Michael Huemer
Michael Huemer | |
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Born | December 27, 1969 |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Rutgers University (PhD) |
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Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
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Institutions | University of Colorado, Boulder |
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Notable ideas | Phenomenal conservatism |
Website | https://www.owl232.net/ |
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Michael Huemer (.
Education and career
Huemer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and earned his Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 1998 under the supervision of Peter D. Klein.[3]
Philosophical work
Huemer's book Ethical Intuitionism (2005) was reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,[4] Philosophy and Phenomenological Research[5] and Mind.[6]
Huemer is the author of The Problem of Political Authority (2013), which argues that the modern arguments for political authority fail and that society can function properly without state coercion.[7]
Vegetarianism
Huemer is an advocate of ethical vegetarianism. In 2016, Huemer debated Bryan Caplan on the ethical treatment of animals, including insects.[8] In 2018, Huemer commented: "In the overwhelming majority of actual cases, meat eaters do not have any reasons that could plausibly be claimed to justify the pain and suffering caused by their practice."[9]
His Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism (2019) is a series of dialogues on the ethics of eating meat. Peter Singer, who wrote the foreword to book, commented that "In the future, when people ask me why I don't eat meat, I will tell them to read this book."[10][11]
Books
Authored
- Skepticism and the Veil of Perception (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)
- Ethical Intuitionism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
- The Problem of Political Authority (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
- Approaching Infinity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
- Paradox Lost (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
- Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism (Routledge, 2019)
- Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy (Independently published, 2021)
- Justice Before the Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Co-Authored
- Is Political Authority an Illusion?: A Debate (Co-author Daniel Layman, Routledge, 2022)
- Can We Know Anything?: A Debate (Co-author Bryan Frances, Routledge, Forthcoming)
Edited
- Epistemology: Contemporary Readings (Routledge, 2002)
References
- ^ "Michael Huemer". 24 March 2015.
- JSTOR 20532700.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae".
- ISSN 1538-1617.
- JSTOR 40380419.
- ISSN 0026-4423.
- JSTOR 24563269.
- ^ "Do animals have rights? Professors Bryan Caplan and Michael Huemer discuss". Learnliberty.org. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ "Debate: Libertarians Should Be Vegetarians". Reason.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ "Interview with Michael Huemer, the author of ”Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism". Animainternational.org. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ "Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism". Routledge.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
Further reading
- McGrew, Timothy (12 May 2002). "Michael Huemer: Skepticism and the Veil of Perception". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
- Seddon, Fred (2007). "Review: Recent Writings on Ethics: Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics by Tara Smith". The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. 8 (2): 271–284. S2CID 246614985.