Daniel Dombrowski


Daniel A. Dombrowski is an American philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at Seattle University. He has served as editor of the journal Process Studies since 2009, and is a past president of the Metaphysical Society of America.

Career

Dombrowski has authored more than twenty books and over 200 articles in scholarly journals in philosophy, theology, classics, and literature. Among his books are Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Perspective and Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals.
His main areas of intellectual interest are history of philosophy, philosophy of religion, political philosopher John Rawls, Christian ethics and pacifism. Dombrowski is widely considered a leading expert on the philosophy of Charles Hartshorne. In 2016, he was described as "the most important and prolific Hartshornean today".

Animal rights and vegetarianism

Dombrowski has authored several books dealing with the topics of animal rights and vegetarianism, including The Philosophy of Vegetarianism, published in 1984. It documents the arguments for vegetarianism from Pythagoras through the Hellenistic period to the modern debates on vegetarianism. It was positively reviewed as an "extremely well documented work".
Dombrowski's Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases, published in 1997 is the first book-length examination of the range of views relating to the argument from marginal cases. The book cites the arguments of Peter Singer, Tom Regan, H. J. McCloskey, Jan Narveson, John Rawls, R. G. Frey, Peter Carruthers, Michael P. T. Leahy, Robert Nozick, and James Rachels.

Selected publications

  • Plato's Philosophy of History, 217 pp.
  • , 188 pp. Also Vegetarianism: The Philosophy Behind the Ethical Diet, 188 pp. Foreword by Peter Singer.
  • Thoreau the Platonist, 219 pp.
  • , 159 pp.
  • Christian Pacifism, 181 pp.
  • St. John of the Cross: An Appreciation, 219 pp.
  • Analytic Theism, Hartshorne, and the Concept of God, 247 pp.
  • Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases, 221 pp.
  • Kazantzakis and God, 193 pp.
  • A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion, with Robert Deltete, 158 pp.
  • Not Even a Sparrow Falls: The Philosophy of Stephen R. L. Clark, 366 pp.
  • Rawls and Religion: The Case for Political Liberalism, 192 pp.
  • Divine Beauty: The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne, 230 pp.
  • A Platonic Philosophy of Religion: A Process Perspective, 152 pp.
  • Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Perspective, 172 pp.
  • Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals, 167 pp.
  • Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied Philosophy, 138 pp.
  • A History of the Concept of God: A Process Approach, 273 pp.
  • Whitehead's Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion, 184 pp.
  • Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism: Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne, 214 pp.
  • Process Mysticism, 231 pp.