Overview
We are a community of graduate students and faculty in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University (MSU) who are engaged in research, teaching, and outreach in environmental philosophy and ethics.
Our work covers topics such as agricultural ethics, environmental justice, values in environmental sciences, food sovereignty, ecofeminism, environmental education, animal ethics, ecological restoration, climate justice, epistemic integration in environmental sciences, sustainability ethics, and environmental pragmatism.
Much of this work is in active dialogue with environmental and agricultural sciences and other humanities disciplines on campus, nationally and internationally. Faculty actively contribute to institutions such as the National Academy of Sciences, the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council, the Department of Interior Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science, the National Research Council Advisory Committee on Biotechnology, the Landscape Conservation Cooperative National Council, the Northwest Climate Science Center, and the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition.
Graduate student and faculty work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Shalom Center for Justice and Peace, Spencer Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Kellogg Biological Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Sustainable Michigan Endowed Program.
This community offers the opportunity for advanced study, research, and engagement in environmental philosophy and ethics at the doctoral level, for students enrolled both in the Department of Philosophy and other doctoral programs at MSU.
Opportunities for Study in the Department of Philosophy
Philosophical and ethical thinking and skills can play important roles in our efforts to address many environmental and agricultural issues. The MSU Department of Philosophy offers graduate and undergraduate courses on environmental and agricultural topics. Past graduate courses have included Environmental Justice, Animal Ethics, and Sustainability Ethics. Other, regularly offered graduate courses on bioethics, feminist philosophy, and the philosophy of science often provide complimentary topics, issues, and frameworks for environmental philosophy and ethics.
Annual undergraduate courses include Environmental Ethics, Ethics and Biotechnology, and Animal Ethics. Faculty and graduate students also pursue grant-funded and other collaborative projects that address environmental and agricultural issues. Coursework and participation in such projects are crucial to how we engage in research, teaching, and outreach in environmental philosophy and ethics.
Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Study at MSU
Seminars on environmental and agricultural issues are available in other departments. Units that focus on environmental research and education include Community Sustainability and Crop and Soil Sciences. Other departments have strong groups of faculty interested in environmental issues, including Writing, Rhetoric and American Culture, Sociology, and Anthropology. Our students have the opportunity to expand their curriculum by pursuing graduate specializations in related interdisciplinary fields:
Animal Studies
Social Science and Humanities Perspectives, which is administered by the Department of Sociology, provides graduate students with basic knowledge of relationships between humans and other animals and how they are linked together in a fragile biosphere. The program includes a doctoral and master’s graduate specialization, cutting-edge research, a monthly seminar series on the MSU campus, and a registered student organization that connects academic initiatives with the local community.
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (SAFS)
Students who are enrolled in any graduate program at MSU are eligible to complete the MSU Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (SAFS) Graduate Specialization. The requirements are 9 credits: 3 credits of required courses and 6 credits of elective courses. Students that registered before Fall 2021 can elect to finish the original EFFS program, or the updated graduate SAFS specialization requirement
Environmental Science and Policy (ESPP)
MSU’s Environmental Science and Policy Program was established in 2003 to build graduate education programs that are innovative, interdisciplinary, and campus-wide. The program facilitates interdisciplinary environmental research and MSU and, in particular, links MSU research with national and global research priorities. The doctoral specialization offers courses designed to show how different disciplines conceptualize environmental issues and how scientific information can be brought to bear on environmental decision-making and environmental policy.
Gender, Justice and Environmental Change (GJEC)
Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change is a graduate specialization available as an elective for students who are enrolled in master’s and doctoral degree programs at Michigan State University. The specialization is sponsored jointly by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the College of Social Science. The program is designed in particular to examine these issues and processes from both local and global perspectives, challenging traditional dichotomies between the First and Third Worlds, the North and the South.
Projects
Students and faculty involved in environmental philosophy and ethics (EP&E) at MSU currently sustain several interdisciplinary projects throughout the University, the broader Lansing community, the state of Michigan and the Great Lakes region. These projects integrate philosophical skills and concepts with work that addresses felt environmental and agricultural issues.
Humanities Without Walls
Global Midwest Initiative: The New Ethics of Food
EP&E faculty Gretel Van Wieren, Paul Thompson, and Kyle Whyte are working with MSU Digital Humanities Librarian Thomas Padilla, Nancy Tuana at Penn State, Robert Steiffer and Jesse Steinberg at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and EP&E graduate student Ian Werkheiser on a project entitled “The New Ethics of Food.” This project is part of the Mellon Foundation-funded Humanities Without Walls-Globale Midwest Initiative. The project seeks to build up a network of transdisciplinary research and activism centered on the emerging ethics of food coming out of the problems and potentials in the Midwest’s unique position.
