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13Rousseau, Cronon, and the Wilderness IdeaEnvironmental Ethics 24 (2): 169-188. 2002.William Cronon has recently argued that the current debate concerning justifications for protecting wilderness relies upon conceptions of natural value premised upon a nature/society dualism that originated in older nature writing but which still animates contemporary thinking. This dualism, he argues, prevents adequate realization of the human and social places in nature, and is ultimately counterproductiveto the task of articulating the proper relationship between humans and the natural world.…Read more
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13Justice in the GreenhouseSocial Philosophy Today 19 89-101. 2003.The current debate surrounding the implementation of the Kyoto Treaty raises several issues that ought to be of interest to social and political philosophers. Proponents and critics alike have invoked ideas of fairness in justification of their positions. The two distinct conceptions of fairness that are involved in this debate—one of fair shares, and another of fair burdens—helpfully illuminate the proper role of fairness in designing an equitable and effective global climate regime. In this pa…Read more
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10Review of Understanding Environmental Policy (review)Environmental Ethics 29 (4): 443-444. 2007.
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8Environmental Success Stories: Solving Major Ecological Problems & Confronting Climate Change, Frank M. Dunnivant , 256 pp., $90 cloth, $30 paper (review)Ethics and International Affairs 32 (1): 127-129. 2018.
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4America (The Book)In The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy, Wiley. 2013.The Daily Show has emerged as one of the most influential media sources for political information. The same reliance on satire and parody as a means of social and political critique is on display in the show's spin‐off book, America. Both the book and television show aim to hold up a mirror to the contemporary United States. The lack of meaningful public participation in self‐governance isn't America's only critique of contemporary American democracy. A second theme is the narrow range of demogr…Read more
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4Two Shades of Green: Food and Environmental SustainabilityEnvironmental Ethics 28 (2): 129-145. 2006.The politics of food illustrates an enduring tension within environmental ethics and green political theory: the oft-assumed division between those thinkers for whom humanitarian goals remain prominent but who situate them within a normative framework stressing environmental sustainability and those thinkers who reject any distinctively humanitarian interests as untenably anthropocentric. In posing the problem as a moral dilemma between feeding people and saving nature, light and dark green valu…Read more
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America (The Book): Textbook parody and democratic theoryIn Jason Holt (ed.), The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News, Blackwell. pp. 205--217. 2007.
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University of Colorado, BoulderRegular Faculty
Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |