Jeff Sebo | Source | Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethi...
Jeff Sebo
Jeff is currently Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University.
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New York University (https://www.nyu.edu)
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics
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'The Moral Circle': A Riveting Expansion of Ethical Concerns
Jeff Sebo considers who matters, what matters, and why and skillfully uses science and philosophy to ask us to broaden the scope of ethics and to reject human exceptionalism.
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Bird Flu Crisis: A Call to Rethink Industrial Animal Agriculture
Jeff highlights how industrial agriculture's cramped, toxic conditions foster zoonotic diseases like bird flu, affecting egg prices and farmers. He urges a shift towards plant-based alternatives to prevent future crises. Jeff's insights are crucial for understanding and addressing the vulnerabilities in our food supply chain.
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A central theme of the book is that we should accept the importance and difficulty of questions about the moral circle in equal measure. We interact with countless nonhumans whether we like it or not, and we need to consider how these interactions might be affecting them despite disagreement and uncertainty about whether they matter and what we owe them. This predicament calls for caution and humility: We should extend at least some moral consideration to all beings with at least a nonnegligible chance of mattering.
