring. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 66, 1–6. Retrieved from https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1j~Jq7tYJFrEk~

Fischer, B., & Timmerman, T. (2024). Tatjana Visak’s Capacity for Welfare Across Species. Philosophical Review. Retrieved from https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article/133/3/315/390915/Capacity-for-Welfare-across-Species?guestAccessKey=e4176ab0-7723-43b5-aa18-14c523e56b49

Perl, C., & Fischer, B. (2024). Entomological Sample Sizes Should Be Lagom. American Entomologist, 70(2), 42–45. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/ae/article-abstract/70/2/42/7688518

Barrett, M., Drewery, M. L., & Fischer, R. W. (2024). Entomologists’ knowledge of, and attitudes towards, insect welfare in research and education. Ecological Entomology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13415

Fischer, B., Gamborg, C., Hampton, J., Palmer, C., & Sandoe, P. (2023). Wildlife Ethics: Animal Ethics in Wildlife Management and Conservation. New York: Blackwell. Retrieved from https://www.wiley.com/en-ae/Wildlife+Ethics%3A+The+Ethics+of+Wildlife+Management+and+Conservation-p-9781119611264

Weston, A., & Fischer, B. (2023). A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-21st-century-ethical-toolbox-9780197617557?cc=us&lang=en&

Fischer, B., Palmer, C., & Kasperbauer, T. (2023). Hybrid Theories, Psychological Plausibility, and the Human/Animal Divide. Philosophical Studies, 180, 1105–1123. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-021-01743-9

Kline, C., & Fischer, B. (2023). Morality on Holiday: Inspiring Ethical Behavior in Animal-based Tourism through Nonmoral Values. Tourism Recreation Research, 48(2), 147–158. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508281.2021.1911273

Fukuda, E. P., Carrasco, M. N., Perez, A., Fischer, R. W., & Drewery, M. L. (2023). U.S. consumer perceptions of insects as livestock feed: Ethical considerations. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 10(1), 125–139. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/23524588-20230028

Mahr, J. B., & Fischer, B. (2023). Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Non-human Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(3), 688–701. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916221120425

Barrett, M., Chia, S. Y., Fischer, B., & Tomberlin, J. K. (2023). Welfare Considerations for Farming Black Soldier Flies, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): A Model for the Insects as Food and Feed Industry. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 9(2), 119–148. Retrieved from https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/abs/10.3920/JIFF2022.0041

Budolfson, M., Fischer, B., & Scovronick, N. (2023). Animal Welfare: Methods to Improve Policy and Practice. Science, 381(6653), 32–34. Retrieved from https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-1297/full

Fischer, B. (2023). A (Begrudging and Partial) Defense of the Fishing Industry. In C. Abbate & C. Bobier (Eds.), New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives (pp. 165–178). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/New-Omnivorism-and-Strict-Veganism-Critical-Perspectives/Abbate-Bobier/p/book/9781032066035

Barrett, M., & Fischer, B. (2023). Challenges in Farmed Insect Welfare: Beyond the Question of Sentience. Animal Welfare, 32, 1–5. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/challenges-in-farmed-insect-welfare-beyond-the-question-of-sentience/551E073286168188E3E0EF9A62E7D7EF

Barrett, M., Fischer, B., & Buchmann, S. (2023). Informing Policy and Practice on Insect Pollinator Declines: Tensions between Conservation and Animal Welfare. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 1–6. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.1071251/full

Barrett, M., & Fischer, B. (2023). Should We Add Them? Asking Better Questions about Authorship. American Entomologist, 69(2), 47–50. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/69/2/47/7219086?login=false

Barrett, M., & Fischer, B. (2023). Don’t Lose the Louse: Articulating Our Values in Conservation. American Entomologist, 69(3), 38–41. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/69/3/38/7262901?login=false

Fischer, B., & Barrett, M. (2023). Between Wonder and Warfare: The Case of the Spotted Lanternfly. American Entomologist, 69(4), 46–49. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/69/4/46/7479671

Gilbertson, E. N., & Fischer, R. W. (2023). Self-Affirmation in Sled Dogs? Affordances, Perceptual Agency, and Extreme Sport. Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2023.2233702

Fischer, B. (2022). Climate Change, Human-wildlife Conflict and Biodiversity Loss. In A. Knight, C. Phillips, & P. Sparks (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare (pp. 311–320). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003182351-28/climate-change-human%E2%80%93wildlife-conflict-biodiversity-loss-bob-fischer

Wiegman, I. T., & Fischer, B. (2022). Disgust and the Logic of Contamination: Biology, Culture, and the Evolution of Norm (Over)Compliance. Mind & Language, 37(5), 993–1010. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mila.12368

Fischer, B., & Spiehler. (2022). It/He/They/She: On Pronoun Norms for All, Human and Nonhuman. Ergo, 9, 463–486. Retrieved from https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/2273/

Palmer, C., & Fischer, B. (2022). Should Global Conservation Initiatives Prioritize Phylogenetic Diversity? Philosophia, 50, 2283–2302. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-021-00422-7

Larson, B., Fischer, B., & Clayton, S. (2022). Should We Connect Children to Nature in the Anthropocene? People and Nature, 4(1), 53–61. Retrieved from https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10267

Fischer, B. (2022). Two Challenges to Johannsen on Habitat Destruction. Philosophia, 50, 865–873. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-021-00416-5

Fischer, B. (2021). Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction. New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Animal-Ethics-A-Contemporary-Introduction/Fischer/p/book/9781138484436

Fischer, B. (2021). Who Should Do What for the Wild Animals We Abandoned? Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research, 3(1), 38–56. Retrieved from https://brill.com/view/journals/jaae/3/1/article-p38_4.xml?language=en

Spiehler, A., & Fischer, B. (2021). Animal Agriculture, Wet Markets, and COVID-19: A Case Study in Indirect Activism. Food Ethics, 6(2), 1–20. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41055-021-00090-z

Hampton, J. O., Hyndman, T. H., Allen, B. L., & Fischer, B. (2021). Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices. Animals, 11(5), 1225. Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/5/1225

Milburn, J., & Fischer, B. (2021). The Freegan Challenge to Veganism. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 34, 1–19. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-021-09859-y

Fischer, B. (Ed.). (2020). College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues that Affect You. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/academic/product/college-ethics-9780190063337?cc=us&lang=en&

Fischer, B. (2020). The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Animal-Ethics-1st-Edition/Fischer/p/book/9781138095069

Fischer, B. (Ed.). (2020). Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues That Divide Us. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ethics-left-and-right-9780190882785?cc=us&lang=en&

Fischer, B. (2020). The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-of-Eating-Animals-Usually-Bad-Sometimes-Wrong-Often-Permissible/Fischer/p/book/9780367230043

Fischer, B. (2020). Comments on J. P. Andrew’s ‘The Insignificance of Taste.’ Southwest Philosophy Review, 36(2), 43–45. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/swphilreview/content/swphilreview_2020_0036_0002_0043_0045?file_type=pdf

Fischer, B. (2020). Boycotting and Public Mourning. Res Publica, 26, 89–102. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11158-019-09419-2

Fischer, B. (2020). Keep Your Cats Indoors: A Reply to Abbate. Acta Analytica, 35(3), 463–468. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12136-020-00431-3

Fischer, B. (2020). In Defense of Neural Disenhancement to Promote Animal Welfare. In A. Fenton, L. S. M. Johnson, & A. Shriver (Eds.), Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals (pp. 135–150). Cham: Springer. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31011-0_8

Weathers, S., Jaacks, L., Scherer, L. A., Caviola, L., Bump, J. B., Pfister, S., & Fischer, B. (2020). Quantifying the Valuation of Animal Welfare among Americans. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 33, 261–282. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-020-09824-1

Fischer, B. (2020). Rawls Goes to Church. Theologica, 4(1), 1–15. Retrieved from https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/theologica/article/view/20683

Fischer, B. (2020). Are Meat-Eaters Epistemically Unlucky? Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 9(9), 10–14. Retrieved from https://social-epistemology.com/2020/09/03/are-meat-eaters-epistemically-unlucky-bob-fischer/

Fischer, B., & Gilbertson, E. N. (2019). How Lewis Can Meet the Integration Challenge. Journal of Philosophical Research, 44, 129–144. Retrieved from https://www.pdcnet.org/jpr/content/jpr_2019_0999_10_14_143

