Gary Steiner is John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship, and Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism. He is also the translator of Prauss's Knowing and Doing in Heidegger's "Being and Time" and Lowith's Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism.