David Peña-Guzmán

David M. Peña-Guzmán is Assistant Professor in Humanities and Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Dr. Peña-Guzmán received his B.A. in Philosophy and Women’s Studies from the University of Nevada, Reno, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Evolutionary Ecology and Ethical Conservation at Laurentian University and at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. At SFSU, he regularly teaches courses in philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, and animal studies. His research has appeared in journals such as Foucault Studies, Hypatia, The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Animal Sentience, Metaphilosophy, and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science A. He is also a co-author of Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief (Routledge, 2018). As an educator, he is interested in innovative pedagogies that challenge the traditional student-teacher dynamic.