Tzachi Zamir (born February 13, 1967^[1]) is an Israeli philosopher and literary critic specialising in the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of theatre, and animal ethics. He is Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Zamir studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv University, going on to be a Rothschild and Fulbright postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at The University of Chicago. He joined the English department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 as a lecturer, and is now Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature.^[2]

Zamir is the author of the 2006 book Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama^[3][4] and the 2007 book Ethics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation,^[5][6][7] both published by Princeton University Press. His 2014 book Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self was published by the University of Michigan Press.^[8][9][10] In 2018, he published both the monograph Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost^[11][12][13] and the edited collection Shakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives with Oxford University Press,^[14] and in 2020 he published Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice with Routledge.^[15]

While most contemporary scholars involved with animal ethics have written in favour of veganism, Zamir however has defended vegetarianism.^[6][16][17]

Zamir lives with his wife and three children in Hod HaSharon.^[18]

• "Veganism" (Journal of Social Philosophy, 2004)
• Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton University Press, 2006)
• Ethics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation (Princeton University Press, 2007)
• "Killing for Pleasure" (Between the Species, 2011)
• Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self (University of Michigan Press, 2014)
• Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice (Routledge, 2020)