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Born | August 22, 1956 |
Nationality | American |
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 |
Occupation | Philosopher |
Employer | Bucknell University |
Website | Homepage |
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. He is the author of Descartes as a Moral Thinker (2004), Anthropocentrism and its Discontents (2005), and Animals and the Moral Community (2008).