Gary Varner

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Full Name	Gary Varner
Occupation	philosopher
Date Of Birth	Mar 10, 1957(1957-03-10)
Age	67
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Gary Varner Biography

Gary Varner is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on March 10, 1957 in United States.

Varner completed a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Arizona State University in 1980, before studying for a Master of Arts in philosophy at the University of Georgia, which he completed in 1983. He read for a PhD at University of Wisconsin–Madison, writing a thesis on environmental ethics; this was one of the first on the topic. Developed versions of some of the thesis’s chapters were later published as chapters 2, 3 and 4 Varner’s first book, In Nature’s Interests?. His doctoral research was supervised by Jon Morline, who continued as a supervisor even after leaving Madison to work at St. Olaf College. Graduating from Madison in 1988, Varner had a number of short-term jobs in the late 1980s; he lectured in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point from 1987 to 1988, acted as a visiting assistant professor at Madison’s Institute of Environmental Studies in the Summer of 1988, and took up the same role, this time in philosophy, at Washington University in St. Louis from 1988 to 1990.

Varner joined Texas A&M University in 1990, becoming an assistant professor in

1991. He became Director of Graduate Studies in 1994, a post he kept until
1992. Varner was promoted to associate professor in 1996, and, in 1998, published his first book: In Nature’s Interests? Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics, which was a part of Oxford University Press’s Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series, edited by Kristin Schrader- Frechette. Varner was promoted to full professor in 2010, and acted as department head from 2011 to 2014.

Gary Varner Net Worth

Gary Varner is one of the richest philosopher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary Varner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gary Edward Varner (born March 10, 1957) is an American philosopher specialising in environmental ethics, philosophical questions related to animal rights and animal welfare, and R. M. Hare’s two-level utilitarianism. He is currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, and has been based at the university since 1990. He was educated at Arizona State University, the University of Georgia and the University of Wisconsin–Madison; at Madison, where he was supervised by Jon Morline, he wrote one of the first doctoral theses on environmental ethics. Varner’s first monograph was In Nature’s Interests?, which was published by Oxford University Press in 1998. In the book, Varner defended a form of biocentric individualism, according to which all living entities have morally considerable interests.

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A distinctive aspect of Varner’s theory as presented in In Nature’s Interests? is the hierarchy of interests that he proposes; biological interests are the least important, with desire-based interests of greater significance and “ground projects”—possessed only by humans, these are “a nexus of [an individual’s] most important desires”—of the most weight. Thus, Varner defends a kind of “axiological anthropocentrism”; this can be distinguished from “valuational anthropocentrism”, according to which only humans have inherent value.

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Varner begins by critiquing holistic approaches to environmental ethics, using J. Baird Callicott’s as his example. He argues that the burden of proof is with holists to defend the claim that ecosystems have interests or have value for some other reason. He next considers desires as the paradigmatic basis of interests, exploring which beings have desires. Nonetheless, he argues that desires cannot be the sole basis of interests; 19th-century mariners, for instance, had an interest in using ascorbic acid to avoid scurvy, though they could not have desired the acid, as they did not know about it. Instead, such people had a “biological” interest in the acid. It is, Varner argues, the presence of biological interests that separates living beings from artifacts. This grounds Varner’s argument for biocentrism, which Mark Rowlands summarises as follows: