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David Sztybel, PhD


david.sztybel@gmail.com
http://davidsztybel.info


Citizenship: Canadian

Education

Ph. D. in Philosophy, University of Toronto (1994-2000)

M.A. in Philosophy, University of Toronto (1992-94)
B.A. in Philosophy, University of Toronto (1986-91)
B. Ed. in English and Social Studies, University of Toronto (2005-2006)

Areas of Specialization


Areas of Competence


Research

Articles (refereed)

Sztybel, D. "Animal Absolutes: Liberation Sociology's Missing Link." (Part 2 of 2) Journal for Critical Animal Studies VIII (1/2) (2010): 126-175.

Sztybel, D. "Normative Sociology: the Intuitionist Crisis and Animals as Absent Referents." (Part 1 of 2) Journal for Critical Animal Studies VII (2) (2009): 83-127.

Sztybel, D. "Animal Rights Law: Fundamentalism versus Pragmatism." Journal of Critical Animal Studies 5 (1) (2007): 1-37.

Sztybel, D. "A Non-violent Approach to Animal Rights Activism." Ethics and the Environment.

Sztybel, D. "Animal Rights and the Mask of Liberal Neutrality." Ethics and the Environment. (forthcoming)

Sztybel, D. "The Rights of Animal Persons." Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal 4 (1) (2006): 1-37.

Sztybel, D. "Can the Treatment of Animals Be Compared to the Holocaust?" Ethics and the Environment 11 (Spring 2006): 97-132.

Sztybel, D. "A Living Will Clause for Supporters of Animal Experimentation." Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (May 2000): 173-189.

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

Sztybel, D. "Distinguishing Animal Rights from Animal Welfare." Ibid., pp. 43-45.

Sztybel, D. "Jainism." Ibid., pp. 292-93.

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

Invited Papers (refereed)

Sztybel, D. Review of The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader, edited by Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams. "Being Careful about Caring: Feminism and Animal Ethics." Journal of Animal Ethics. (forthcoming)

Sztybel, D. "Animals as Persons." In Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World, edited by Jodey Castricano, pp. 241-257. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.

Published Discussion Papers (refereed)

Sztybel, D. "Rebuttal #2 to Dr. Perlo on Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Appeals." Journal for Critical Animal Studies 8 (1/2) (2010): 160-180

Sztybel, D. "Response to Katherine Perlo's 'Extrinsic and Intrinsic Arguments: Strategies for Promoting Animal Rights." Journal for Critical Animal Studies V (1) (2008): 46-52.

Sztybel, D. "Response to Evelyn B. Pluhar's 'Non-Obligatory Anthropocentrism.'" Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 13 (3/4) (2000): 337-40.

Presentations at Conferences (refereed)

Sztybel, D. "Animal Rights Law: Fundamentalism versus Pragmatism." (paper presented at the conference, "Thinking about Animals: Domination, Captivity, Liberation," at Brock University, 17 March 2007).

Sztybel, D. "Should Animal Rights and Environmentalist Teachers Be Neutral about Their Views in the Classroom?" (paper presented at the annual meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, at University of Western Ontario, 3 June 2005).

Sztybel, D. "Animal Rights Extremism and Violence." (paper presented at the conference, "Two Days of Thinking about Animals in Canada," at Brock University, 25 February 2005).

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. "Taking Humanism Seriously: 'Obligatory' Anthropocentrism" (paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 28 December 1999).

Sztybel, D. "Marxism and Animal Rights" (paper presented at the International Congress of the Radical Philosophy Association, Purdue University, 17 November 1996).

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

Presentations at Conferences (non-refereed)

Sztybel, D. "Ethical Vegetarianism." (paper presented in the Third Age Learning Series at University of Guelph, 3 November 2004). Colloquia

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).

Professional Writing Guides

Sztybel, D. Guide to Philosophy Essay Writing. Available in paper and web-based formats from the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto since 1998; revised 1999, 2000; also available from the Department of Philosophy, Queen's University since 2001.

Sztybel, D. Citations Guide in the Humanities. An extensive and often-consulted guide to citation formats, both footnote-endnote style and MLA style. Available in paper and web-based formats from Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto since 2000; also available from the Department of Philosophy, Queen's University since 2001.

Research Assistantships

Researched various codes of ethics, and literature concerning these, for "The Short Hills Project" in 1994. The primary purpose of the project was to assist Professor Ingrid Stefanovic in her researching and drafting of a code of ethics for Short Hills Provincial Park, which included a community consultation meeting at Brock University.

Researched sociology statistics for Professor Metta Spencer, University of Toronto, 1991, so that she could revise her sociology textbook, Foundations of Modern Sociology

Teaching Experience

Instructor (Brock University):

Graduate Student Supervision:

Teaching as adjunct professor (Queen's University):

Instructor (University of Toronto):

Teaching Assistant for the following courses in Philosophy (University of Toronto):

Philosophy Essay Clinic Facilitator:

Guest Lecturer in Courses:

Fellowships and Prizes


Languages

Doctoral Dissertation Abstract: "Empathy and Rationality in Ethics"

This doctoral thesis has two chief components: constructing a strongest version of anthropocentrism, and providing a refutation of anthropocentrism based in "deep empathy." Empathy is defended as partly a rational endeavour in that it seeks to acquire a sense of the reality of others points of view. As well, the thesis addresses traditional concerns that it is anthropocentric to view animals as worth protecting, and that the oppression of animals, which is argued to exist, cannot be compared to the oppression of human beings.

Professional Service and Volunteer Work

Technical Proficiencies

References


  1. Peter Singer, Department of Philosophy, 1879 Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08554-1006, United States of America.
    Tel: 609-258-2202
    E-mail: psinger@princteton.edu
  2. Michael Allen Fox, Queen's University, Department of Philosophy, Kingston, Ontario. External examiner for dissertation, and Supervisor for Queen's Advisory Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship.
    Tel: (613) 545-2182
    E-mail: maf@post.queensu.ca
  3. L. W. Sumner, University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy, 215 Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. Doctoral Supervisor.
    Tel: (416) 978-4128
    E-mail: sumner@chass.utoronto.ca


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