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
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
Other
More than 60 travel articles and op-eds on pressing moral, social, and political issues in newspapers in 20 countries on five continents; see https://rainerebert.com/advocacy-outreach/