13 Facts About Jessica Pierce

Jessica Pierce was born on October 21,1965 and is an American bioethicist, philosopher, and writer.

Jessica Pierce currently has a loose affiliation with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Denver, but is mostly independent, focussing on writing.

Jessica Pierce has published twelve books, including multiple collaborations with the ecologist Marc Bekoff.

Jessica Pierce then received a PhD in religious studies at the University of Virginia.

In 1993, Jessica Pierce briefly worked as an assistant professor in the Randolph-Macon Women's College Department of Religion.

Jessica Pierce was a visiting fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law from 1999 to 2000, and then, from 2001 to 2006, she lectured at the University of Colorado Boulder, working in departments focused respectively on philosophy, religious studies and environmental studies.

The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care, which Jessica Pierce cowrote with Andrew Jameton, was published in 2004, and Jessica Pierce's case book Morality Play followed in 2005.

Jessica Pierce published Contemporary Bioethics, a reader co-edited with George Randals, in 2009.

Jessica Pierce co-authored Wild Justice with the ecologist and ethologist Marc Bekoff in 2010, and two sole-authored books followed: The Last Walk in 2012 and Run, Spot, Run in 2016.

Jessica Pierce subsequently collaborated with Bekoff on 2007's The Animals' Agenda, which was published the same year as Pierce's second collection, Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals, co-edited with Amir Shanan and Tamara Shearer.

In Environmentalism and the New Logic of Business, Freeman, Dodd, and Jessica Pierce argue that businesses should lead on environmental issues rather than merely meeting state-mandated standards.

Bekoff and Jessica Pierce argue in Wild Justice that animals display evidence of consciousness, cooperation, empathy, justice, and morality.

Jessica Pierce has authored or co-authored over 50 articles in peer reviewed journals and chapters in scholarly edited collections.