Sandall, E., & Fischer, B. (2019). Be a Professional: Attend to the Insects. American Entomologist, 65(3), 176–179. Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/65/3/176/5571412?login=false

Fischer, B., & Larson, B. (2019). Collecting Insects to Conserve Them: A Call for Ethical Caution. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 12, 173–182. Retrieved from https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/icad.12344

Fischer, B. (2019). How to Reply to Some Ethical Objections to Entomophagy. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 112(6). Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/112/6/511/5567234?login=false

Fischer, B. (2019). Nonideal Ethics and Arguments against Eating Animals. Environmental Values, 28(4), 429–448. Retrieved from https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ev/2019/00000028/00000004/art00004

Fischer, B., & Timmerman, T. (2019). The Problem with Person-rearing Accounts of Moral Status. Thought, 8(2), 119–128. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/tht3.413

Fischer, B., & Milburn, J. (2019). In Defense of Backyard Chickens. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(1), 108–123. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/japp.12291

Fischer, B. (2019). Moral Bioenhancement Probably Won’t Improve Things for Animals (and May Make Them Worse). Topoi, 38, 141–151. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-017-9467-7

Abbate, C. E., & Fischer, B. (2019). Don’t Demean ‘Invasives’: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination. Animals, 9(11), 1–14. Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/11/871

Palmer, C., & Fischer, B. (2019). Just Policy Paralysis. Animal Sentience, 282. Retrieved from https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol4/iss27/3/

Fischer, B., & Nobis, N. (2019). Why Writing Better Will Make You a Better Person. Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-writing-better-will-make-you-a-better-person/

Fischer, J., & Fischer, B. (2019). Beyond the Neighborhood: Mister Rogers and Global Problems. In E. J. Mohr & H. Mohr (Eds.), Mister Rogers and Philosophy. La Salle, IL: Open Court. Retrieved from https://philpapers.org/rec/MOHMRA

Fischer, B. (2018). Arguments for Consuming Animal Products. In A. Barnhill, M. Budolfson, & T. Doggett (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (pp. 241–266). New York: Oxford University Press.

Fischer, B. (2018). C. I. Lewis and the Benacerraf Problem. Episteme, 15(2), 154–165.

Fischer, B. (2018). Teaching for Our Good. In S. Cahn, A. Bradner, & A. Mills (Eds.), Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching (pp. 159–169). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett.

Bower, M. E., & Fischer, B. (2018). Categorical Desires and the Badness of Animal Death. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 52, 97–111.

Fischer, B. (2018). Animal Rights and Incredulous Stares. Between the Species, 21(1), 216–231.

Demetriou, D., & Fischer, B. (2018). Dignitarian Hunting: A Rights-based Defense. Social Theory and Practice, 44(1), 49–73.

Bob, & Wiegman, I. T. (2018). Disassociation Intuitions. In Southwest Philosophy Review (1st ed., Vol. 34, pp. 85–92).

Ozturk, B. T., & Fischer, B. (2018). Speech and War: Rethinking the Ethics of Speech Restrictions. In D. A. Downs & C. W. Surpernant (Eds.), The Value and Limits of Academic Speech: Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives (pp. 187–204). New York: Routledge.

Fischer, B. (2018). Philosophy in Review.

Fischer, B., & Lamey, A. (2018). Field Deaths in Plant Agriculture. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 31, 409–428.

Fischer, B. (2018). Is Abolitionism Guilty of Racism? A Reply to Cordeiro-Rodrigues. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 31, 295–306.

Fischer, B. (2018). Individuals in the Wild. Animal Sentience, 2018(170).

Fischer, B. (2018). Insider Talk: Challenging Food Choices. The Prindle Post. Retrieved from https://www.prindlepost.org/2018/08/insider-talk-challenging-food-choices/

Fischer, B., & Ozturk, B. (2017). Facsimiles of Flesh. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34(4).

Fischer, B. (2017). What Can You Build. In S. Bacharach & R. Cook (Eds.), LEGO and Philosophy (pp. 207–216). New York: Blackwell.