Values and Policy in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science:
A Dialogue-based Framework for Ethics Education
NSF funded project to develop an approach to graduate ethics education in interdisciplinary environmental science courses that better prepares the next generation of environmental scientists to solve complex problems. A structured yet flexible ethics education framework will be created for developing course modules that can subsequently be adopted for use in classroom dialogue, building on results of work previously funded by NSF (the Toolbox Project). Students in courses using these modules will participate actively in identifying and assessing values-related challenges that are at the intersection of multiple environmental perspectives and at the intersection of science with policy.
The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative
TDI partners with environmental initiatives and teams, providing communication enhancement and team development opportunities, along with data for use in evaluating integrative activities. Current long-term partners include AgBioResearch at Michigan State University and the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International’s Woody Weeds in East Africa project. Previous partners have included the Northwest Climate Science Center (NW CSC) and the Regional Approaches to Climate Change—Pacific Northwest Agriculture (REACCH) Cooperative Agricultural Project. TDI also provides one-time workshops and has worked with partners interested in sustainability planning, addressing environmental disasters, and issues related to food.
Sustainable Michigan Endowed Project
SMEP serves as a catalyst and convener of interdisciplinary dialogue and research around existing and emerging sustainability topics, and has invested considerable resources in exploring the implications of sustainability particularly for the future of Michigan. It has developed in depth conceptualizations about what comprises engaged sustainability scholarship and how that would translate into research, teaching and outreach. SMEP is now moving to widen the recognition of the significance of these differences for the role of science in addressing societal concerns.
Faculty
Heather Douglas is an Associate Professor in MSU’s Department of Philosophy. Her research focuses on the relationship between science and democracy, including the role of social and ethical values in science, the nature of scientists’ responsibility in and for science, and science-policy interfaces such as science advising, science funding, and science communication. She is interested in how citizens can and should interact with science, including the bases for citizens’ trust in scientists, and had a particular interest in the use of science for environmental policy-making and in energy policy. She is the author of many articles, edited collections, and her monograph Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). She has also taught environmental ethics for many years, and as a result of this, has put together a textbook, Environmental Ethics from the Roots Up (Cognella Press 2016), which is geared towards non-philosophers interested in environmental issues. In 2016, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Kevin Elliott is Professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife at MSU with a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy. He is affiliated faculty in the Environmental Science & Policy Program. His research interests are at the interface between the philosophy of science and practical ethics, focusing especially on environmental issues and research ethics. Many of the case studies that he has examined involve contemporary research on environmental pollution, including endocrine disruption, nanotechnology, multiple chemical sensitivity, and hormesis. His latest book, A Tapestry of Values: An Introduction to Values in Science was released in 2017 by Oxford University Press. He is published in journals such as Ethics, Policy & Environment; Environmental Ethics; Science, Technology & Human Values; Accountability in Research; Science and Engineering Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; Cell; Human and Experimental Toxicology; and Environmental Science and Technology.
Matt Ferkany is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Michigan State University. His teaching and scholarship focus on normative ethical problems relating to moral education, well-being and virtue and environmental ethics and education. Ferkany is especially interested in the relationship between virtue, moral principles, and our good, and what that means for how we can learn to be or become good people, especially in our relationship to the natural environment. He is currently working on a book about ethics in science and environmental education. But he has also published work on the sense of self-worth and the importance of fostering self-esteem relative to other aims of education. Ferkany’s work has been published in journals like Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Environmental Values, Theory and Research in Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Michael O’Rourke is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and AgBioResearch at MSU, and affiliated faculty in the Environmental Science & Policy Program. He is also the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinarity (http://c4i.msu.edu/), Director of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI, http://tdi.msu.edu/), and the Executive Director of the TDI Center. His research interests include the nature of epistemic integration and communication in collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and the nature of linguistic communication between intelligent agents. He has been PI or co-PI on grants funded by the US National Science Foundation, NASA, Office of Naval Research, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 1998 to 2010, he served as co-director of the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, and he was co-editor of the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series published by the MIT Press. He has published in journals such as Synthese, Bioscience, Philosophy of Science, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, and Journal of Philosophy.
