- Peter Wenz
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region = Western Philosophy
era =Contemporary philosophy
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image_caption = Peter Wenz
name = Peter Wenz
birth =United States of America
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school_tradition =Analytic philosophy
main_interests =Applied ethics ,Philosophy of law ,Environmental ethics ,Political philosophy
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notable_ideas =Peter Wenz (1945 - ) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Illinois at Springfield , University Scholar of the University of Illinois, and Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at theSouthern Illinois University School of Medicine . He received his B.A. in philosophy in 1967 from Harpur College of the State University of New York at Binghamton (now Binghamton University) and his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1971 to 1976 before moving to Springfield. He has also taught at Polytechnic of the South Bank (now South Bank University) in London, England (1980-81); at Aberdeen University in Scotland (1986-87); at Oxford University in England (fall 2003) and at The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand (2007). He teaches regularly at theChautauqua Institution inNew York State . He is best known for work in environmental justice, being among those who simultaneously coined the term in the mid-1980s. His most widely reprinted articles are "Just Garbage" and "Minimal Moderate and Extreme Moral Pluralism." His specialties include environmental ethics, political philosophy, and medical ethics.Works
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* Wenz, Peter S. (2009). "Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates. "Cambridge". "MA: MIT Press."
* Peter S. Wenz. "Tierrechte im sozialen Kontext". [http://www.ag-tierethik.de/ Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tierethik] (Hrsg.). " [http://buch.ag-tierethik.de/ Tierrechte - Eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung] ". Erlangen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89131-417-3External links
* [http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~rebert/arlectures/media/index.php?v=wenz Video of Peter Wenz lecture "Animal Rights in Social Context" at the Interdisciplinary Lectures on Animal Rights at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg on 31 May 2006]
* [http://cspl2.uis.edu/ILAPS/FacutlyStaff/PeterWenz.htm Peter Wenz's web page at the University of Illinois at Springfield]
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