Gary Steiner is an American
moral philosopher
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns ma ...
, and the John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering ...
. Steiner's particular focus is
animal rights
Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all Animal consciousness, sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their Utilitarianism, utility for humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding s ...
,
Descartes, and 19th- and 20th-century
continental philosophy.
Works
;Books
*''Descartes As a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism''. Humanity Books, 2004.
*''Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy''. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
*''Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship''. Columbia University Press, 2008.
*''Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism''. Columbia University Press, 2013.
;
;Translations
*Klaus Hartmann. "Marx's Capital from the Viewpoint of Transcendental Philosophy," ''Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology'' 24, 1993, pp. 157–171.
*Karl Löwith. ''Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism''. Columbia University Press, 1998.
*Gerold Prauss. ''Knowing & Doing in Heidegger's Being & Time''. Humanity Books, 1999.
*Dominique Lestel. ''Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto''. Columbia University Press, 2016.
;
;Selected articles
*"Rethinking the Cognitive Abilities of Animals," Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell (eds.). ''Experiencing Animals: Encounters Between Animal and Human Minds''. Columbia University Press (forthcoming).
*"Animal Rights and the Default of Postmodernism," Evangelos Protopapadakis (ed.). ''Animal Rights - Animal Liberation''. Berlin: Logos Verlag (forthcoming).
*Steiner, Gary
"Animal, Vegetable, Miserable" ''The New York Times'', 21 November 2009.
See also
*
Animal cognition
Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative psychology. It has also been strongly influen ...
*
List of animal rights advocates
Notes
Further reading
*
Francione, Gary"Discussion with Professor Gary Steiner" abolitionistapproach.com, 6 December 2009.
*Steiner, Gary
"Tierrecht und die Grenzen des Postmodernismus" lecture at the University of Heidelberg, 15 March 2010.
American animal rights scholars
Animal cognition writers
Living people
Moral philosophers
21st-century American philosophers
Yale University alumni
Bucknell University faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
1956 births
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