Lori Gruen is an American philosopher, ethicist, and author who is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy atWesleyan University inMiddletown, Connecticut.[3] Gruen is also Professor of Science in Society, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan.[3]
A scholar specializing inanimal ethics, Gruen is the author of several books, includingEthics and Animals: An Introduction (2011) andEntangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals (2015). She is the creator offirst100chimps.wesleyan.edu, a memorial for the first 100 chimpanzees used in research in the United States.[4][5]
Gruen has written forTime magazine,[6]Al Jazeera,[7] and theWashington Post.[8]
After obtaining aBA in philosophy from theUniversity of Colorado Boulder in 1983, Gruen spent a year as a graduate student at theUniversity of Arizona,[9] then worked for the animal liberation movement.[10] In 1987 she published her first book,Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide, written withPeter Singer and illustrated byDavid Hine, then returned to the University of Colorado Boulder in 1989, where she completed her PhD in 1994.[9]
Her teaching posts have included theUniversity of British Columbia (1991–1992);Lafayette College (1994–1997); theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997); andStanford University (1994–1999).[9] 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.[9][11] She also co-coordinates a summer fellowship program in animal studies at Wesleyan.[12]
Gruen served as the co-editor ofHypatia, thefeminist philosophy journal, from 2008 to 2010, and as a member of its board of associate editors from 2010 to 2015.[13] She edited two special editions of the journal:25th Anniversary: Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures (2010)[13][14] and, with Kari Weil,Animal Others (2012).[13][15] The journal published a symposium in 2017 on Gruen's idea of "entangled empathy".[16][17][18][19]
In April 2017,Hypatiapublished a peer-reviewed article byRhodes College philosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel that comparedtransgender andtransracial identities.New York magazine reported that Gruen was a lead signatory of an open letter calling for the retraction of the article by her former dissertation advisee.[20]Hypatia's editor-in-chief stood by the publication of the article.[21]
(2007) with Laura Grabel and Peter Singer (eds.).Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues. Oxford: Blackwell.
(2011)Ethics and Animals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2012) with Dale Jemieson and Christopher Schlottmann (eds.).Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
(2014) (ed.)The Ethics of Captivity. New York: Oxford University Press.
(2014) with Carol J. Adams (eds.).Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
(2015)Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for our Relationships with Animals. New York: Lantern.
(2018) with Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (eds.).Animaladies: Gender, Animals, and Madness. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
(2018) (ed.)Critical Terms for Animal Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
^Gorman, James; Lin, Thomas; Louttit, Meghan (14 November 2011)."Chimpanzee Stories".The New York Times.Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved27 February 2017.
^"The first 100". first100chimps.wesleyan.edu.Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved14 June 2019.
^Debes, Remy (Spring 2017). "Understanding Others in an Alienating World: Comments on Lori Gruen'sEntangled Empathy".Hypatia.32 (2):428–438.doi:10.1111/hypa.12329.S2CID151875547.
^Cherry, Myisha (Spring 2017). "What an [En]tangled Web We Weave: Emotions, Motivation, and Rethinking Us and the 'Other'".Hypatia.32 (2):439–451.doi:10.1111/hypa.12325.S2CID151501184.
