Stephen R. L. Clark
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Stephen Richard Lyster Clark (born October 30, 1945) is a British philosopher and international authority on animal rights, currently professor of philosophy and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool.
He specializes in the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, science fiction, and the treatment of non-human animals. He is the author of 14 books, including The Moral Status of Animals (1977), From Athens to Jerusalem (1984), Animals and Their Moral Standing (1997) and Biology and Christian Ethics (2000), as well as 60 scholarly articles, and chapters in another 75 books. He was chief editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy for 11 years and remains a member of its editorial board.
Clark is a member of the Animal Procedures Committee, [link] which advises the British Home Secretary on animal testing issues. He also belongs to the Boyd Group, an animal-testing think tank set up by research scientists involved in vivisection.
He is currently working on the philosophy of Plotinus during a research sabbatical funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Education and academic positions
After leaving Nottingham High School in 1964, Clark attended Balliol College, Oxford from 1964-8, followed by a fellowship at All Souls from 1968-75. He graduated with a first class honours degree in Greats (Classics) in 1968 and was awarded his D.Phil. in 1973.
After Oxford, he lectured in moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow for nine years until he was appointed professor of philosophy at Liverpool in 1984. He has also been a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University and held an Alan Richardson Fellowship at Durham University.
Animal rights
Clark sits on the board of the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs, the first scholarly center set up to advance the debate about animal liberation.About Stephen Clark
- Dombrowski, D.A. Not Even a Sparrow Falls: The Philosophy of Stephen R. L. Clark, Michigan State University Press , 2000. ISBN 087013549x
Works
- Aristotle’s Man (Clarendon Press: Oxford 1975; pbk 1983)
- The Moral Status of Animals (Clarendon Press 1977; pbk 1984)
- The Nature of the Beast (Oxford University Press 1982; pbk 1984)
- From Athens to Jerusalem (Clarendon Press 1984)
- The Mysteries of Religion (Blackwells: Oxford 1986)
- Civil Peace and Sacred Order (Clarendon Press 1989)
- A Parliament of Souls (Clarendon Press 1990)
- God’s World and the Great Awakening (Clarendon Press 1991)
- How to Think about the Earth: models of environmental theology (Mowbrays 1993)
- How to Live Forever (Routledge 1995)
- Animals and their Moral Standing (Routledge 1997)
- God, Religion and Reality (SPCK 1998)
- The Political Animal (Routledge 1999)
- Biology and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press 2000)
- (ed.) Berkeley: Money, Obedience and Affection (Garland Press: New York 1989)
References
- [Stephen Clark's webpage], University of Liverpool
- [Clark's C.V.]
- ["Not Even a Sparrow Falls: The Philosophy of Stephen R. L. Clark"], publisher's summary
- [Biography]
- ["On the side of the animals"], an RSPCA leaflet including a summary by Clark of his view on animal rights
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