Tzachi Zamir (Hebrew: צחי זמיר; born February 13, 1967^[1]) is an Israeliphilosopher andliterary critic specialising in thephilosophy of literature, thephilosophy of theatre, andanimal ethics. He isProfessor of English and General & Comparative Literature at theHebrew University of Jerusalem.

Zamir studied at theHebrew University of Jerusalem andTel-Aviv University, going on to be aRothschild andFulbrightpostdoctoral fellow in philosophy atThe University of Chicago. He joined the English department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 as a lecturer, and is nowProfessor of English and General & Comparative Literature.^[2]

Zamir is the author of the 2006 bookDouble Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama^[3][4] and the 2007 bookEthics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation,^[5][6][7] both published byPrinceton University Press. His 2014 bookActs: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self was published by theUniversity of Michigan Press.^[8][9][10] In 2018, he published both the monographAscent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost^[11][12][13] and theedited collectionShakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives withOxford University Press,^[14] and in 2020 he publishedJust Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice withRoutledge.^[15]

While most contemporary scholars involved with animal ethics have written in favour ofveganism, Zamir however has defendedvegetarianism.^[6][16][17]

Zamir lives with his wife and three children inHod HaSharon.^[18]

• "Veganism" (Journal of Social Philosophy, 2004)
• Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton University Press, 2006)
• Ethics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation (Princeton University Press, 2007)
• "Killing for Pleasure" (Between the Species, 2011)
• Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self (University of Michigan Press, 2014)
• Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice (Routledge, 2020)

• https://tzachizamir.huji.ac.il/

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