BOB FISCHER [email protected] Department of Philosophy bobfischer.net Texas State University orcid.org/0000-0001-9605-393X 601 University Drive 512.245.2403 San Marcos, TX 78666 EMPLOYMENT Texas State University: Associate Professor of Philosophy 2019-present Texas State University: Assistant Professor of Philosophy 2013-2019 Texas State University: Senior Lecturer 2011-2013 EDUCATION University of Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D., Philosophy 2006-2011 Dissertation: Modal Knowledge, in Theory Director: W. D. Hart State University of New York at Geneseo, B.A., English & Philosophy 2001-2004 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AUTHORED What Do We Owe Other Animals? Under contract with Routledge. (w/ Anja Jauernig) Wildlife Ethics: Animal Ethics in Wildlife Management and Conservation. Under contract with Blackwell. (w/ Christian Gamborg, Jordan Hampton, Clare Palmer, and Peter Sandøe) Animal Ethics — A Contemporary Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2021. The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible. New York: Routledge, 2020. Modal Justification via Theories. Synthese Library. Cham: Springer, 2017. BOOKS EDITED A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox, 5th Edition. Under contract with Oxford University Press. (w/ Anthony Weston) Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues That Divide Us. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues That Affect You, 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. (1st Edition: 2017) The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics. New York: Routledge, 2020. Modal Epistemology After Rationalism. Synthese Library. Cham: Springer, 2017. (w/ Felipe Leon) The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. (w/ Ben Bramble) ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS “Animal Agriculture, Wet Markets, and COVID-19: A Case Study in Indirect Activism.” Food Ethics, forthcoming. (w/ Alyse Spiehler) “Disgust and the Logic of Contamination: Biology, Culture, and the Evolution of Norm (Over)Compliance.” Mind & Language, forthcoming. (w/ Isaac Wiegman) “The Freegan Challenge to Veganism.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, forthcoming. (w/ Josh Milburn) “Morality on Holiday: Inspiring Ethical Behavior in Animal-based Tourism through Nonmoral Values.” Tourism Recreation Research, forthcoming. (w/ Carol Kline) “Who Should Do What for the Wild Animals We Abandoned?” Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research, forthcoming. “Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices. Animals 11.5 (2021): 1-39. (w/ Jordan Owen Hampton, Timothy Hall Hyndman, and Benjamin L. Allen) “Boycotting and Public Mourning.” Res Publica 26 (2020): 89-102. “In Defense of Neural Disenhancement to Promote Animal Welfare” in Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals, edited by Andrew Fenton, L. Syd M. Johnson, and Adam Shriver, pp. 135-150. Cham: Springer, 2020. “Keep Your Cats Indoors: A Reply to Abbate.” Acta Analytica 35.3 (2020): 463-468. “Quantifying the Valuation of Animal Welfare among Americans.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (2020): 261–282. (w/ Scott Weathers, Lindsay Jaacks, L. A. Scherer, Lucius Caviola, Jess Boardman Bump, and Stephan Pfister) “Rawls Goes to Church,” Theologica 4.1 (2020): 1-15. “Be a Professional: Attend to the Insects.” American Entomologist 65.3 (2019): 176-179. (w/ Emily Sandall) “Collecting Insects to Conserve Them: A Call for Ethical Caution.” Insect Conservation and Diversity 12 (2019): 173-182. (w/ Brendon Larson) “Don’t Demean ‘Invasives’: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination.” Animals 9.11 (2019): 1-14 (w/ C. E. Abbate) 2 “How Lewis Can Meet the Integration Challenge.” Journal of Philosophical Research 44 (2019): 129-144. (w/ Eric Gilbertson) “How to Reply to Some Ethical Objections to Entomophagy.” Annals of the Entomological Society of America 112.6 (2019): 511-517. “Nonideal Ethics and Arguments against Eating Animals.” Environmental Values 28.4 (2019): 429-448. “In Defense of Backyard Chickens.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 36.1 (2019): 108-123. (w/ Josh Milburn) “Moral Bioenhancement Probably Won’t Improve Things for Animals (and May Make Them Worse).” Topoi 38 (2019):141-151. “The Problem with Person-rearing Accounts of Moral Status.” Thought 8 (2019): 119-128. (w/ Travis Timmerman) “Animal Rights and Incredulous Stares.” Between the Species 21.1 (2018): 216-231. “Animals as Honorary Humans” in Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism, edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, pp. 51-61. New York: Routledge, 2018. “Arguments for Consuming Animal Products” in The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, edited by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett, pp. 241-266. