Notable ideas Entangled empathy Name Lori Gruen | Role Philosopher | |
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Main interests Feminist philosophy, Animal ethics, Political philosophy Areas of interest Political philosophy, Feminist philosophy Books Ethics and Animals: An Introduction, Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals | ||
Philosophical era Contemporary philosophy | ||
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Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Science in Society, at Wesleyan University.
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- Philosophers empathy circle for against empathy lori gruen jesse prinz edwin rutsch
- Professor lori gruen on the last 1 000 research chimpanzees
- Career
- Hypatia
- References
Specializing in animal ethics, Gruen is the author of several books, including Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (2011) and Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals (2015). She is the creator of first100chimps.wesleyan.edu, a memorial for the first 100 chimpanzees used in research in the United States.
Professor lori gruen on the last 1 000 research chimpanzees
Career
After obtaining a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Colorado in 1983, Gruen spent a year as a graduate student at the University of Arizona, then worked for the animal liberation movement. In 1987 she published her first book, Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide, written with Peter Singer and illustrated by David Hine, then returned to the University of Colorado in 1989, where she completed her PhD in 1994.
Her teaching posts have included the University of British Columbia (1991–1992); Lafayette College (1994–1997); the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997); and Stanford University (1994–1999). After joining Wesleyan University in 2000 as an assistant professor, she became chair of the philosophy department in 2010, professor in the feminist, gender and sexuality studies program in 2011, and the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy in 2015. She also co-coordinates Wesleyan animal studies, a summer fellowship program.
Hypatia
Gruen served as the co-editor of Hypatia, the feminist philosophy journal, from 2008 to 2010, and as a member of its board of associate editors from 2010 to 2015. She edited two special editions of the journal: 25th Anniversary: Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures (2010) and, with Kari Weil, Animal Others (2012).
In April 2017 Gruen became involved in the Hypatia transracialism controversy. The journal had published a peer-reviewed article by Rebecca Tuvel, assistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College, in which Tuvel argued that factors that support changing gender roles also support transracialism. The article and its author were criticized on Facebook and Twitter, with critics charging that the article failed to engage sufficiently with scholars belonging to the communities it discussed, and an open letter circulated, asking the journal to retract the article. According to Jesse Singal of New York magazine, Gruen was one of the letter's top signatories. Gruen had also been a member of Tuvel's dissertion committee in 2014. There was widespread support for Tuvel from the academic community, and Hypatia's editor-in-chief stood by the article. Singal called the affair a "massive internet witch-hunt".