Biography:Jeff Sebo
Jeff Sebo | |
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| Born | Jeffrey Raymond Sebo February 24, 1983 |
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| Spouse(s) | Maryse Mitchell-Brody (m. 2014) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Thesis | The Personal Is Political (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. David Velleman |
Main interests | Animal ethics, bioethics, environmental ethics, medical ethics |
| Website | jeffsebo.net |
Jeffrey Raymond Sebo (born February 24, 1983)[1][2] is an American philosopher. He is clinical associate professor of environmental studies, director of the animal studies MA program, and affiliated professor of bioethics, medical ethics, and philosophy at New York University.[3] In 2022, he published his first sole-authored book, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves.
Early life and education
Sebo is the son of Sheryl L. Sebo, an organist, and Eric J. Sebo, a systems special operations manager, of Plano, Texas.[1] He studied philosophy and sociology at Texas Christian University, graduating summa cum laude with a BA in 2005. In the same year, he published his first academic article, "A Critique of the Kantian Theory of Indirect Duties to Animals," in Animal Liberation Philosophy & Policy.[4] During his studies, he founded two animal rights groups in Fort Worth, Texas, one that hosted movie nights and ran leafletting campaigns and another that facilitated care for feral cats.[5][6] Sebo completed his PhD at New York University in 2011. His dissertation, The Personal Is Political, was supervised by Derek Parfit, John Richardson, Sharon Street, and J. David Velleman (chair of the committee).[6]
Career
After graduating, Sebo took a postdoc at New York University (NYU) in animal and environmental studies until 2014, when he took up a one-year postdoctoral position in bioethics with the National Institutes of Health. From 2015 to 2017, Sebo worked as a research assistant professor of philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the associate director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the university. He returned to NYU in 2017 as a clinical assistant professor in environmental studies, with affiliate roles in bioethics, medical ethics, and philosophy. He directs the university's animal studies MA programme.[6]
Sebo has been a board member of Minding Animals International since 2014, a mentor and contributing writer at Sentient Media[7] from 2020 and a senior research affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project since 2021; he was an executive committee member of the Animals & Society Institute from 2012 to 2020, board member of Animal Charity Evaluators from 2015 to 2021 and an advisory member of the Sentience Institute from 2018 to 2020.[6]
In 2018, Sebo co-authored Food, Animals and the Environment: An Ethical Approach, a book devoted to food ethics, with Christopher Schlottmann.[8] In the same year, Sebo was among those filing an amicus brief in support of granting legal personhood to chimpanzees.[9][10] Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosopher's Brief was published by Routledge in 2018; Sebo was one of 13 authors, along with Kristin Andrews, Gary L Comstock, G. K. D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler M. John, L. Syd M. Johnson, Robert C. Jones, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, and David Pena-Guzman.[10]
In 2020, Sebo was promoted to clinical associate professor.[6] His first sole-authored book, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.[11]
Personal life
Sebo married Maryse Mitchell-Brody, a psychotherapist, in 2014.[1]
Selected publications
- Sebo, Jeff (2022-07-05), "Wild animals" (in en), The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics (New York: Routledge): pp. 63–71, doi:10.4324/9781315768090-8, ISBN 978-1-315-76809-0, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315768090/chapters/10.4324/9781315768090-8, retrieved 2022-08-27
- Sebo, Jeff (2022). Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-086101-8.
- Andrews, Kristin; Comstock, Gary L; Crozier, G.K.D.; Donaldson, Sue; Fenton, Andrew; John, Tyler M; Johnson, L. Syd M; Jones, Robert C et al. (2018). Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief. Kristin Andrews, Gary Comstock, G. K. D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler John, L. Syd M. Johnson, Robert Jones, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David M. Pena-Guzman. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-61866-4. https://philpapers.org/archive/ANDCRT-2.pdf.
