Faculty

Jean Kazez

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy


PhD University of Arizona, 1991
jkazez@smu.edu
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Webpage: http://faculty.smu.edu/jkazez/


Current Research

I am interested in problems at the theoretical end of applied ethics. For example, the nature of the good life, the moral status of animals, and various problems that come up in the lives of parents and parents-to-be.

Representative Publications

  • Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).
  • The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life (Wiley-Blackwell 2007).
  • "Imagine That" arts column in The Philosopher's Magazine.
  • "How Good Do We Have to Be?" Philosophy Now.
  • "Can Counterfactuals Save Mental Causation?" Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73:71-90, 1995.
  • "Computationalism and the Causal Role of Content," Philosophical Studies, 75:231-260, 1994.

Work in Progress

  • I’m writing an article on animal experimention for Current Debates in Bioethics (Wiley-Blackwell forthcoming).
  • I’m working on a book-length project dealing with parenthood.

Teaching

  • Animal Rights
  • The Meaning of Life
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Philosophy and Literature

Other than that

A famous philosopher once said "I blog, therefore I am." I blog at In Living Color (kazez.blogspot.com).