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Lori Gruen

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Lori Gruen
EducationUniversity of Colorado(BA,PhD)
Occupation(s)William Griffin Professor of Philosophy,Wesleyan University
Known forFeminist philosophy,animal ethics,political philosophy
AwardsWesleyan Prize for Excellence in Research[1]
Notable ideasEntangled empathy[2]
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Lori Gruenis an American philosopher, ethicist, and author who is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy atWesleyan UniversityinMiddletown, Connecticut.[3]Gruen is also Professor of Science in Society, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan.[3]

A scholar specializing inanimal ethics,Gruen is the author of several books, includingEthics and Animals: An Introduction(2011) andEntangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals(2015). She is the creator offirst100chimps.wesleyan.edu,a memorial for the first 100 chimpanzees used in research in the United States.[4][5]

Gruen has written forTimemagazine,[6]Al Jazeera,[7]and theWashington Post.[8]

Career

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After obtaining aBAin philosophy from theUniversity of Colorado Boulderin 1983, Gruen spent a year as a graduate student at theUniversity of Arizona,[9]then worked for the animal liberation movement.[10]In 1987 she published her first book,Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide,written withPeter Singerand illustrated byDavid Hine,then returned to the University of Colorado Boulder in 1989, where she completed her PhD in 1994.[9]

Her teaching posts have included theUniversity of British Columbia(1991–1992);Lafayette College(1994–1997); theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill(1997); andStanford University(1994–1999).[9]After joining Wesleyan University in 2000 as an assistant professor, she became chair of the philosophy department in 2010, professor in the feminist, gender and sexuality studies program in 2011, and the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy in 2015.[9][11]She also co-coordinates a summer fellowship program in animal studies at Wesleyan.[12]

Hypatia

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Gruen served as the co-editor ofHypatia,thefeminist philosophyjournal, from 2008 to 2010, and as a member of its board of associate editors from 2010 to 2015.[13]She edited two special editions of the journal:25th Anniversary: Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures(2010)[13][14]and, with Kari Weil,Animal Others(2012).[13][15]The journal published a symposium in 2017 on Gruen's idea of "entangled empathy".[16][17][18][19]

In April 2017,Hypatiapublished a peer-reviewed articlebyRhodes Collegephilosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel that comparedtransgenderandtransracialidentities.New Yorkmagazine reported that Gruen was a lead signatory of an open letter calling for the retraction of the article by her former dissertation advisee.[20]Hypatia's editor-in-chief stood by the publication of the article.[21]

Selected works

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  • (1987) withPeter SingerandDavid Hine.Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide.London: Camden Press.
  • (1994) with Dale Jamieson (eds.).Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy.New York: Oxford University Press.
  • (1997) with George E. Panichas (eds.).Sex, Morality and the Law.New York: Routledge.
  • (2007) with Laura Grabel and Peter Singer (eds.).Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues.Oxford: Blackwell.
  • (2011)Ethics and Animals.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • (2012) with Dale Jemieson and Christopher Schlottmann (eds.).Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Second Edition.New York: Oxford University Press.
  • (2014) (ed.)The Ethics of Captivity.New York: Oxford University Press.
  • (2014) with Carol J. Adams (eds.).Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth.New York: Bloomsbury Press.
  • (2015)Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for our Relationships with Animals.New York: Lantern.
  • (2018) with Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (eds.).Animaladies: Gender, Animals, and Madness.New York: Bloomsbury Press.
  • (2018) (ed.)Critical Terms for Animal Studies.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

References

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  1. ^https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2020/10/26/sumarsam-gruen-herbst-honored-with-faculty-research-prizes/
  2. ^Glass, E."Introducing Lori Gruen".CUNY The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies.CUNY Graduate Center.Retrieved29 April2012.
  3. ^ab"Lori Gruen, PhD",Wesleyan University.
  4. ^Gorman, James; Lin, Thomas; Louttit, Meghan (14 November 2011)."Chimpanzee Stories".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on 13 September 2012.Retrieved27 February2017.
  5. ^"The first 100".first100chimps.wesleyan.edu.Archivedfrom the original on 11 December 2012.Retrieved14 June2019.
  6. ^Gruen, Lori (14 October 2014)."Why Euthanizing Ebola Animals Is a Dangerous Road to Go Down".Time.
  7. ^"Lori Gruen".Al Jazeera America.
  8. ^Gruen, Lori (1 June 2016)."The Cincinnati Zoo's problem wasn't that it killed its gorilla. It's that it's a zoo".The Washington Post.
  9. ^abcd"Lori Gruen",Wesleyan University.
  10. ^Gruen, Lori (2015).Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals.Brooklyn: Lantern Books, p. 1.
  11. ^"Lori Gruen PhD".lorigruen. Archived fromthe originalon 2016-03-04.Retrieved2017-06-03.
  12. ^Gorman, James (2 January 2012)."Animal Studies Cross Campus to Lecture Hall".The New York Times.
  13. ^abc"Hypatia Honor Roll".Hypatia.Archived fromthe originalon 18 November 2016.
  14. ^Gruen, Lori; Wylie, Alison, eds. (Fall 2010)."Feminist Legacies / Feminist Futures: 25thAnniversary Special Issue".Hypatia.25(4).
  15. ^Wright, Laura (2015).The Vegan Studies Project.Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, p. 15.
  16. ^Meyers, Diana Tietjens(Spring 2017). "Commentary onEntangled Empathyby Lori Gruen ".Hypatia.32(2): 415–427.doi:10.1111/hypa.12320.S2CID152110757.
  17. ^Debes, Remy (Spring 2017). "Understanding Others in an Alienating World: Comments on Lori Gruen'sEntangled Empathy".Hypatia.32(2): 428–438.doi:10.1111/hypa.12329.S2CID151875547.
  18. ^Cherry, Myisha (Spring 2017). "What an [En]tangled Web We Weave: Emotions, Motivation, and Rethinking Us and the 'Other'".Hypatia.32(2): 439–451.doi:10.1111/hypa.12325.S2CID151501184.
  19. ^Gruen, Lori (Spring 2017). "Expressing Entangled Empathy: A Reply".Hypatia.32(2): 452–462.doi:10.1111/hypa.12326.S2CID152207814.
  20. ^Singal, Jesse (2 May 2017)."This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like".New York.Archivedfrom the original on 12 May 2019.
  21. ^McKenzie, Lindsay; Harris, Adam; Zamudio-Suaréz, Fernanda (6 May 2017)."A Journal Article Provoked a Schism in Philosophy. Now the Rifts Are Deepening".The Chronicle of Higher Education.Archivedfrom the original on 5 April 2019.

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