Special Talk by Dr. Mylan Engel Jr., PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University

Dr. Mylan Engel Jr., PhD specializes in epistemology and ethics, with an emphasis on animal ethics, environmental ethics, and global justice; lead editor of The Moral Rights of Animals (Lexington Books, 2016); co-author (with Kathie Jenni) of The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Brief Introduction for Students and Teachers (Lantern Books, 2010); he has developed a common sense approach to ethics, which he uses to argue that moderately affluent individuals have a moral obligation to assist the world’s food insecure and to argue that veganism is morally required.