1. Stephen Budiansky is an American writer, historian and biographer, best known for his books on animal behaviour and his criticism of animal rights.
21 Facts About Stephen Budiansky
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Stephen Budiansky is the author of a number of scholarly publications about the history of cryptography, military and intelligence history, and music.
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Stephen Budiansky was born on March 3,1957, in Boston, the son of Bernard Budiansky, who was a professor of structural mechanics at Harvard University.
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Stephen Budiansky grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, and graduated from Lexington High School.
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Stephen Budiansky ultimately served as the magazine's deputy editor, the No 3 editorial position.
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Since 1998, Stephen Budiansky has been a full-time author and freelance contributor to publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist.
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Stephen Budiansky's writing has focused on three main areas: intellectual biography; military history; and the evolution and behavior of domesticated animals.
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Stephen Budiansky is a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, the scholarly journal of codes and codebreaking.
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Stephen Budiansky subsequently collaborated with Tim Foley, the 26th director of the United States Marine Band, on a scholarly article further exploring the problem and recommending solutions.
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Stephen Budiansky is a staunch critic of animal rights and has defended animal agriculture.
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Stephen Budiansky has said that he disagrees with animal rights on "moral, biological, social, legal, philosophical, evolutionary, and aesthetic grounds".
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Stephen Budiansky supports fox hunting and is a member of the Loudoun Hunt Club.
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In 1998, Stephen Budiansky's authored If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness a critical look at experimental research on animal cognition.
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Stephen Budiansky contends that animals lack consciousness because they do not have language and has stated that "whether or not languages causes consciousness, language is so intimately tied to consciousness that the two seem inseparable".
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Stephen Budiansky explains animal behaviour through a neo-Darwinian perspective as associative learning and evolutionary adaptation for survival.
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Stephen Budiansky argues that animals do not deserve equal consideration because unlike humans they do not have moral agency.
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Palaeontologist Niles Eldredge negatively reviewed much of The Covenant of the Wild, noting that many of Stephen Budiansky's arguments convey a false message and were driven by emotion.
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Stephen Budiansky authored The Nature of Horses, which received positive reviews.
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Stephen Budiansky married Martha Polkey in 1982; they have a daughter and a son.
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Stephen Budiansky was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2011 to complete his biography of the American composer Charles Ives.
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Stephen Budiansky received the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award in 2004 for an article in American Heritage on the Civil War intelligence chief George H Sharpe.