Fischer, B. (2017). Modal Empiricism: Objection, Reply, Proposal. In B. Fischer & F. Leon (Eds.), Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (pp. 263–280). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Fischer, B., & Leon, F. (2017). Modal Epistemology After Rationalism. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Fischer, B. (2017). Modal Justification via Theories. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Elder, M., & Fischer, B. (2017). Focus on Fish: A Call to Effective Altruists. Essays in Philosophy, 18(1), 1–23.

Fischer, B. (2017). The Moral Objection to Modal Realism. Erkenntnis, 82(5), 1015–1030.

Fischer, B. (2017). Between the Species.

Fischer, B. (2017). Chignell, Cuneo, and Halteman’s Philosophy Comes to Dinner. The Philosophical Review.

Fischer, B. (2017). J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals. Metapsychology. Retrieved from http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7796&cn=139

Fischer, B. (2017). Wild Fish and Expected Utility. Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 8(1), 1–6. Retrieved from http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BIOETHICS/article/view/31078/20936

Fischer, B. (2017). Between the Species.

Fischer, B. (2017). Metapsychology.

Fischer, B. (2017). Modal Epistemology. In 1000-Word Philosophy. Retrieved from https://1000wordphilosophy.com/modal-epistemology/

Fischer, B. (2016). Bugging the Strict Vegan. Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics, 29(2), 255–263.

Fischer, R. W. (2016). Disgust as Heuristic. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19, 679–693.

Fischer, B. (2016). Hale on the Architecture of Modal Knowledge. Analytic Philosophy, 57(1), 76–89.

Fischer, B., & Leon, F. (2016). The Modal-Knowno Problem. Southwest Philosophy Review, 32(1), 225–232.

Fischer, B. (Ed.). (2016). College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues that Affect You. New York: Oxford University Press.

Fischer, B. (2016). You Can’t Buy Your Way Out of Veganism. Between the Species, 19(1), 193–209.

Fischer, B. (2016). What If Barron and Klein Are Right About Insect Sentience? Animal Sentience, 1(9). Retrieved from http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol1/iss9/8/

Fischer, B. (2016). A Theory-based Epistemology of Modality. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 46(2), 228–247.

Fischer, B. (2016). Ellen K. Silbergeld’s Chickenizing Farms & Food. Metapsychology. Retrieved from http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7785&cn=139

Fischer, R. W. (2015). Theory Selection in Modal Epistemology. American Philosophical Quarterly, 52(3), 289–304.

Bramble, B., & Fischer, B. (Eds.). (2015). The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat. New York: Oxford University Press.

Fischer, B. (2015). Against Blaming the Blameworthy. In B. Bramble & B. Fischer (Eds.), The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (pp. 185–198). New York: Oxford University Press.

Fischer, B., & McWilliams, J. (2015, August 16). When Vegans Won’t Compromise. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/when-vegans-wont-compromise/

Fischer, B. (2015, July 20). From Outrage to Integration. The Prindle Post. Retrieved from http://www.prindlepost.org/2015/07/from-outrage-to-integration/

Fischer, B. (2015, May 26). Why Act When It Doesn’t Make a Difference? The Prindle Post. Retrieved from http://www.prindlepost.org/2015/07/from-outrage-to-integration/

Fischer, R. W. (2014). Why It Doesn’t Matter Whether the Virtues Are Truth-Conducive. Synthese, 191, 1059–1073.

Fischer, R. W., & Gilbertson, E. N. (2014). Salvaging Serviceability in Metaphysics. Southwest Philosophy Review, 30(1), 105–115.

Fischer, R. W. (2014). Disgust and the Collection of Bovine Fetal Blood. In E. Aaltola & J. Hadley (Eds.), Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning  the Orthodoxy (pp. 151–164). London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Fischer, R. W. (2014). Meat: Ethical Considerations. In P. Thompson & D. Kaplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (pp. 1365–1371). New York: Springer.

Fischer, B. (2014). David Kaspar’s Intuitionism. Philosophy in Review. Retrieved from https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/13128/4036

Fischer, R. W. (2014). Lance Rips’ Lines of Thought. Philosophical Psychology.

Fischer, R. W. (2012). Modal Knowledge, in Theory. Southwest Philosophy Review, 28(1), 227–236.