Mylan Engel

Mylan Engel Jr. is Professor of Philosophy at the Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, United States.

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He received his education at Vanderbilt University (B.A. in 1981) and the University of Arizona (M.A. in 1985, Ph.D. in 1988). Professor Engel has served as an Assistant Professor at the Northern Illinois University (1988-1999), a Guest Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (1999) and the University of Maribor, Slovenia (1999, 2000 and 2002) and an Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University (since 1999).

He specializes in Epistemology, the Philosophy of Religion, the Philosophy of Thomas Reid, Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics.

Professor Engel is a "moral vegetarian"--that is, he contends we are morally obliged to refrain from eating meat--and has argued that virtually all humans already hold beliefs that, if consistently applied, would make them moral vegetarians as well. He is also a religious skeptic and contends that the lack of positive reasons to believe in God make atheism the only rational position.

Professor Engel has been Executive Secretary of The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals since September, 2002.

Bibliography

• Mylan Engel. "Tierethik, Tierrechte und moralische Integrität". Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tierethik (Hrsg.). Tierrechte - Eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung. Erlangen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89131-417-3