selected publications academic article Croney, C., Muir, W., Ni, J., Widmar, N. O., & Varner, G. (2018). An Overview of Engineering Approaches to Improving Agricultural Animal Welfare. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 31(2), 143-159. Palmer, C., & Varner, G. (2018). Introduction to the Special Edition on Engineering and Animal Ethics. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 31(2), 137-142. Varner, G. (2011). Speciesism and Reverse Speciesism. Ethics Policy & Environment. 14(2), 171-173. Varner, G. (2008). Utilitarianism and the Evolution of Ecological Ethics. Science and Engineering Ethics. 14(4), 551-573. Allen, C., Varner, G., & Zinser, J. (2000). Prolegomena to any future artificial moral agent. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 12(3), 251-261. Varner, G. (1999). How facts matter: On the language condition and the scope of pain in the animal kingdom. Pain Forum. 8(2), 84-86. Varner, G. (1999). Should you clone your dog? An animal rights perspective on somacloning. Animal Welfare. 8(4), 407-420. Varner, G. E. (1994). In defense of the vegan ideal: Rhetoric and bias in the nutrition literature. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 7(1), 29-40. Varner, G. E. (1994). Rejoinder to Kathryn Paxton George. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 7(1), 83-86. Varner, G. E. (1994). The Prospects for Consensus and Convergence in the Animal Rights Debate. The Hastings Center Report. 24(1), 24-28. Varner, G. E. (1994). What's wrong with animalby-products?. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 7(1), 7-17. Varner, G. E. (1993). The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate. Environmental Ethics. 15(3), 279-282. Varner, G. E. (1992). Overtapped Oasis. Environmental Ethics. 14(1), 93-94. Varner, G. E. (1991). No Holism without Pluralism. Environmental Ethics. 13(2), 175-179. book Newman, J. A., Varner, G., & Linquist, S. (2017). Defending Biodiversity. Cambridge University Press. Varner, G. E. (2012). Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition. Oxford University Press. Varner, G. E. (2002). In Nature's Interests? Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics. Oxford University Press. chapter Varner, G. (2012). Environmental Ethics, Hunting, and the Place of Animals. The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Oxford University Press. Varner, G. (2001). Sentientism. A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. (pp. 192-203). Blackwell Publishers Inc..
awards and honors Summer Stipends Awards, conferred by National Endowment for the Humanities - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States), 1995
teaching activities PHIL251 Hnr-intro To Philosophy Instructor PHIL314 Environmental Ethics Instructor PHIL381 Ethical Theory Instructor PHIL485 Directed Studies Instructor PHIL489 Sptp: Animal Ethics Instructor PHIL664 Seminar In Applied Phil Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations Campbell, Stephen Michael (0001-05). Phenomenal well-being. Colebrook, Ross T. (2011-08). Stubborn Systems: Two New Multiple Coherent Systems Objections for Coherentist Moral Realism. Kasperbauer, Tyler (2014-05). Perceiving Nonhumans: Human Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics. Shriver, Adam Joseph (2005-08). What's wrong with pain?.
education and training Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States) 1988 M.A. in Philosophy, University of Georgia - (Athens, Georgia, United States) 1983 B.A. in Philosophy, Arizona State University - (Tempe, Arizona, United States) 1980
mailing address Texas A&M University Philosophy & Humanities 4237 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4237 USA