Mylan Engel

Mylan Engel Jr. ( born 1960 ) is an American professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

He graduated from Vanderbilt University (BA 1981) and at the University of Arizona ( MA 1985), where in 1988 he became a Doctor of Philosophy. Subsequently, he was from 1988 to 1999 Assistant Professor ( Assistant Professor ) at Northern Illinois University. This was followed by guest professorships at the Leopold- Franzens- University of Innsbruck in Austria (1999) and at the University of Maribor in Slovenia ( 1999, 2000, 2002). Since 1999 he is Associate Professor (Associate Professor ) at Northern Illinois University.

His areas of expertise include epistemology, philosophy of religion, the philosophy of Thomas Reid, animal and environmental ethics.

Angel is morally motivated vegetarians, that is, He believes that man is morally obliged to give up the pleasure of the flesh. In a much-publicized essay entitled "The Immorality of Eating Meat" (2000) he argues that all people would come to the same conclusion, it would be only the moral beliefs that they already have, consistently apply. Furthermore angel is a religious skeptic and concludes from the absence of positive reasons for believing in a god (or many gods ), that atheism is the only rational position ingestible.

Since September 2002, Engel Managing Director of the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals.

Publications (selection )

  • " Animal ethics, animal rights, and moral integrity ." Interdisciplinary Working Group on Animal Ethics ( ed.). Animal Rights - An interdisciplinary challenge. Erlangen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-89131-417-3
  • "The Immorality of Eating Meat". Louis P. Pojman (ed.). The Moral Life. New York / Oxford 2000.
  • " Internalism, the Gettier problem, and Metaepistemological Skepticism ", Grazer Philosophical Studies 60 ( 2000).
  • " The Possibility of maximum Greatness Examined: A Critique of Plantinga 's Modal Ontological Argument", Acta Analytica 19 (1997).
  • " Coarsening Brand on events, While Proliferating David Smithsonian events," Grazer Philosophical Studies 47 (1994).
  • " The Problem of Other Minds: A Reliable Solution ," Acta Analytica 11 (1993).
  • " Is Epistemic Luck Compatible with Knowledge? ", Southern Journal of Philosophy XXX 2 (1992).
  • " Personal and Doxastic Justification in Epistemology ", Philosophical Studies 67 (1992).
  • " Russellizing Russell: A Reply to His 'A Critique of teacher 's coherentism ' ", Philosophical Studies 66 (1992).
  • " Inconsistency: The Coherence Theorist 's Nemesis ", Grazer Philosophical Studies 40 (1991).
  • " Coherentism Reliabilized ", Acta Analytica (1986).

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  • Official website of Mylan Engel at Northern Illinois University
  • Video recording of a lecture by Angel entitled " Do Animals Have Rights, and Does It Matter if They Do? ", Held as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series Animal Rights at the Ruprecht -Karls- University Heidelberg on June 7, 2006
  • Northern Star, " Tackling the tough issues: Philosophy professor Specializes in ethics; champions animal rights "
  • "The Immorality of Eating Meat". Louis P. Pojman (ed.). The Moral Life. New York / Oxford 2000 ( PDF, 1.2 MB). A highly regarded essay Engels to the moral status of eating meat (also here (PDF, 3.8 MB) and can be accessed here ). (1.15 MB, PDF)
  • Philosopher ( 20th century)
  • Philosopher ( 21st century)
  • University teachers ( DeKalb, Illinois)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1960
  • Man
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