Robert C. Jones (Ph.D. Stanford University) Robert C. Jones received his PhD in philosophy from Stanford University in 2005. His dissertation, The Moral Significance of Animal Cognition, investigates the substantive properties that bear on the moral considerability of both human and nonhuman animals and argues that the key properties are specific features of a being's cognitive capacities. He further argues that, based on recent empirical findings, since there are deep and important continuities across species in these features, no fundamental distinction of moral considerability between human and nonhuman animals can be sustained. His current research interests continue to focus on the moral status of nonhuman animals as well as on food ethics, environmental ethics, mind and cognition, species studies, and the question of what it is to be human. Robert has taught a wide range of philosophy courses at a variety of community colleges, universities, and at Hope House, a residential treatment program for women. Since his graduation from Stanford, he has been a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University and, most recently, a visiting researcher for the Ethics in Society Project at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Robert is, himself, a graduate of the California State University system, having earned both his BA (Northridge) and MA (Los Angeles) in the Cal State System. Robert joined the faculty of California State University, Chico, in 2008 as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and director of The Center for Applied and Professional Ethics.
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