Areas of Specialization
Environmental Ethics
Ethical Theory
Academic Positions
2008-present
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Colorado
State University
2003-2008
Assistant Professor
of Philosophy, North Carolina State University
2002-2003
Visiting Scholar, Center
for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University
Education
1994-2002
Ph.D., University of Michigan (Philosophy)
1989-1993
B.A., Northwestern University (Philosophy, Honors)
Articles
- "Neosentimentalism and the Valence of Attitudes," forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
- "Some Challenges for Narrative Accounts of Value," forthcoming in Ethics & The Environment.
- "The Environment: How to
Understand It and What to Do about It," forthcoming in Topics in Contemporary Philosophy,
vol. 9, MIT Press.
- "Environmental
Ethics," forthcoming in International
Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell.
- "Neosentimentalism
and Environmental Ethics," Environmental Ethics 33(1):
5-23 (2011).
- "Love, Grief, and Climate Change," in Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, edited
by Michael Nelson and Kathleen Dean Moore, (Trinity Press, 2010), pp. 369-72.
- "Environmental Ethics: An
Overview," Philosophy
Compass, 4(3):
407-20 (2009) .
- "Convergence, Noninstrumental Value and the Semantics of 'Love':
Reply to Norton," Environmental Values 17(1): 15-22 (2008).
- "Anthropocentrism vs. Nonanthropocentrism: Why Should We Care?" Environmental Values 16(2):
169-85 (2007).
- "Why Environmental Ethics
Shouldn't Give Up on Intrinsic Value," Environmental
Ethics 29(1): 43-61 (2007). Reprinted
in
- Robin Attfield,
ed., 2008, The Ethics of the Environment, Ashgate, pp. 59-78.
- David Clowney
and Patricia Mosto, eds., 2009, Earthcare: An Anthology in Environmental Ethics,
Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 173-188.
- "Rolston's
Theory of Value" in Nature, Value, Duty: Life on
Earth with Holmes Rolston, III, edited by
Christopher J. Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk
(Springer, 2007), pp. 1-15.
- "Ecosystem Health," Environmental Ethics 26(3):
227-45 (2004).
Book Reviews
- Character
and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, by Ronald L Sandler, Ethics, Place and Environment 11(2):
213-18 (2008).
- Morality's Progress: Essays on
Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature, by Dale Jamieson, Environmental Ethics 28(3):
323-26 (2006).
- Environmental Justice: Creating
Equality, Reclaiming Democracy,
by Kristin Shrader-Frechette, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, September 2003.
Other Publications
- "To Act or Not to Act?" [editorial], Environmental Values 20(3):297-98 (2011).
- "Lessons Learned"
[editorial], Environmental
Values 19(4):417-18 (2010).
Presentations
- "What Ethicists Talk about When They Talk about Climate Change," Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, August 2011.
- "Some Challenges for Narrative Accounts of Value," Society for Applied Philosophy, July 2011.
- " Individuals and
Communities in Environmental Justice: Comments on Tama Weisman's
'Restorative Environmental Justice and the Promise of Ubuntu,'"
International Society for Environmental Ethics and International
Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference, June 2009.
- "Interests,
Responsibility, and Human Nature: Some Thoughts on David Schmidtz' Person,
Polis, Planet," International Society for Environmental
Ethics and International Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint
Conference, June 2009.
- Comments on Brian Steverson's "Systems Theory and the New Ecophilosophy," Inland Northwest Philosophy
Conference, May 2009.
- "Theoretical Structure and
Its Effects on Value Claims: John O'Neill, Alan Holland and Andrew Light's
Environmental Values,"
APA Eastern Division Meetings, December 2008.
- "Neosentimentalism
and Environmental Ethics," APA Eastern Division Meetings, December
2008.
- "Virtue and Respect for
Nature: Ronald Sandler's Character
and Environment," APA Central Division Meetings, April
2008.
- "Environmental Ethics:
Problems and Prospects," APA Pacific Division Meetings, March 2008.
- "Neosentimentalism
and Environmental Ethics," International Society for Environmental
Ethics and International Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint
Conference, June 2007.
