Peter Wenz
Wenz in 2006
Born	United States
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Applied ethics,Philosophy of law,Environmental ethics,Political philosophy

Peter S. Wenz (born 1945) is an American philosopher who specializes inenvironmental ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy and Legal Studies at theUniversity of Illinois at Springfield.^[1]

Wenz received his B.A. in philosophy in 1967 from Harpur College of the State University of New York at Binghamton (nowBinghamton University) and his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1971 from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison. He taught at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Stevens Point from 1971 to 1976 before moving toSpringfield. He has also taught at Polytechnic of the South Bank (nowSouth Bank University) in London, England (1980–81); atAberdeen University in Scotland (1986–87); atOxford University in England (fall 2003) and at The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand (2007). He teaches regularly at theChautauqua Institution inNew York State. Wenz is Professor of Philosophy and Legal Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, University Scholar of the University of Illinois, and Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at theSouthern Illinois University School of Medicine.

He is best known for work inenvironmental justice, being among those who simultaneously coined the term in the mid-1980s. His most widely reprinted articles are "Just Garbage" and "Minimal Moderate and Extreme Moral Pluralism." Wenz has written academic papers onanimal rights andvegetarianism. His specialties include environmental ethics, political remedial philosophy, and medical ethics.

• Wenz, Peter S.An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism.Ethics and Animals, 1984. Reprinted inEthical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer.^[2]
• Wenz, Peter S. (1988).Environmental Justice. New York: SUNY.
• Wenz, Peter S. (1992).Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom. Philadelphia:Temple University Press.
• Laura Westra; Peter S. Wenz, eds. (1995).Faces of Environmental Racism. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield.ISBN 978-0-8476-8045-0.
• Wenz, Peter S. (1996).Nature's Keeper. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Wenz, Peter S. (2001).Environmental Ethics Today. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Wenz, Peter S. (2007).Political Philosophies in Moral Conflict. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
• Wenz, Peter S. (2009).Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates., Cambridge. MA: MIT Press.
• Peter S. Wenz. "Tierrechte im sozialen Kontext".Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tierethik (Hrsg.).Tierrechte - Eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung. Erlangen 2007.ISBN 978-3-89131-417-3
• Wenz, Peter S. (2012).Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda. Cambridge. MA: The MIT Press.

• Video of Peter Wenz lecture "Animal Rights in Social Context" at the Interdisciplinary Lectures on Animal Rights at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg on 31 May 2006
• Peter Wenz's web page at the University of Illinois at Springfield

• 1945 births
• American animal rights scholars
• American non-fiction environmental writers
• American philosophy academics
• Harpur College alumni
• Living people
• People from Springfield, Illinois
• Southern Illinois University faculty
• University of Illinois at Springfield faculty
• University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
• University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point faculty

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