Sean Valles is an Associate Professor, joint appointed in the Lyman Briggs College (75%) and Department of Philosophy (25%). His research specialty is in philosophy of population health. His work overlaps with environmental in three particular areas. First, he has begun publishing on the topic of the bioethics of climate change’s health impacts. Second, he is collaborating with Michael O’Rourke, Kyle Whyte and Zach Piso on an NSF ethics education grant, developing an ethics curriculum for interdisciplinary environmental science graduate students. Third, he is working on a history project about population control advocacy and its relationship to conservationism. Dr. Valles’ articles have appeared in journals such as Preventive Medicine, Philosophy & Biology, Studies in History & Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
Gretel Van Wieren (vanwie12@msu.edu) is Professor of Religious Studies where her courses and research focus on the intersection of religion, ethics, and the environment. She is author of the books, Listening at Lookout Creek: Nature in Spiritual Practice (Oregon State University Press, 2019), Food, Farming and Religion: Emerging Ethical Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) and Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration (Georgetown University Press, 2013). Van Wieren’s articles have appeared in the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology, Conservation Biology, Environmental Ethics, and the Public Philosophy Journal among others. She is recipient of a 2016 Mellon Foundation/Humanities Without Walls grant on the New Ethics of Food, and a 2015 H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest writing residency. Van Wieren is founder of The New Ethics of Food Network, a network of university and community-based partners committed to research and dialogue around a broadened understanding of food ethics, and is a regular contributor to the City Creature’s blog of the Center for Humans & Nature. She co-leads MSU’s Hawaii Study Away Program and the Department of Religious Studies Nonprofit Leadership Concentration. She received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University.
Paul B. Thompson held the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University from 2003 until 2022. As of the 2022-2023 academic year, he is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy. Thompson has worked on four problems in environmental philosophy. His dissertation on the philosophy and evaluation of environmental and health risk, especially as deriving nuclear power, set the stage for career-long studies of risk analysis, risk communication and the metaphysics of risk. After doing work on the risks of genetically engineered crops, he developed an abiding interest in the role and philosophy of agriculture as a neglected orientation to the problems of environmental philosophy. From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone (2015) won the Book-of-the-Year award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. Thompson has also contributed to the philosophy of sustainability, a project linked to his interest in public philosophy, with books including The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (2010) and Sustainability—What Everyone Needs to Know (2021). Finally, he has worked closely with cognitive ethologists on standards for improvement of the conditions in which animals are housed, especially in agricultural production systems.
Students
Blake Ginsburg
Blake Ginsburg is a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy and is pursuing specializations in Animal Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. His research interests include animal and environmental philosophy, critical animal studies, ecofeminism, ethology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of technology. Blake holds a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Biological Science (concentration in Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation) from California State University, Fullerton. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies and a MA degree in Environmental Philosophy from the University of Montana. While at the University of Montana, Blake wrote a thesis that explored the ethical dimensions and transformative significance of Timothy Treadwell’s relationships with brown bears and red foxes in Katmai National Park and Preserve before he and his partner, Amy Huguenard, were killed and eaten by a bear in 2003. Blake is currently working on philosophical issues that emerge at the intersection of environmental philosophy and animal philosophy. He is particularly interested in the value of philosophical ethology and ethological philosophy (or ethosophy) as disclosive and generative mediums with great promise for drawing attention to and enacting alternative human-animal relational possibilities. He considers these projects to be significant insomuch as they have the potential to inspire the transformation of our personal and collective worlds in view of the large-scale anthropogenic violence that is routinely enacted against marginalized peoples, nonhuman animals, and the rest of the more-than-human world.
Alumni
Julia Gibson is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University. She envisions her research taking shape where the boundaries between feminist, political, and environmental philosophy grow pleasantly and productively murky. She graduated from MSU in 2019, writing her dissertation on palliative and remembrance ethics for the dead and the dying of climate change with the aid of Indigenous, Afrofuturist, and feminist science fiction fantasy. Her current research involves growing this project and its narrative methodology, as well as digging deeper into the related topic of transformative interspecies justice. Julia has authored publications in bioethics, technology studies, mobilities studies, ecocriticism, and animal ethics.
Monica List is a Global Animal Welfare Advisor for World Animal Protection, a global non-profit animal welfare organization headquartered in London, England. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2019, with specializations in Animal Studies and Ecological Food and Farming Systems. Monica also holds degrees in Veterinary Medicine and Bioethics from the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica. Her philosophical interests include ethical issues of food and agricultural systems, and the ethics and epistemology of interdisciplinary collaborations bridging science and the humanities. In her current role at World Animal Protection she provides support in the areas of animal welfare science, ethics, and policy to the International Animals in Farming and Corporate Engagement teams.
