Jeff Sebo

Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Studies; Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy; Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program

Jeff Sebo works primarily in bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics. He is author of Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves (Oxford University Press, 2022) and co-author of Chimpanzee Rights (Routledge, 2018) and Food, Animals, and the Environment (Routledge, 2018). He is also a board member at Minding Animals International and a mentor at Sentient Media.

Prior to this post, Jeff worked as Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2015-2017), as Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (2014-2015), and as Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow in Animal Studies and Environmental Studies at New York University (2011-2014).

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Philosophy, New York University (2011)

B.A. in Philosophy/Sociology, Texas Christian University (2005)

AREAS OF RESEARCH/INTEREST

Moral, social, and political philosophy; bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics; ethics of activism, advocacy, and philanthropy

PUBLICATIONS

“Animals and Climate Change,” Philosophy and Climate Change, ed. Mark Budolfson, Tristram McPherson & David Plunkett (Oxford University Press, 2021).

“What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?” (with 28 other authors), Utilitas (2021).

“Can Knowledge Itself Justify Harmful Research?” (with David DeGrazia), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2020).

“Consequentialism and Nonhuman Animals” (with Tyler John), The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, ed. Doug Portmore (Oxford University Press, 2020).

“Legal Priorities Research: A Research Agenda” (with nine other authors), Legal Priorities Project (2020).

“Effective Altruism and Transformative Values” (with L.A. Paul), Effective Altruism: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Theron Pummer & Hilary Greaves (Oxford University Press, 2019).

“Effective Animal Advocacy,” Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, ed. Bob Fischer (Routledge, 2019).

“Activism” (with Peter Singer), Critical Terms for Animal Studies, ed. Lori Gruen (Chicago University Press, 2018).

“The Ethics and Politics of Plant-Based and Cultured Meat,” Les ateliers de l’ ́ethique/ The Ethics Forum (2018).

“Fill-in-the-blank-emotion in Dogs?” (with Alexandra Horowitz and Becca Franks) Animal Sentience (2018).

“Fish Are Smart and Feel Pain: What about Joy?” (with Alexandra Horowitz and Becca Franks) Animal Sentience (2018).

“The Moral Problem of Other Minds,” The Harvard Review of Philosophy (2018).

“Chimpanzee Personhood: The Philosophers’ Brief” (with 16 other philosophers), submitted to the New York Court of Appeals (2018).

“Multi-Issue Food Activism,” The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, ed. Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson & Tyler Doggett (Oxford University Press, 2018).

“Agency and Moral Status,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 14:1 (2017), pp. 1-22.

“Bivalves are Better” (with Jennifer Jacquet and Max Elder), Solutions 7:1 (2017).

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Board of Directors, Animal Charity Evaluators

Board of Directors, Minding Animals International

Executive Committee, Animals & Society Institute