Gary Steiner
{{short description|American philosopher}}
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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[http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gsteiner/cv.htm "Curriculum Vitae"], Bucknell University, accessed 8 June 2012.
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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.
Works
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- 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, 2013.
- What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals: The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship. Routledge, 2024.
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;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.
- Dominique Lestel. Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto. Columbia University Press, 2016.
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;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).
- "Descartes, Christianity, and Contemporary Speciesism" Evangelos Protopapadakis (ed.).Animal Ethics. Past and Present Perspectives. Berlin: Logos Verlag (2012).
- Steiner, Gary. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22steiner.html?_r=1&ref=global "Animal, Vegetable, Miserable"], The New York Times, 21 November 2009.
See also
Notes
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Further reading
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- Francione, Gary. [http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/commentary-discussion-with-professor-gary-steiner/ "Discussion with Professor Gary Steiner"], abolitionistapproach.com, 6 December 2009.
- Steiner, Gary. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjhZSr9q3CQ "Tierrecht und die Grenzen des Postmodernismus"], lecture at the University of Heidelberg, 15 March 2010.
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