Peter Wenz

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Peter Wenz, 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 the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. His previously published books are "Environmental Justice" (SUNY, 1988), "Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom" (Temple, 1992), "Nature’s Keeper" (Temple, 1996), and "Environmental Ethics Today" (Oxford, 2001). His forthcoming book, "Political Philosophies in Moral Conflict", will be published by McGraw-Hill in 2006. He teaches regularly at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State and plans research investigating the importance of inefficiency in developed economies.

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• Video of his lecture "Animal Rights in Social Context" at the Interdisciplinary Lectures on Animal Rights at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg on 31 May 2006