About the Author

Gary Steiner is John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship, and Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism. He is als

Reviews

Steiner has provided a needed and lucid account of the history he targets.-- "Journal of the History of Philosophy"

Steiner's work is a rigorous and stimulating reappraisal of the long-lasting and often baleful influence of Greek philosophy on Western attitudes towards animals.-- "New England Classical Journal"