- "Is Awe a Valuing
Attitude?" Department of Philosophy & Religion Faculty
Colloquium, North Carolina State University, October 2006.
- Comments on Avram
Hiller's "A Quasi-Realist Environmental Ethic," International
Society for Environmental Ethics and International Association for
Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference, June 2005.
- Comments on Victoria Weafer's "A Biological Critique of Natural
Normativity," International Society for Environmental Ethics and
International Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference,
June 2005.
- "Science and Values: The
Case of Forest Health," Harvard Forest, June 2005.
- "Why Environmental Ethics
Shouldn't Give Up on Intrinsic Value," Karbank
Symposium on Environmental Philosophy, Boston University, April 2005.
- "Plumbing the Depths of
the Deep Green Ethic: Comments on Dale Jamieson's Morality's Progress,"
APA Pacific Division Meetings, March 2005.
- "Anthropocentrism vs. Nonanthropocentrism: Why Should We Care?"
International Society for Environmental Ethics and International
Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference, June 2004.
- "Ethics," Carnegie
Council on Ethics and International Affairs Faculty Development Workshop, Integrating Ethics into Environmental Studies: Ethics,
Science, and Civic Responsibility, May 2004.
- "Ecosystem Health,"
Bowdoin College, February 2003.
- "What Environmentalists
Should Mean by 'Intrinsic Value,'" Colby College, March 2003.
- "G.E. Moore on Intrinsic
Value," Conference for Value Inquiry, April 2003.
Courses
Seminar in Normative
Ethical Theory (graduate level)
Seminar in Environmental
Philosophy (graduate level)
Group Study in Feminist
Philosophy (graduate level)
Environmental Ethics
(undergraduate level)
Feminist Philosophies
(undergraduate level)
Introduction to Ethics
(undergraduate level)
Philosophical Issues in
Environmental Ethics (mixed graduate and undergraduate level)
Philosophical Ethics
(Honors Seminar)
Introduction to
Philosophy (undergraduate level)
Contemporary Moral
Problems (undergraduate level)
Ethics in Science (middle
school summer program at University of Michigan)
Graduate Thesis
Committees
Former students:
Eli Weber (M.A. in philosophy, Colorado State
University, 2009): committee chair
Hyejung Chang (Ph.D.,
landscape architecture, North Carolina State University, 2009): committee
member
Current students:
Hanna Moerland (M.A.
student in philosophy, Colorado State University): committee chair
Andy Bzdok (M.A. student
in philosophy, Colorado State University): committee chair
David Frank (Ph.D. student in philosophy,
University of Texas, Austin): committee member
Academic Service
Memberships
in professional societies
American
Philosophical Association
International
Society for Environmental Ethics
Offices in professional societies
Nomination
Committee, International Society for Environmental Ethics
Review/Editorial
boards
Environmental Values
(Associate Editor)
Environmental Ethics
(Editorial Board)
Ethics, Place & Environment
(Editorial Board)
International Encyclopedia of Ethics
(Review Board)
Manuscript
refereeing
Oxford
University Press
Routledge
Ethics & the Environment
Environmental Ethics
Environmental Values
Ethics, Place & Environment
International Encyclopedia of Ethics
Ethics & International Affairs
Topics in Contemporary Philosophy
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
University and departmental committees
Faculty Affiliate,
Women's Programs and Studies
Faculty Affiliate,
Environmental Affairs Program
Undergraduate
Committee, Department of Philosophy
Co-organizer of
Societal, Organizational, and Policy Cluster, Infectious Disease Supercluster, Colorado State University (2008-2010)
Faculty Affiliate of
Science, Technology and Society Program, North Carolina State University
(2004-2008)
Philosophy Outcomes Assessment
Committee, Department of Philosophy & Religion, North
Carolina State University (2006)
Ethics Curriculum Committee, Department of Philosophy & Religion, North Carolina State University
(2005)
Steering Committee,
Research Ethics Program, North Carolina State University (2002-2005)
Last updated: February 15,
2012.