Education:
2001
Ph.D., Philosophy, Villanova
University, Villanova, Pennsylvania
1996 M.A.
Philosophy, Villanova
University, Villanova, Pennsylvania
1994 B.A., Philosophy, Salisbury
State University, Salisbury, Maryland |
Courses Taught at UWSP:
| Senior Seminar in Environmental Philosophy (Phil 480/680) |
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Environmental
Ethics (Phil 380) |
| Philosophy of Nature (Phil 345) |
| Eco-feminism (Phil 395) |
| Metaphysics (Phil 310) |
| Introduction to Philosophy (Phil 100) |
| Independent Study |
Areas of Interest
AOS:
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics; 20th Century Continental
Philosophy
AOC:
Philosophy of Nature; Eco-feminism; Metaphysics; Ancient Philosophy; Ethics;
Critical Thinking
Teaching Experience
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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2003-2005
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Adjunct Philosophy Instructor, 1996-2003
Courses
taught:
Environmental Ethics; Deep Ecology; Eco-Feminism; Philosophy of Biology;
Ethics; Independent Study; Logic and Critical Thinking; Introduction to
Philosophy
Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania
Salisbury State University, Salisbury, Maryland
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SCHOLARSHIP
Journal Articles:
“Staying True to Trees: A
Specific Look at Anthropocentrism and
Non-Anthropocentrism,” forthcoming in
Environmental Philosophy (Fall 2008).
“Identification with
Nature: What It Is and Why It Matters,” Ethics and the
Environment 12, no. 2 (2007): 1-22.
“Ethics
and Natural History: Levinas and Other-Than-Human
Animals,”
Environmental Philosophy 3, no. 2 (Fall 2006):
34-43.
“Gestalt-Ontologie und Identifikation mit der Natur:
Über Arne Naess und die Philosophie der Deep
Ecology,”
Natur und Kultur: Transdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für ökologische
Nachhaltigkeit 7, no. 2 (2006): 3-23.
German translation
of “Gestalt Ontology and Identification with Nature:
A Study of Arne Naess and the Philosophy of Deep
Ecology.”
“Arne Naess and the Task
of Gestalt Ontology,”
Environmental
Ethicsi> 2 26, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 21-35.
"Deep
Ecology and Phenomenology,”
Environmental
Philosophy 1, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 20-7.
“’Here
I Stand’: An Interview with Arne Naess,”
Environmental
Philosophy 1, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 6-19.
“The Self of Stars and
Stone: Ecofeminism, Deep Ecology and the Ecological
Self,” The Trumpeter 19, no.3 (2003): 31-45.
“Gaia and Il y a:
Reflections on the Face of the Earth,”
Symposium 7 7, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 173-83.
“Arne
Naess, Val Plumwood, and Deep Ecological
Subjectivity: A Contribution to the ‘Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism
Debate’,”
Ethics and the Environment 7, no. 1 (Spring
2002): 24-38.
“Facing Nature: Levinas
Beyond the Human,”
Philosophy Today 4 44, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 51-9.
Books:
Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in
Merleau-Ponty, , ed. James Hatley, Janice
Maclane and Christian Diehm (Pittsburgh: Duquesne
University Press, 2006).
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters:
“Predators and Prey: On
Hunting and Human Identity,” forthcoming in
Contemporary
Hunting and Fishing in Folklore and Popular Culture,
ed. Dennis Cutchins and Eric
Eliason.
“Facing Nature: vinas
Beyond the Human,” in
Emmanuel
Levinas: Critical Assessments, vol. 4, ed.
Claire Katz (London: Routlege, 2004), pp. 176-87.
(Reprint)
“Natural Disasters,” in Eco-Phenomenology: Getting Back to the Earth Itself, , ed. Ted
Toadvine and Charles S. Brown (Albany: SUNY Press,
2003), pp. 171-85.
Scholarly Awards:
Visiting Scholar, Pace
Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies,
Pace University, New York, New York, Fall 2002.
Grant awarded to conduct
research and direct faculty colloquia on the subject
of ecofeminism and deep ecology, sponsored by the
Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional
Studies.
Book Reviews:
Feminist Interpretations
of Emmanuel Levinas,
ed. Tina Chanter,
APA Newsletters 3 3, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 137-8.
“Politics and Worldviews:
Review of John M. Meyer’s Political Nature,”
Philosophy and
Geography 6 6, no. 1 (February 2003): 123-30.
Professional Presentations
“Minding Nature:
Ecofeminism and Moral Extensionism,” meeting of the
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
(in conjunction with the American Philosophical
Association), Baltimore, December 2007.
“Hunting, Predation, and Ecological Community:
Critical Reflections on Hunting and Belonging to
Nature,” Jerry Jackson Lecture in the Humanities,
Western Carolina University, August 2007.
“Deep Ecology and Identification With Nature,“ lecture to the department
of Philosophy and Religion, Western Carolina
University, August 2007.
“Transcending Natural
History: Levinas and Other-Than-Human Animals,” 6th
biennial meeting of the Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment, University of Oregon, June
2005.
“Effacing Nature: Levinas’s Erasure of the Other-than-Human,” 7th
annual meeting of the International Association for
Environmental Philosophy, Boston, November 2003.
Public Presentations
“Forms of Ecological Community,” presentation given at the Leopold
Education Project’s “Teaching Aldo Leopold” seminar,
Mead Wildlife Area, Milladore, Wisconsin, April 2007.
“Hunting: A Sport on the Decline,” invited
participant on National Public Radio’s
Talk of the
Nation program, February 2, 2006.
Panel discussion on
“Animals in the Moral Community,” Villanova
University, February 2005.
“The New
Discipline of Environmental Ethics,” Pottstown
Unitarian Universalist Church, Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, November 2004.
“Animals,
Ethics and the Law,” Student Animal Legal Defense
Fund Colloquium, Villanova University School of Law,
November 2002.
Panel discussion on “Eating as a Moral Issue,”
Villanova University, October 2000
Panel discussion on “Men
and Feminism: Men Have Their Say on the ‘F Word’,”
Villanova University, September 2000.
Work in Progress:
“Alterity, Value,
Autonomy: Levinas and Environmental Ethics,” to be
included in the volume
Faces of Nature.
Faces of Nature: Levinas and Environmental
Philosophy, co-editor with William
Edelglass and James Hatley.
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