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Matthew is professor of philosophy at Calvin University and a fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He wrote Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation and co-edited Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating (with Andrew Chignell and Terence Cuneo).  His latest book, Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, was published in November 2024.

Matthew teaches and writes on twentieth-century European philosophy and applied ethics (especially animal and food ethics). To support and extend vibrant teaching, scholarship, and public education in animal and food ethics, he founded and convenes the Animals and the Kingdom of God Lecture Series at Calvin College and co-founded and convened the Wake Up Weekend festival. Matthew is also a member of the Philosophy as a Way of Life Network at the University of Notre Dame; a U.S. Observer of the Christian Ethics of Farm Animal Welfare Project at the University of Aberdeen, UK; a member of the board of directors for The Better Food Foundation and CreatureKind; and a member of the board of advisors for Sarx.

Matthew aligns with a Christian reformed epistemology rather than a naturalistic one. He is vegan and has at least a sentiocentric moral scope.

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