Notes on Contributors

Susan Power Bratton is Chair of Environmental Studies at Baylor University. She has a Ph.D. in ecology from Cornell University, a Ph.D. in humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a graduate certificate in environmental ethics from the University of Georgia. Bratton is the author of two books on Christian environmental ethics and has published numerous articles on applied environmental problems as well as Celtic monasticism and nature. Email: Susan_Bratton@Baylor.edu

Christian Diehm recently received a Ph.D. from Villanova University and teaches courses in environmental ethics, deep ecology, and ecofeminism. His research has been in the area of phenomenology and environmental philosophy, and he is currently writing on the connections between deep ecology and phenomenology. His published work focuses on the figure of Emmanuel Levinas, and he has contributed to the volume Eco-Phenomenology: Getting Back tothe Earth Itself (forthcoming 2002, SUNY Press). Email: christian.diehm@villanova.edu

Jennifer Everett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. She teaches courses in ethics, environmental ethics, and feminist philosophy. Her research focuses on animal welfare ethics, environmental justice, and the ethics of consumption. She is currently working on an anthology on the relationship between animal welfare ethics and environmental ethics. Email: afjje1@uaa.alaska.edu

Lisa Gerber teaches philosophy and humanities for the University Honors Program at the University of New Mexico. She has written on environmental virtues and vices, particularly the vice of misanthropy and the virtues of humility, intimacy, and attentiveness. Email: gerber@unm.edu

Ned Hettinger teaches social, political, and environmental philosophy at the College of Charleston where he is Professor of Philosophy and coordinator of the minor in environmental studies. He has written about exotic species, environmental disobedience, disequilibrium ecology and wildness value, biotechnology, intellectual property, animal experimentation, and affirmative action. Hettinger is currently working on a book titled Nature as Independent Other: The Theory and Practice of Respecting Natural Autonomy and Wildness. Email: hettingern@cofc.edu

Shawn Hinz received his undergraduate degree from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, in biology and a master's degree from Western Washington University in environmental science. He works as an environmental scientist for the RETEC Group, Inc. His interest in policy and ethics overlaps with his work as a consultant for industrial stakeholders. Working with fishers and coming from a family of fishermen has given Shawn a strong appreciation for the power and beauty of the sea. Email: shinz@onebox.com

Eric Katz is Professor of Philosophy and director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community (Rowman & Littlefield 1997) and co-editor, with Andrew Light and David Rothenberg, of Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology (MIT 2000), and, with Andrew Light, Environmental Pragmatism (Routledge 1996). His current research involves the meaning of place and the philosophical implications of the Holocaust. Email: eric.m.katz@njit.edu

Andrew Light is Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy in the Applied Philosophy Group at New York University, as well as Research Fellow at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy & Public Policy at Lancaster University in England. Light is the author of more than fifty articles and book chapters on environmental ethics, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of film, and he has edited or co-edited thirteen books, including Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (MIT 2002). His monograph, Film, Philosophy, and Social Criticism, is forthcoming in 2003 from Westview. Email: andrew.light@nyu.edu

Wayne Ouderkirk is Professor of Philosophy at Empire State College, the State University of New York's nontraditional college. He is co-editor, with Jim Hill, of Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy (SUNY Press 2002). His current interests are wilderness issues and the epistemological dimensions of environmental philosophy. Email: wayne.ouderkirk@esc.edu

Kristen Shrader-Frechette holds the O'Neill Chair in Philosophy and is also Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Author of fourteen books...