Stephen R. Clark, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Bristol. He has authored or co-authored/edited 337 academic publications including 26 books.  His books include The Moral Status of Animals (1977), The Nature of the Beast (1982), How to Think about the Earth (1993), Animals and Their Moral Standing (1997), Biology and Christian Ethics (2000), Can We Believe in People: human significance in an interconnected cosmos (2020), and How the Worlds Became: philosophy and the oldest stories (2023).  He is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Philosophy(1990–2001).  He has also served as a member of the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council from 1996-2002 and the UK Animal Procedures Committee from 1998-2006.  Clark won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford(1964–1968), graduating with a first-class honours degree in greats (classics) in 1968, followed by a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford (1968–1975).  After Oxford, Clark lectured in moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow for nine years, until he was appointed professor of philosophy at Liverpool in 1984. He retired from this post at the end of 2009. Clark has also been a Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University and held an Alan Richardson Fellowship at Durham University. Clark has delivered a number of well-renowned lectures, including the 1981–1982 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, entitled "From Athens to Jerusalem", the Stanton Lectures in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge (1987–1989), and the Wilde Lectures at the University of Oxford (1990).