Stephen R. L. Clark | |
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 Clark in 2023 | |
| Born | Stephen Richard Lyster Clark 30 October 1945 Luton, Bedfordshire, England |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse | Gillian Clark |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Samuel Finney (grandfather) |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Speculations upon Aristotelian Anthropology[1] (1973) |
Main interests | Animal ethics, philosophy of religion |
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Stephen Richard Lyster Clark (born 30 October 1945) is an English philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Liverpool.[3] Clark specialises in the philosophy of religion and animal rights, writing from a philosophical position that might broadly be described as Christian Platonist. He is the author of twenty books, including The Moral Status of Animals (1977), The Nature of the Beast (1982), Animals and Their Moral Standing (1997), G.K. Chesterton (2006), Philosophical Futures (2011), and Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy (2012), as well as 77 scholarly articles, and chapters in another 109 books.[4][5] He is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Philosophy (1990–2001).[4]
- ^ Clark, Stephen R. L. (1973). Speculations upon Aristotelian Anthropology (DPhil dissertation). Oxford: University of Oxford. OCLC 43231196.
- ^ Chartier, Gary (2013). Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. xiii–xiv. ISBN 978-1-107-03228-6.
- ^ "Stephen Clark". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ For a summary of Clark's philosophical position, see Hancock, Brannon. "From Athens to Jerusalem Archived 14 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine," Gifford Lectures, accessed 16 June 2012.