Bob Fischer

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Bob Fischer is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Oxford, Princeton University, Stanford University, Texas State University, University of Illinois Chicago

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#2405

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#4122

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Ethics

#292

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#345

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Logic

#7901

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#9829

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Bob Fischer 's Degrees

PhD Philosophy Princeton University
Masters Ethics University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Robert William Fischer is an American philosopher who specializes in epistemology and ethics . He is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Texas State University, a Senior Research Manager at Rethink Priorities, and the Director of the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals. His books include Modal Justification via Theories, in which he defends his account of "Theory-Based Epistemology of Modality", and The Ethics of Eating Animals, in which he argues that animal agriculture is frequently morally impermissible, but that veganism is nonetheless not morally required.

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Bob Fischer 's Published Works

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Pests (2004) (83)
Bugging the Strict Vegan (2016) (47)
Field Deaths in Plant Agriculture (2018) (43)
Facsimiles of Flesh (2017) (24)
The moral complexities of eating meat (2015) (24)
Dignitarian Hunting: A Rights-based Defense (2018) (23)
Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (2017) (22)
Modal Justification via Theories (2016) (17)
A theory-based epistemology of modality (2016) (17)
Collecting insects to conserve them: a call for ethical caution (2019) (15)
Arguments for Consuming Animal Products (2018) (15)
Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices (2021) (13)
The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics (2019) (10)
What if Klein & Barron are right about insect sentience? (2016) (9)
Focus on Fish: A Call to Effective Altruists (2017) (8)
Modal Empiricism: Objection, Reply, Proposal (2017) (8)
The Ethics of Eating Animals (2019) (7)
In Defence of Backyard Chickens (2017) (7)
Hale on the Architecture of Modal Knowledge (2016) (6)
Morality on holiday: inspiring ethical behaviour in animal-based tourism through non-moral values (2021) (6)
Zoos (2019) (6)
The Freegan Challenge to Veganism (2021) (4)
Individuals in the wild (2018) (4)
How to Reply to Some Ethical Objections to Entomophagy (2019) (4)
Just policy paralysis? (2019) (4)
Quantifying the Valuation of Animal Welfare Among Americans (2020) (4)
You Can’t Buy Your Way Out of Veganism (2016) (3)
In Defense of Neural Disenhancement to Promote Animal Welfare (2020) (3)
Keep Your Cats Indoors: a Reply to Abbate (2020) (3)
Is Abolitionism Guilty of Racism? A Reply to Cordeiro-Rodrigues (2018) (3)
Be a Professional: Attend to the Insects (2019) (2)
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations. (2022) (2)
Should Global Conservation Initiatives Prioritize Phylogenetic Diversity? (2021) (2)
Animal Agriculture, Wet Markets, and COVID-19: a Case Study in Indirect Activism (2021) (2)
Two Challenges to Johannsen on Habitat Destruction (2021) (2)
Should we connect children to nature in the Anthropocene? (2021) (2)
Introduction to Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (2017) (2)
Don’t Demean “Invasives”: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination (2019) (2)
Moral Bioenhancement Probably Won’t Improve Things for Animals (and May Make Them Worse) (2019) (1)
The Moral Objection to Modal Realism (2017) (1)
Contemporary Animal Agriculture (2019) (1)
Rawls Goes to Church (2020) (1)
Nonideal Ethics and Arguments against Eating Animals (2019) (1)
The Problem with Person‐Rearing Accounts of Moral Status (2019) (1)
Boycotting and Public Mourning (2020) (1)
Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating (2017) (1)
Against Blaming the Blameworthy (2015) (1)
Challenges in farmed insect welfare: Beyond the question of sentience (2023) (1)
Eating Animals the Rights Way (2019) (0)
Shelly Kagan, "How to Count Animals, More or Less." (2019) (0)
Caring for a Dying Loved One: A Comprehensive Guide (2001) (0)
Review of Steven McMullen's Animals and the Economy (2016) (0)
Introduction (0)
Animal Ethics (2021) (0)
Categorical Desires and the Badness of Animal Death (2017) (0)
Moral Theory (0)
Fishing (0)
Kenneth Asher, "Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions." Reviewed by (2018) (0)
TEM and Modal Skepticism (2017) (0)
Introducing Ethos: A Regular Forum for Interdisciplinary Conversations about Ethics in Entomology (2023) (0)
The Rights View and the Production/Consumption Gap (2019) (0)
Beyond Utilitarianism and the Rights View (2019) (0)
Animal Minds (0)
Animal Rights and Incredulous Stares (2017) (0)
Animals as honorary humans (2018) (0)
Activism (0)
Speech and War (2018) (0)
Causal Inefficacy Aside, Utilitarianism Requires Eating Unusually (2019) (0)
C. I. LEWIS AND THE BENACERRAF PROBLEM (2017) (0)
A theoretical approach to improving interspecies welfare comparisons (2023) (0)
How to Express Improvements in Animal Welfare in DALYs-Averted (2023) (0)
Moral Bioenhancement Probably Won’t Improve Things for Animals (and May Make Them Worse) (2017) (0)
Objections and Clarifications (2017) (0)
Utilitarianism and the Causal Inefficacy Problem (2019) (0)
The Moral Community (2021) (0)
Animal Agriculture and Aquaculture (2021) (0)
Animal Research (0)
Companion Animals (0)
TEM and the Theoretical Virtues (2017) (0)
Welfare and Death (2021) (0)
The Moral Objection to Modal Realism (2016) (0)
Comments on J. P. Andrew’s “The Insignificance of Taste” (2020) (0)
Quantifying the Valuation of Animal Welfare Among Americans (2020) (0)
Who Should Do What for the Wild Animals We Abandoned? (2021) (0)
Bad Arguments for Eating Animals (2019) (0)
Wild Fish and Expected Utility (2017) (0)
Categorical Desires and the Badness of Animal Death (2018) (0)
Review of Nathan Nobis's Animals & Ethics 101 (2017) (0)
Activist Ethics (2019) (0)
Keep Your Cats Indoors: a Reply to Abbate (2020) (0)
Disgust and the logic of contamination: Biology, culture, and the evolution of norm (over)compliance (2021) (0)
What Can You Build (2017) (0)
Conclusion (0)
Production and Consumption Ethics (2021) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Hybrid theories, psychological plausibility, and the human/animal divide (2021) (0)
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (2021) (0)
Is Abolitionism Guilty of Racism? A Reply to Cordeiro-Rodrigues (2018) (0)
Boycotting and Public Mourning (2019) (0)
Field Deaths in Plant Agriculture (2018) (0)
It/He/They/She: On Pronoun Norms for All, Human and Nonhuman (2023) (0)
Informing policy and practice on insect pollinator declines: Tensions between conservation and animal welfare (2023) (0)
Taking Stock (2019) (0)
How Lewis Can Meet the Integration Challenge (2019) (0)
Bugging the Strict Vegan (2016) (0)

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