Mylan Engel

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

He was educated 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 specialized in Epistemology, the Philosophy of Religion, the Philosophy of Thomas Reid, Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics.

He has written a number of papers on animal ethics including "The Consistency Argument for Ethical Vegetarianism", "The Mere Considerability of Animals", "Moral Individualism and Our Duties to Animals", "Nonegalitarian Humane Moralism, or How to Have Your Speciesism and Eat Your Tofu, Too", "Why YOU Are Committed to the Immorality of Eating Meat", and "The Immorality of Eating Meat".

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