Lori Gruen

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]
Websitewww.lorigruen.com Edit this at Wikidata

Lori Gruen is an American philosopher, ethicist, and author who is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.[3] Gruen is also Professor of Science in Society, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan.[3]

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.[4][5]

Gruen has written for Time magazine,[6] Al Jazeera,[7] and the Washington Post.[8]

  1. ^ "Sumarsam, Gruen, Herbst Honored with Faculty Research Prizes".
  2. ^ Glass, E. "Introducing Lori Gruen". CUNY The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies. CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Lori Gruen, PhD", Wesleyan University.
  4. ^ Gorman, James; Lin, Thomas; Louttit, Meghan (14 November 2011). "Chimpanzee Stories". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  5. ^ "The first 100". first100chimps.wesleyan.edu. Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  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.