(The Conversation) — A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining a following around the globe. Most of these people ...

Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Stephen Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, advances an interesting point about animism. Broadly defined, animism is the belief ...

Justine Buck Quijada has received research funding from the University of Chicago, IREX, Fulbright-Hays, The Institute for Citizens and Scholars (previously the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), the Max ...