Esme G. Murdock is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. She is also an Associate Director of SDSU’s Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs. She works in the areas of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics and social and political philosophy with particular attention to environmental justice, philosophies of race and gender, and settler colonial theory. Her research explores the intersections of social/political relations and environmental health, integrity, and agency. Specifically, her work troubles the purported stability of dominant, largely euro-descendent, and settler-colonial philosophies through centering conceptions of land and relating to land found within African American, Afro-Diasporic, and Indigenous eco-philosophies. She has work published in Environmental Values, the Journal of Global Ethics, and The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City.
Dr. Samantha Noll is an Assistant Professor in The School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (PPPA) at Washington State University and is affiliated with the Functional Genomics Initiative. Her research made contributions to the fields of bioethics, environmental philosophy, and philosophy of science. In particular, she’s published widely on topics such as how values impact food systems, food justice and food sovereignty movements, and the application of biotechnology. As she’s an avid gardener and nature lover, she is no stranger to getting her hands dirty.
Zachary Piso is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. His work explores the social and ethical values at stake in environmental science, especially in interdisciplinary environmental research that draws on the social sciences in explanations of environmental change and resilience. Recently he is exploring ethical and epistemic questions arising in food systems research, including an ongoing study of ecological citizenship and environmental governance in Rust Belt urban agriculture. These public philosophical engagements emphasize stakeholder engagement and participatory methodologies that tie together interests in environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, and American pragmatism.
Ian Werkheiser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and the Director of the Center for Collaboration and Ethics at UTRGV. He works in environmental ethics, philosophy of food, social epistemology, as well as social and political philosophy. His work focuses on how marginalized and oppressed communities address hazards, particularly hazards to their local environment and food system, by building and utilizing epistemic capacity. He is particularly interested in the ways that UTRGV can become an anchor institution in the Valley and benefit those communities of resistance.
Charles Hayes graduated with a doctoral degree in philosophy, with a graduate specialization in Environmental Science and Policy. His research centers around environmental ethics, with specific interests in the ethics of collaborative public land management, the project of rewilding, and environmental virtue ethics. He often approaches these topics in conversation with the philosophy of technology, with the hope of illuminating how our technological age has shaped the way we understand and inhabit our environments. Aside from study, Charles enjoys walking farther than is reasonable and stopping to identify trees.
Jessica Richardson was a doctoral student with the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. Her areas of interest are in environmental philosophy, feminist theory, environmental justice, and bioethics. Jessica received her bachelor of arts from the University of Minnesota and double majored in the Philosophy and Biology, Society & Environments (BSE) programs. With interests in environmental justice and the relation between people and their environment, Jessica looks to draw together the research experience she’s had through lab work, broadly focusing on society and philosophical work that draws on Feminist thought to look more closely at connections between race, gender and environmental issue. Her position as a first generation black scholar informs and drives her work and academic interests in furthering work centered on race and environments. In her spare time Jessica is a walker (no not the Walking Dead!) and enjoys photographing graffiti and nature landscapes.
Shakara Tyler was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and also identifies as a returning-generation farmer, seedkeeper, and community organizer. Her primary research explores community-centered pedagogies and decolonial and participatory research methodologies at the intersections of food justice, food sovereignty, environmental justice and climate justice movement building primarily among Black communities. She serves as a board member of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) and Detroit Peoples’ Food Co-op, a coordinating member of the Black Dirt Farm Collective (BDFC) within the Mid-Atlantic region. She has worked with the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems as the Underserved Farmer Development Specialist where she provided technical assistance to underserved farming groups such as farmers of color, women farmers and beginning farmers as well as developed research agendas focused on better supporting these communities. She has also served on the advisory board as a research and educational consultant with the Southeast African American Farmers Organic Network (SAAFON) in Georgia. Her research has been funded through the Spencer Foundation and the National Academy of Education. Her articles have appeared in academic and activist texts such as “Land justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons in the U.S.” and “Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender.”
Publications
P. B. Thompson, “How We Got to Now: Why the U.S. and Europe Went Different Ways on GMOs,” in The Conversation on Biotechnology, M. Zimmer, ed. Baltimore, MD: 2023, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 76-85/
P. B. Thompson From Silo to Spoon: Local and Global Food Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.
C. Kendig, T. Selfie and P.B. Thompson. “Biotechnology Ethics for Food and Agriculture,” Science 376 (2022): 1279-1280.
P.B. Thompson, “Industrial Agriculture,” in The Routledge Companion to Environmental Philosophy, B. Hale, A. Light and L. Lawhon, eds. New York: 2022, Routledge, pp. 470-480.
