Bernard E. Rollin is an American philosopher

Philosophy

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 who specializes in animal rights

Animal rights

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 and animal consciousness. He is a professor of philosophy, animal sciences, and biomedical sciences at Colorado State University

Colorado State University

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Rollin is the author of Natural and Conventional Meaning (1976), Animal Rights and Human Morality (1981), The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Scientific Change (1988), Farm Animal Welfare (1995), The Frankenstein Syndrome (1995), and Science and Ethics (2006). He is also the editor of the two-volume The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research (1989).

Background

Rollin obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

in 1972. His scholarly interests include both traditional philosophy and applied philosophy. In his spare time, he is a weight-lifter, horseman, and motorcyclist.