Bernard Rollin

Bernard E. Rollin
Nationality	American
Education	B.A. in philosophy City College of New York Ph.D. in philosophy (1972) Columbia University
Occupation	Professor of Philosophy Professor of Animal Sciences Professor of Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University
Known for	Animal rights advocacy, philosophy of consciousness
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Homepage Colorado State University

Bernard E. Rollin is an American philosopher, currently professor of philosophy, animal sciences, and biomedical sciences at Colorado State University.

Rollin specializes in animal rights and the philosophy of consciousness, and is the author of a number of influential books in the field, including Animal Rights and Human Morality (1981), The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Scientific Change (1988), Farm Animal Welfare (1995), and Science and Ethics (2006). He is also co-editor of the two-volume, The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research (1989 and 1995). He published his memoir in 2011, Putting the Horse Before Descartes.

He was prominently featured in the film about speciesism, "The Superior Human?" (2012), in which he dissects the ideology of René Descartes to help show that animals can think and feel.

Books

• Natural and conventional meaning: An examination of the distinction. Mouton. (1976). ISBN 90-279-3274-3. 
• Animal Rights & Human Morality. Prometheus Books. (1981). ISBN 1-59102-421-8. 
• The Teaching of Responsibility. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW). (1983). ISBN 0-900767-33-2. 
• with M. Lynne Kesel (eds.). The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research: A Survey of Scientific and Ethical Issues for Investigators, Volume I. CRC Press (1989). ISBN 0-8493-4981-8
• Farm Animal Welfare: School, Bioethical, and Research Issues. Iowa State Press. (1995). ISBN 0-8138-2563-6. 
• The Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic Engineering of Animals. Cambridge University Press. (1995). ISBN 0-521-47807-3. 
• The Unheeded Cry (1 ed.). Wiley. (1999). ISBN 0-8138-2575-X. 
• with David W. Ramey. Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered. Wiley-Blackwell (2003). ISBN 0-8138-2616-0.
• with G. John Benson. The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions. Wiley-Blackwell (2003). ISBN 0-8138-0473-6
• Science and Ethics. Cambridge University Press. (2006). ISBN 0-521-67418-2. 
• An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics: Theory And Cases, Second Edition (2 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. (2006). ISBN 0-8138-0399-3. 
• Putting the Horse before Descartes: My Life's Work on Behalf of Animals . Temple University Press (2011). ISBN 978-1592138258