Notes on Contributors

Ethics and the Environment, 5(2):323 Copyright © 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. ISSN: 1085-6633 All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Elisabeth Boetzkes is associate professor of philosophy and Director of Women's Studies Programme at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Her areas of interest are health care ethics, philosophy of law and religion, and environmental ethics, all of which she approaches from a feminist perspective. Her most recent research is in the area of gender and risk assessment in environmental and genetic decision making. David Castle teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Guelph where he also advises the university's Food System Biotechnology Centre on the ethics of biotechnology. He is a philosopher of science with special interest in biology and applied ethics in the life sciences. His research focuses on the nature of scientific explanation in ecology and the relationship between ecological theory and environmental ethics. Michael Allen Fox teaches philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he specializes in 19th-century European philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of peace, environmental ethics, and ethics and animals. His most recent book is Deep Vegetarianism (Temple University Press, 1999). Stephen Haller is assistant professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, where he works on environmental issues, ethics, and decision making. For several years he worked as a research chemist in environmental issues. His book, Apocalypse Soon? Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe, is forthcoming from McGill-Queen's University Press. Jason Scott Robert holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship and an Honourary Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is completing a book in the philosophy of biology and is beginning another about public health. 323 324 ETHICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Vol. 5, No. 2,2000 Raymond A. Rogers teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University , North York, Ontario. VaI Plumwood teaches in the Department of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she also lives. She is a forest dweller, bushwalker, and crocodile survivor. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (Routledge, 1993). Marc A. Saner immigrated to Canada from Switzerland in 1991 and worked as an environmental risk assessor for the Federal Government of Canada. After pursuing advanced degrees in philosophy, he now is the managing director of the Ethics and Policy Issues Centre at Carleton University. He also teaches environmental ethics and is a private consultant on environmental science and ethics issues. He co-edits the newsletter of the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics and maintains their website. Most of Tom Settle's research for the 30 years he taught at the University of Guelph, where he is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and a member of the University's Animal Care Committee, has been in philosophy of science, philosophy of religion and ethics, including agricultural and environmental ethics, except that in recent years he has worked more especially in philosophical theology, which he currently teaches as Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, Toronto. He helps his wife run a sheep farm. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is cross-appointed to the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, is a member of the Collaborative Program in Bioethics, and teaches in the Graduate Institute for Environmental Studies. Her teaching and research publications are in the area of environmental and architectural phenomenology . James P. Sterba is professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches moral and political philosophy. He has written more than 150 articles and published 18 books, including How to Make People Just (1988), Contemporary Ethics (1989), Feminist Philosophies (2nd edition, edited with Janet A. Kourany and Rosemarie Tong, 1999), Morality in Practice (6th edition, 1994), and Justice for Here and Now (1998). Justice was awarded the Book of the Year Award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy. His most recent book, Three Challenges to Ethics: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism, is forthcoming (Oxford University Press). ...