Discipline of Philosophy

Dr R Ebert

College of Human Sciences
School of Humanities
Department: Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology
Research Fellow
E-mail: sekhunp@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD, Philosophy, Rice University (USA), 2016
  • MA, Philosophy, Rice University (USA), 2014
  • Diplom (≈ BSc + MSc), Physics, Heidelberg University (Germany), 2009

Fields of academic interests

  • Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Logic and Critical Thinking

Field of Specialisation

  • Applied Ethics, particularly Animal Ethics
  • Moral Equality and Rights

Books

  • Rainer Ebert & Anteneh Roba (eds.), Africa and Her Animals: Philosophical and Practical Perspectives (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2018)
  • Rainer Ebert et al. (eds.), Tierrechte – Eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung (Erlangen: Harald Fischer Verlag, 2007)
  • Book reviews
  • “Review of Kurt Remele’s Die Würde des Tieres ist unantastbar: Eine neue christliche Tierethik,“ The Journal of Animal Ethics 9 (Spring 2019), pp. 113-11
  • “Review of Alasdair Cochrane’s Animal Rights Without Liberation,” The Journal of Animal Ethics 5 (Spring 2015), pp. 114-116
  • “Review of Fritz Mauthner’s Die Sprache,” Copula: Jahangirnagar University Studies in Philosophy 30 (June 2013), pp. 65-67
  • Selected other publications
  • “Mohandas K. Gandhi and Tom Regan: Advocates for Animal Rights,” Gandhi Marg Quarterly 38 (2017), pp. 395-403
  • “On What a Good Argument Is, in Science and Elsewhere,” Dhaka University Journal on Journalism, Media and Communication Studies 1 (May 2011), pp. 17-26
  • “Weierstrass meets Enriques” (with Andreas P. Braun, Arthur Hebecker & Roberto Valandro), Journal of High Energy Physics 2010 (February 2010), pp. 1-2

Journal articles

  • “Is Daniel a Monster? Reflections on Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei’s ‘Subordination without Cruelty’ Thesis” (with Valéry Giroux, Angie Pepper & Kristin Voigt), Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 17 (2022), pp. 31-45
  • “Being a World Unto One’s Self: A Phenomenal Consciousness Account of Full and Equal Moral Status,” Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie 5 (2022), pp. 179-202
  • “Question-Begging Arguments as Ones That Do Not Extend Knowledge,” Philosophy and Progress 65 (2021), pp. 125-144
  • “Ethics after Darwin: Completing the Revolution,” Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 11 (2020), pp. 43-48
  • “Are humans more equal than other animals? An evolutionary argument against exclusively human dignity,” Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 48 (2020), pp. 1807-1823
  • “Mental-Threshold Egalitarianism: How Not to Ground Full Moral Status,” Social Theory and Practice 44 (2018), pp. 75-93
  • “Good to die,” Diacrítica 27 (2013), pp. 139-156
  • “The Concept of Human Dignity in German and Kenyan Constitutional Law” (with Reginald M. J. Oduor), Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 4 (2012), pp. 43-73
  • “Innocent Threats and the Moral Problem of Carnivorous Animals” (with Tibor R. Machan), Journal of Applied Philosophy 29 (2012), pp. 146-159

Paper presentations

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Collaborator, Groupe de Recherche en Éthique Environnementale et Animale (Canada), 2021-present
  • Bangladesh Bioethics Society Award (“in appreciation of efforts to promote bioethics in Bangladesh”), 2019
  • International Research Associate, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), 2019-present
  • Global Excellence and Stature (GES) Fellowship, University of Johannesburg (South Africa), 2016-2017
  • Member, Minding Animals, 2016-present
  • International Life Member, Bangladesh Bioethics Society, 2015-present
  • Associate Fellow (2012), then Fellow (2018), Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (UK), 2012-present
  • Founding Chairman, Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tierethik, Heidelberg University (Germany), 2005-2007

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