David Sztybel (born February 2, 1967 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian ethicist specializing in animal ethics. His doctoral dissertation, "Empathy and Rationality in Ethics", was completed in 2000 at the University of Toronto. Most of Sztybel's work is related to animal rights.

Publications

Sztybel, D. "Animal Rights: Autonomy and Redundancy." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 14 (3) (2001): 259-73.

Sztybel, D. "Taking Humanism Seriously: 'Obligatory' Anthropocentrism." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 13 (3/4) (2000): 181-203.

Sztybel, D. "Marxism and Animal Rights." Ethics and the Environment 2 (Fall 1997): 169-85.

Three articles for The Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, pp. 130-32. Edited by Marc Bekoff. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998: "Descartes, Rene", "Distinguishing Animal Rights from Animal Welfare", and "Jainism".

Sztybel, D. "Descartes and Nonhuman Animals." (paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Brock University, 29 May 1996).

Sztybel, D. "Representing Animals as Equivalent to Cognitively Disadvantaged Humans." (paper presented at the conference, "Representing Animals," at Brock University, 13 November 2003).

Sztybel, D. "Animal Minds, Reductionism, and Ethics." (paper presented at the colloquium of the Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, 19 September 2002).

Sztybel, D. "Good Beyond Words: Skepticism, Cynicism, and an Argument Against Ethical Nihilism." (paper presented at the colloquium of the Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, 18 January 2002).

Sztybel, D. "Refuting Anthropocentrism in Ethics." (paper presented at the colloquium of the Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, 13 September 2001).

External link

• Dr. David Sztybel's Philosophy and Animal Rights Page (http://sztybel.tripod.com/home.html)