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Lori Gruen is an American philosopher, ethicist, and author who is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. "Lori Gruen, PhD", Wesleyan University. Gruen is also Professor of Science in Society, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan.
A scholar specializing in animal ethics, Gruen is the author of several books, including Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (2011) and Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals (2015). She is the creator of first100chimps.wesleyan.edu, a memorial for the first 100 chimpanzees used in research in the United States.
Gruen has written for Time magazine, Al Jazeera, and the Washington Post.
Her teaching posts have included the University of British Columbia (1991–1992); Lafayette College (1994–1997); the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997); and Stanford University (1994–1999). 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. She also co-coordinates a summer fellowship program in animal studies at Wesleyan.
In April 2017, Hypatia published a peer-reviewed article by Rhodes College philosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel that compared transgender and transracial identities. New York magazine reported that Gruen was a lead signatory of an open letter calling for the retraction of the article by her former dissertation advisee. Hypatia editor-in-chief stood by the publication of the article.
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Gruen served as the co-editor of , the feminist philosophy journal, from 2008 to 2010, and as a member of its board of associate editors from 2010 to 2015. She edited two special editions of the journal: 25th Anniversary: Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures (2010) and, with Kari Weil, Animal Others (2012).Wright, Laura (2015). The Vegan Studies Project. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, p. 15. The journal published a symposium in 2017 on Gruen's idea of "entangled empathy".
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Categories: Official Website, 1962 Births, 21st-century American Philosophers, 21st-century American Women, American Animal Welfare Scholars, American Ethicists, American Political Philosophers, American Women Philosophers, Animal Ethicists, Scholars Of Feminist Philosophy, Living People, Wesleyan University Faculty
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