- Schlottmann, Christopher; Sebo, Jeff (2018). Food, Animals and the Environment: An Ethical Approach. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-80112-7.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Maryse Mitchell-Brody and Jeffrey Sebo" (in en-US). The New York Times. 2014-07-06. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/fashion/weddings/maryse-mitchell-brody-and-jeffrey-sebo.html.
- ↑ Jeff Sebo [@jeffrsebo]. "Today is my birthday! Please help me celebrate by sharing a surprising fact about an animal that more people should know. Photos very welcome too. Thanks!". https://twitter.com/jeffrsebo/status/1364575854416846851. Missing or empty |date= (help)
- ↑ "Jeff Sebo". https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/jeff-sebo.html.
- ↑ Sebo, Jeff (2005). "A Critique of the Kantian Theory of Indirect Duties to Animals". Animal Liberation Philosophy & Policy 2 (2): 54–72. https://jeffsebodotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/a-critique-of-the-kantian-theory-of-indirect-duties-to-animals1.pdf. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ↑ Sebo, Jeff (2016-05-04). "Platter Chatter" (Interview). Interviewed by Jessica Porter.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Curriculum Vitae". https://jeffsebodotnet.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/jeff-sebo-cv.pdf.
- ↑ "Jeff Sebo, Author at Sentient Media" (in en-US). https://sentientmedia.org/author/jeffsebo/.
- ↑ Reviews of Food, Animals and the Environment:
- Berry, Sarah (March 13, 2019). "Why the debate between vegans and meat-eaters is pointless". Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/why-the-debate-between-vegans-and-meat-eaters-is-pointless-20190312-p513hm.html.
- Hedberg, Trevor (2020). "none". Essays in Philosophy 21 (1): 120–123. doi:10.5840/eip2020211/28.
- Johannsen, Kyle (November 2019). "Review". Philosophy in Review 39 (4): 206–208. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/18944/8401.
- ↑ Venkatraman, Sakshi (2018-04-16). "Professor Thinks Chimpanzees Should Be Legally Considered People | Washington Square News" (in en-US). https://nyunews.com/2018/04/15/04-16-news-chimp/.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Reviews of Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief:
- Benz-Schwarzburg, Judith (February 2019). "Review". EurSafe News 21 (1): 10–11. https://www.eursafe.org/images/newsletter/Eursafe_9_FEBRUARY_2019_LR.pdf.
- Thompson, R. Paul (September 2020). "none". The Quarterly Review of Biology 95 (3): 253–254. doi:10.1086/710398.
- ↑ Coverage:
- "Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for…". https://newbooksnetwork.com/saving-animals-saving-ourselves.
- Milburn, Josh (6 February 2023). "Episode 210: Saving Animals (And Ourselves) with Jeff Sebo". Knowing Animals. https://knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-210-saving-animals-and-ourselves-with-jeff-sebo. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
- Bekoff, Marc. "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: What Harms Them Harms Us". Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/animal-emotions/202301/saving-animals-saving-ourselves-what-harms-them-harms-us. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
- Taylor, Angus (2023). "Review of Jeff Sebo's Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves". Between the Species 26 (1): 179–84. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol26/iss1/10/.
- Milburn, Josh (2023). "Jeff Sebo. Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animal Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes". Environmental Ethics 45 (2): 203–206. doi:10.5840/enviroethics202345254.
- Armstrong, Chris (2023). "Animal flourishing in a time of ecological crisis". European Journal of Political Theory. doi:10.1177/14748851231196013.
- Perry, Matthew Wray (2023). "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes, written by Jeff Sebo". Journal of Moral Philosophy 20 (3-4): 350-53. doi:10.1163/17455243-20030005.
External links
- In Conversation with Jeff Sebo: How to Prevent Future Pandemics (video)
- Sebo, Jeff (15 January 2020). "All We Owe to Animals". https://aeon.co/essays/we-cant-stand-by-as-animals-suffer-and-die-in-their-billions.
- Sebo, Jeff (7 April 2018). "Should Chimpanzees Be Considered Persons?". The New York Times.
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