Gary Steiner
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| Born | August 22, 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | BA (Economics, 1977) University of California, Los Angeles Santa Clara University School of Law (1977–1978) BA (Philosophy, 1981) University of California, Berkeley PhD (Philosophy, 1992) Yale University[1] |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Employer | Bucknell University |
| Website | Homepage |
Gary Steiner is an American moral philosopher, and the John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. Steiner's particular focus is animal rights, Descartes, and 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy. He is the author of Descartes as a Moral Thinker (2004), Anthropocentrism and its Discontents (2005), and Animals and the Moral Community (2008).[1]
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 (forthcoming).
- 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.
- 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.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Curriculum Vitae", Bucknell University, accessed 8 June 2012.
Further reading
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Wikiquote has quotations related to: Gary Steiner |
- 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.
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