Gary Steiner

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Gary Steiner (born August 22, 1956 ) is an American philosopher .

His area of ​​research is the moral status of animals , the history of modern philosophy, Jacques Derrida , European, especially German, 19th and 20th century philosophy and Descartes .

Steiner first studied economics at the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated in 1977 with a BA . He received his BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 and his PhD in Philosophy on The Idea of ​​a Ground for Ethical Commitment in Descartes and Heidegger from Yale University in 1991 . He was then a Graduate Fellow at Yale University until 1986. He then accepted various professorships at Bucknell University , where he has held the John Howard Harris Professorship since 2005 . (Status 2011)

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Books

• Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism: A Vegan Manifesto , Columbia University Press , 2012
• Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship , Columbia University Press, 2008
• Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy , University of Pittsburgh Press , 2005
  • Rosemary-Claire Collard: Book review of Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Thought by Gary Steiner. . In: Journal for Critical Animal Studies . 12, No. 1, 2011, ISSN  1188-9071 , pp. 187-189.
• Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism, Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Series, Prometheus / Humanity Books, 2004

items

• "Religious Faith," Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. Larry Nolan, Cambridge University Press (2012)
• "Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Cosmopolitanism," Anthropocentrism: Human, Animals, Environments, ed. Rob Boddice, Leiden: Brill, 2012
• Justice Towards Animals Demands Veganism (PDF file; 73 kB) , in The Abolitionist Fall 2011
• "Animal Rights and the Default of Postmodernism," Animal Rights - Animal Liberation, ed. Evangelos Protopapadakis, Berlin: Logos Verlag , 2011
• “ Animal rights and the mistake of meliorism ”, tier-im-fokus.ch March 2011. As a comment on an article by Jean-Claude Wolf : Traditional animal protection, radical animal protection and ethical meliorism
• "The Epistemic Status of Medicine in Descartes," International Philosophical Quarterly 51, no. 1 (March, 2011): 51-68
• "Animal Rights and the Limits of Postmodernism: The Case of Derrida" [Animal Rights and the Limits of Postmodernism: The Case of Derrida], ALTEXethik 27 (2010): 3–10
• "The Cultural Significance of Rembrandt's' Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp ', “History of European Ideas 36 (2010): 273-9
• " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable " New York Times , Sunday, November 22, 2009, Week in Review, p. 12
• "Plutarch on the Question of Justice for Animals," Ploutarchos 7 (2009/2010): 73-82
• "Cosmic Justice," Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, expanded ed., Ed. Marc Bekoff, Greenwood Publishing , 2009, vol. 1, pp. 149-53
• "Descartes," History of Western Philosophy of Religion, 5 vols., Ed. Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis, Oxford University Press / Acumen Publishers, 2009, vol. 3, pp. 101-12
• "The animal in Aristotle and the Stoics: Evolution of a cosmic principle" [Animals in Aristotle and the Stoics: The Evolution of a Cosmic Principle], Humans and animals in antiquity - drawing and crossing boundaries, ed. Annetta Alexandridis, Lorenz Winkler-Horacek , and Markus Wild , Reichert-Verlag , 2009, pp. 27-46
• "What I Learned from a Cat that No Philosopher Could Teach Me," What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Cat, ed. Steven D. Hales, Open Court, 2008, pp. 3-14
• " Foreword " to Gary Francione, Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation, Columbia University Press, 2008, pp. ix-xii
• "Cosmic Holism and Obligations Toward Animals: A Challenge to Liberal Individualism," Journal of Animal Law and Ethics 2 (2007): 1-20
• "Descartes, Christianity, and Contemporary Speciesism," A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics, ed. Paul Waldau and Kimberly Patton, Columbia University Press, 2006, pp. 117-131
• "The Perils of a Total Critique of Reason: Rethinking Heidegger's Influence," Philosophy Today 47 (2003): 93-111
• "Descartes on the Moral Status of Animals," Archive for the History of Philosophy 80 (1998): 268-91
• "'This project is mad': Descartes, Derrida, and the Notion of Philosophical Crisis," Man and World 30 (1997): 179-198
• Four Articles for a Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory , Blackwell , 1995: "Transcendental Philosophy"; "Maurice Merleau-Ponty"; "Manfred Frank"; "Ernst Tugendhat"
• “Heidegger's Reflection on Alétheia: Merely a Terminological Shift?” Interpretation 13 (1986): 38–50

Interviews & lectures

• Adam Roufberg: (January 2011) radioactivelunch.com
• Discussion with Gary Francione : (December 6, 2009) abolitionistapproach.com
• Clip of the new religious group “Supreme Master” around Ching Hai : (2009) suprememastertv.com
• Lecture on the paper " Animal Law and the Limits of Postmodernism " at Heidelberg University . (March 15, 2010)
• Interview with Klaus Petrus from tier-im-fokus.ch , translated by Florian Wüstholz (2010)