Andy Lamey

PhD (University of Western Australia)

Philosophy Department
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive # 0119
La Jolla, CA 92093-0119

I’m a teaching professor (full) in the philosophy department at the University of California, San Diego. This site provides information about my research and teaching, which generally focus on applied ethics, political philosophy and a bit of ethics.

I’m the author of Duty and The Beast: Should we Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights? (Cambridge University Press, 2019). You can read the introduction here. I’ve also published a handbook entry, “New Omnivorism,” that summarizes the main arguments of the book. Articles of mine have been accepted or published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (“The Hoax as Form,” forthcoming), Politics, Philosophy & Economics and the European Journal of Philosophy, among other peer-reviewed outlets. I no longer upload papers to this site, but you can download them from my PhilPeople page.

Classes I regularly teach include Topics in Political Philosophy; Contemporary Moral Issues; Ethics and Society I and II; and Philosophy & Literature. In 2026 I’m excited to be teaching a brand new class, Philosophy & Animals.

I enjoy writing about philosophy and other subjects for general audiences. I’ve done so for The New York Times, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Point and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio program, “Ideas”. Articles I originally wrote for the Literary Review of Canada and Quillette appeared, respectively, in Best Canadian Essays 2019 and Best Canadian Essays 2020.

In 2025 I enjoyed talking about philosophy on the “Like an Old Friend,” a video podcast.

Before you go, consider a polite Canadian request to read my latest book, The Canadian Mind: Essays on Writers and Thinkers.