Gary Comstock
Professor
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Withers Hall 458
Bio
Gary L. Comstock is Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor. He was born in Oak Park, IL, on Feb. 23, 1954, taught at Iowa State University from 1982-2002, and was appointed Professor of Philosophy at NC State in 2002.
Website
https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/garylcomstock/home
Education
Ph.D. Religion and Literature University of Chicago 1983
A.M. Religious Studies University of Chicago 1977
B.A. Religious Studies and English Literature Wheaton College, IL 1976
Area(s) of Expertise
Comstock conducts research in Ethics, Practical Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Informal Logic, Environmental, Animal, and Agricultural Ethics.
Publications
- Connecting Ethical Reasoning to Global Challenges through Analysis of Argumentation , JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOLOGY EDUCATION (2023)
- Bovine Prospection, the Mesocorticolimbic Pathways, and Neuroethics: Is a Cow's Future Like Ours? , Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals (2020)
- Chimpanzee Rights THE PHILOSOPHERS' BRIEF Conclusions , Chimpanzee Rights: the philosophers' Brief (2019)
- Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief , Chimpanzee Rights: the philosophers' Brief (2019)
- Introduction: Chimpanzees, rights, and conceptions of personhood , Chimpanzee Rights: the philosophers' Brief (2019)
- The capacities conception , Chimpanzee Rights: the philosophers' Brief (2019)
- The community membership conception , Chimpanzee Rights: the philosophers' Brief (2019)
- The social contract conception , Chimpanzee Rights: the philosophers' Brief (2019)
- The species membership conception , Chimpanzee Rights: the philosophers' Brief (2019)
- Agricultural ethics , Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy v.1 (2018)
Groups
Honors and Awards
- B. A. with High Honor: Wheaton College, 1976
- University Fellowship: University of Chicago, 1981-82
- Junior Fellow: Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago, 1981-82
- Center Associate: National Rural Studies Committee, Oregon State University, 1988-89
- President: Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society, 1993-94
- Member: Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, 1990-2000
- LAS Award for Excellence in Outreach, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State U., 1998
- ASC Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2007-08, 2008-09
- Member, NC State Academy of Outstanding Teacher, 2015
- Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 2015
- External Online Ethics Prize, Honorable Mention, PEA Soup, 2017
- Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, 2020
- Best Paper, “The Prawn Hypothesis,” Conference on Interspecies Welfare Comparisons, London School of Economics, 2022
- Board of Governors Award, College of Humanities & Social Sciences Nominee, 2023