Mylan Engel Jr.

Mylan Engel Jr. (born 1960) is a full professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

Biography

Born in Alabama and educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of Arizona, he was hired by Northern Illinois University in 1988. Engel has also served as Guest Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (1999) and University of Maribor, Slovenia (1999–2002).

Engel's specialties are epistemology, philosophy of religion, Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, animal ethics, and environmental ethics.

Engel is a "moral vegetarian" ( vegan)—the belief that we are morally obligated to refrain from eating meat—and has argued that virtually all humans hold beliefs that, if consistently applied, would make them moral vegetarians as well. Engel has contributed to the study of animal rights and edited the volume ''The Moral Rights of Animals'' with Gary Lynn Comstock in 2016.

In his spare time, Engel practices karate. He also offered a beginners course for students at Northern Illinois University.

Professor Engel has been Executive Secretary of The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals since September, 2002.

Selected publications

"Fishy Reasoning and the Ethics of Eating"
''Between the Species'': Vol. 23: Iss. 1, Article 3.
*"The Moral Rights of Animals". Lexington Books, 2016.
"Vegetarianism"
In ''The Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics'', edited by Henk ten Have. Dordrecht: Springer 2016.
*"Tierethik, Tierrechte und moralische Integrität"
Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tierethik
(Hrsg.).
Tierrechte - Eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung
'. Erlangen 2007.
"The Immorality of Eating Meat"
Louis P. Pojman (Hrsg.). ''The Moral Life''. New York/Oxford 2000.
*"Internalism, the Gettier Problem, and Metaepistemological Skepticism", '' Grazer Philosophische Studien'' 60 (2000).
*"The Possibility of Maximal Greatness Examined: A Critique of Plantinga's Modal Ontological Argument", ''Acta Analytica'' 19 (1997).
*"Coarsening Brand on Events, While Proliferating Davidsonian Events", ''Grazer Philosophische Studien'' 47 (1994).
*"The Problem of Other Minds: A Reliable Solution", ''Acta Analytica'' 11 (1993).
*"Is Epistemic Luck Compatible with Knowledge?", ''Southern Journal of Philosophy'' XXX 2 (1992).
*"Personal and Doxastic Justification in Epistemology", ''Philosophical Studies'' 67 (1992).
*"Russellizing Russell: A Reply to His 'A Critique of Lehrer's Coherentism'", ''Philosophical Studies'' 66 (1992).
*"Inconsistency: The Coherence Theorist's Nemesis", ''Grazer Philosophische Studien'' 40 (1991).
*"Coherentism Reliabilized", ''Acta Analytica'' (1986).

See also

*American philosophy
* List of American philosophers

References

External links

Mylan Engel Jr.



"Video of his lecture "Do Animals Have Rights, and Does It Matter if They Don't?" at the Interdisciplinary Lectures on Animal Rights at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg on the 7th of June 2006"

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1960 births
American animal rights scholars
Animal ethicists
Bioethicists
Living people
Northern Illinois University faculty
Philosophers from Alabama
Philosophers from Arizona
University of Arizona alumni
University of Maribor faculty
Vanderbilt University alumni
American veganism activists