Alan Wolfe was born on 1942 and is an American political scientist and a sociologist on the faculty of Boston College who serves as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life.
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Alan Wolfe is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".
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Alan Wolfe has honorary degrees from Loyola College in Maryland and St Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
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Alan Wolfe served as an advisor to President Bill Clinton in preparation for his 1995 State of the Union Address and has lectured widely at American and European universities.
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Alan Wolfe is a Senior Fellow with the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York.
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Alan Wolfe has been the recipient of grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Lilly Endowment.
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Alan Wolfe has twice conducted programs under the auspices of the US State Department that bring Muslim scholars to the United States to learn about separation of church and state.
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Alan Wolfe is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, and Contemporary Authors.
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Alan Wolfe is an advocate of human exceptionalism and a staunch critic of animal rights, artificial intelligence and deep ecology.
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Alan Wolfe is concerned that modern animal rights and ecological groups promote a dangerous anti-humanistic ideology.
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Alan Wolfe argues that sociology is anthropocentric by definition since it is concerned with what makes humans different from the animate and the inanimate.
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Alan Wolfe opposes the idea of "putting nature first" and identifies three groups as promoting this ideology: animal rights, deep ecology and the Gaia hypothesis.
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Alan Wolfe has stated that animal rights philosophy would result in a world without fantasy, excitement and creativity and that non-human animals do not have moral rights as they do not possess agency or understanding.
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Alan Wolfe has argued that animal rights is a political movement that threatens the humanist values and lifestyles of ordinary people.