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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Author

Name
  
Gary Steiner


Website
  
Homepage

Occupation
  
Philosopher

Employer
  
Bucknell University

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Born
  
August 22, 1956 (age 67) (
1956-08-22
)

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

Books
  
Animals and the Moral Co, Animals and the Limits of, Anthropocentrism and its discontents, Descartes as a moral thinker

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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).

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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.
  • References

    Gary Steiner Wikipedia