# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-r-l-clark
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:20:50.908Z

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name: "Stephen R. L. Clark"
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description: "Stephen Richard Lyster Clark is an English philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Liverpool. An \"anarcho-conservative\", Clark specialises in the philosophy of religion and animal rights, writing from a philosophical position that might broadly be described as Christian Platonist. He is the author of twenty books, including The Moral Status of Animals (1977), The Nature of the Beast (1982), Animals and Their Moral Standing (1997), G.K. Chesterton (2006), Philosophical Futures (2011), and Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy (2012), as well as 77 scholarly articles, and chapters in another 109 books. He is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Philosophy (1990–2001)."
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birthDate: "1945-10-30"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump