Gary Steiner

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.

Works

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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.