Kathy Rudy’s Feel-Good Ethics

Gary Steiner is John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism (Prometheus/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); and Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2012).