Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Ben Almassi is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy at the College of Lake County, in Grayslake, Illinois, where he teaches environmental ethics, medical ethics, and philosophy of science. He is especially interested in philosophical issues where practical ethics and social epistemology overlap. He welcomes questions and criticisms. E-mail: balmassi@clcillinois.edu
Raymond Anthony is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA. His areas of specialization include Ethical Theory environmental philosophy (especially the nexus between environmental-animal-agricultural-food ethics), the philosophy of technology. His current research interests in these areas deal with social justice, participatory democracy, obligations to future generations and non-human animals. Both in and out of the classroom, Dr. Anthony encourages his students and community partners, respectively, to appreciate the inextricable link between living sustainably and ‘being good at being human.’ E-mail: rxanthony@uaa.alaska.edu; Website: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/philosophy/faculty/raymond_anthony1.cfm
Monica Aufrecht researches epistemic and ethical issues in science and the environment. She has held teaching positions at Linfield College, and Simon Fraser University where she helped establish the Institute for Values in Policy and Science. She was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, and a Graduate Fellow at the Simpson Center at the University of Washington. Her most recent publication is “Climate Change and Structural Emissions: Moral Obligations at the Individual Level,” in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy (2011). E-mail: Monica.Aufrecht@seattlecolleges.edu
Lisa Kretz completed her doctoral training in the Department of Philosophy [End Page 187] at Dalhousie University. Focusing on the intersection of ecology, self-concept and ethics, she argued in favour of a reconceptualization of ecological selfhood. Drawing from her work in not-for-profit environmental, social justice and animal rights communities Lisa’s recent writing has focused on ethical concerns regarding the theory-action gap, moral psychology and attending to pragmatic questions of ethical motivation, and pedagogy that engages students with opportunities to manifest their theoretical ethical commitments in practice. E-mail: lkretz@dal.ca
Lauren Hartzell-Nichols is an acting assistant professor at the University of Washington in Seattle appointed in the Program on Values in Society and the Program on Environment. She has published in journals such as Ethics, Policy & Environment, Environmental Values, and WIREs Climate Change. Her work addresses the complexity of ethical decision making in the face of significant, intergenerational risks with a focus on climate change. She holds a B.A. from Connecticut College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. E-mail: greenphd@uw.edu
Stephen James Purdey (PhD University of Toronto) is an International Relations specialist and Research Affiliate at the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), University of Waterloo, Canada. His current academic work focuses on the environmental impact and the normative underpinnings of the ubiquitous commitment to economic growth; and on the evolution of new forms of global governance to meet current existential challenges. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Purdey worked for several years in the private sector, in Canadian federal politics, and with NGOs such as the United Nations Association, the World Federalists and the Earth Council. E-mail: s.purdey@utoronto.ca
Toby Svoboda is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, whose primary areas of research are in ethical theory and environmental ethics. His published papers on the ethics of geoengineering have appeared in Ethics, Policy & Environment (co-authored); The Journal of Applied Philosophy; and Public Affairs Quarterly (co-authored). He also has published on meta-ethics, Kant, and environmental ethical theory. Email: tobysvoboda@gmail.com
Byron Williston is associate professor of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. His primary areas of interest are environmental [End Page 188] ethics, moral psychology, and early-modern philosophy. He has published on Descartes, Locke, Nietzsche, motivated irrationality, the philosophy of emotions, moral reasons, moral dilemmas, and climate change among other topics. He is the author of Environmental Ethics for Canadians (Oxford, 2011). He was the Kitchener Centre candidate for the Green Party of Canada in the 2010 federal election. E-mail: bwilliston@wlu.ca
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and...
