Gary Steiner
Steiner, 2015
Born	(1956-08-22)August 22, 1956 (age 69)
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[1]
Occupation	Philosopher
Employer	Bucknell University
Website	Homepage

Gary Steiner is an Americanmoral philosopher, and the John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy atBucknell University. Steiner's particular focus isanimal rights,Descartes, and 19th- and 20th-centurycontinental philosophy.

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, 2013.
• What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals: The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship. Routledge, 2024.

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.

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."Animal, Vegetable, Miserable",The New York Times, 21 November 2009.

• Animal cognition
• List of animal rights advocates

Wikiquote has quotations related toGary Steiner.

• Francione, Gary."Discussion with Professor Gary Steiner", abolitionistapproach.com, 6 December 2009.
• Steiner, Gary."Tierrecht und die Grenzen des Postmodernismus", lecture at the University of Heidelberg, 15 March 2010.

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