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. “C. I. Lewis and the Benacerraf Problem.” Episteme 15.2 (2018): 154-165. “Categorical Desires and the Badness of Animal Death.” The Journal of Value Inquiry 52 (2018): 97-111. (w/ Matt Bower) “Dignitarian Hunting: A Rights-based Defense.” Social Theory and Practice 44.1 (2018): 49- 73. (w/ Dan Demetriou) “Disassociation Intuitions.” Southwest Philosophy Review 34.1 (2018): 85-92. (w/ Isaac Wiegman) “Field Deaths in Plant Agriculture.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31.4 (2018): 409-428. (w/ Andy Lamey) “Is Abolitionism Guilty of Racism? A Reply to Cordeiro-Rodrigues.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31.3 (2018): 295-306. “Speech and War: Rethinking the Ethics of Speech Restrictions.” The Value and Limits of Academic Speech: Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives, ed. Donald Alexander Downs and Chris W. Surprenant, pp. 187-204. New York: Routledge, 2018. (w/ Burkay Ozturk) “Facsimiles of Flesh.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 34.4 (2017): 49-497. (w/ Burkay Ozturk) “Focus on Fish: A Call to Effective Altruists.” Essays in Philosophy 18.1 (2017): 1-23. (w/ Max Elder) “Modal Empiricism: Objection, Reply, Proposal” in Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (Synthese Library), edited by Bob Fischer and Felipe Leon, pp. 263-280. Cham: Springer, 2017. 3 “The Moral Objection to Modal Realism.” Erkenntnis 82.5 (2017): 1015-1030. “Wild Fish and Expected Utility.” Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 8.1 (2017): 1-6. “A Theory-based Epistemology of Modality.” The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (2016): 228-247. “Bugging the Strict Vegan.” Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 29.2 (2016): 255-263. “Disgust as Heuristic.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (2016):679-693. “Hale on the Architecture of Modal Knowledge.” Analytic Philosophy 57.1 (2016): 76-89. “The Modal-Knowno Problem.” Southwest Philosophy Review 32.1 (2016): 225-232. (w/ Felipe Leon) “You Can’t Buy Your Way Out of Veganism.” Between the Species 19.1 (2016): 193-209. “Against Blaming the Blameworthy” in The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat, edited by Ben Bramble and Bob Fischer, pp. 185-198. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. “Theory Selection in Modal Epistemology.” American Philosophical Quarterly 52.3 (2015): 289-304. “Disgust and the Collection of Bovine Fetal Blood” in Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy, edited by Elisa Aaltola and John Hadley, pp. 151-164. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2014. “Salvaging Serviceability in Metaphysics.” Southwest Philosophy Review 30.1 (2014): 105- 115. (w/ Eric Gilbertson) “Why It Doesn’t Matter Whether the Virtues Are Truth-Conducive.” Synthese 191 (2014): 1059-1073. “Modal Knowledge, in Theory.” Southwest Philosophy Review 28.1 (2012): 227-236. “Why Incest Is Usually Wrong.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 18.2 (2012): 17-31. COMMENTS & REFERENCE “Comments on J. P. Andrew’s ‘The Insignificance of Taste’.” Southwest Philosophy Review, forthcoming. “Are Meat-Eaters Epistemically Unlucky?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9.9 (2020): 10-14. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5kC. “Just Policy Paralysis.” Animal Sentience 2019.282. (w/ Clare Palmer) “Individuals in the Wild.” Animal Sentience 2018.170. “Modal Epistemology.” 1000-Word Philosophy. December 5, 2017. https://1000wordphilosophy.com/modal-epistemology/ “What If Barron and Klein Are Right About Insect Sentience?” Animal Sentience 2016.115. “Meat: Ethical Considerations” in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, edited by Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan, pp. 1365-1371. New York: Springer, 2014. BOOK REVIEWS 4 “Kenneth Asher’s Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions.” Philosophy in Review, forthcoming. “Kristin Andrews and Jacob Beck’s The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds.” Metapsychology 22.22 (2018). “Nathan Nobis’s Animals & Ethics 101.” Between the Species 20.1 (2018): 2-5. “Chauncey Maher’s Plant Minds: A Philosophical Defense.” Metapsychology 21.39 (2017). “Chignell, Cuneo, and Halteman’s Philosophy Comes to Dinner.” The Philosophical Review 126.2 (2017): 295-300. “J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals.” Metapsychology 21.2 (2017). “Steven McMullen’s Animals and the Economy.” Between the Species 20.1 (2017): 153-158. “Ellen K. Silbergeld’s Chickenizing Farms & Food.” Metapsychology 20.51 (2016). “David Kaspar’s Intuitionism.” Philosophy in Review 34.1-2 (2014). “Lance Rips’ Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology.” Philosophical Psychology 27:3 (2014): 445-449. “Timothy O’Connor’s Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency.” Faith and Philosophy 27.4 (2010): 236-238. “Louise Antony’s Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life.” International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 66.2 (2009): 119-123. “Amy Thomasson’s Ordinary Objects.” Metaphilosophy 40.2