I received an e-mail drawing my attention to the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, a recently launched think tank whose mission is to foster “the advancement of progressive thought about animals.” The director is Rev. Andrew Linzey, who regular readers will be familiar with (I reviewed Linzey’s Animal Theology here). Although it doesn’t appear to be up and running yet, the website says they plan on establishing an online archive of papers on animal ethics.

The center was established in honor of the Spanish philosopher José Ferrater Mora, who, among other things, apparently garnered some negative publicity in Spain after writing in opposition to bullfighting.