P. B. Thompson, “Richard Haynes and the early years of Agriculture and Human Values,” Agriculture and Human Values Online Nov. 2022, ttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10379-2
Rinkus, M. A., Donovan, S., Hall, T. E., O’Rourke, M. (2021). Using a survey to initiate and sustain productive group dialogue in focus groups. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 24(3): 327–340. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1786240
Fam, D., O’Rourke, M. (Eds.) (2021). Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Failures: Lessons Learned from Cautionary Tales. London: Routledge.
O’Rourke, M., Fam, D. (2021). Theoretical and empirical perspectives on failure: An introduction. In D. Fam and M. O’Rourke (Eds.), Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Failures: Lessons Learned from Cautionary Tales (pp. 1–20). London: Routledge.
O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S., Eigenbrode, S. D., Vasko, S. E. (2021). Failure and what to do next: Lessons from the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative. In D. Fam and M. O’Rourke (Eds.), Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Failures: Lessons Learned from Cautionary Tales (pp. 97–113). London: Routledge.
Jacalyn Beck, Kevin C. Elliott, Charlie Booher, Kristen Renn, and Robert Montgomery, “The Application of Reflexivity for Conservation Science,” Biological Conservation 262 (2021): 109362.
Erin Cech, Isis H. Settles, Kendra S. Cheruvelil, Kevin C. Elliott, Georgina M. Montgomery, and Sheila T. Brassel, “The Social is Professional: The Effects of Team Climate on Professional Outcomes for LGBTQ Persons in Environmental Science,” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 27 (2021): 25-48.
Theo Brock, Kevin C. Elliott, Anja Gladbach, Caroline Moermond, Joerg Romeis, Thomas-Benjamin Seiler, Keith Solomon, Gerhard Dohmen, “Open Science in Regulatory Environmental Risk Assessment,” Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 17 (2021): 1229-1242.
Kevin C. Elliott, “The Value-Ladenness of Transparency in Science: Lessons from Lyme Disease,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 88 (2021): 1-9.
P. B. Thompson and P. E. Norris, Sustainability: What Everyone Needs to Know New York: 2021, Oxford University Press.
P. B. Thompson, Food System Transformation and the Role of Gene Technology: An Ethical Analysis, Ethics and International Relations 35(2021): 35-49.
A. Thompson, C. Wolf, E. Brister & P. Thompson. Author Meets Critics: Paul Thompson, The Spirit of the Soil, 2nd Ed., Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2021: DOI:10.1080/21550085.2021.1904528
Hubbs, G., O’Rourke, M., Orzack, S. H. (Eds.). (2020). The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative: The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Crowley, S., O’Rourke, M. (2020). Communication failure and cross-disciplinary research. In G. Hubbs, M. O’Rourke, and S. H. Orzack (Eds.), The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative: The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice (pp. 1–16). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S. (2020). How it works: The Toolbox dialogue method in practice. In G. Hubbs, M. O’Rourke, and S. H. Orzack (Eds.), The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative: The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice (pp. 17–36). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
O’Rourke, M., Robinson, B. (2020). Communication and integration in cross-disciplinary activity. In G. Hubbs, M. O’Rourke, and S. H. Orzack (Eds.), The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative: The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice (pp. 58–81). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
O’Rourke, M., Hall, T. E., Laursen, B. K. (2020). The power of dialogue. In G. Hubbs, M. O’Rourke, and S. H. Orzack (Eds.), The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative: The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice (pp. 94–115). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Rinkus, M. A., O’Rourke, M. (2020). Qualitative analyses of the effectiveness of Toolbox dialogues. In G. Hubbs, M. O’Rourke, and S. H. Orzack (Eds.), The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative: The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice (pp. 142–161). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Eigenbrode, S. D., Vasko, S. E., Malavisi, A., Laursen, B. K., O’Rourke, M. (2020). Future directions for the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative. In G. Hubbs, M. O’Rourke, and S. H. Orzack (Eds.), The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative: The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice (pp. 162–178). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Hubbs, G., O’Rourke, M., Eigenbrode, S. D., Rinkus, M. A., Malavisi, A. (2020). Toolbox workshop case studies. In G. Hubbs, M. O’Rourke, and S. H. Orzack (Eds.), The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative: The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice (pp. 179–202). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Halpern, M. K., O’Rourke, M. (2020). Power in science communication collaborations. Journal of Science Communication 19 (04), C02. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.19040302.
McLeskey, C., Berling, E., O’Rourke, M., Pennock, R. (2020). The evolution of the Scientific Virtues Toolbox approach to responsible conduct of research training. In W. Banzhaf et al. (Ed.), Evolution in Action: Past, Present, and Future (pp. 535–550). Dordrecht: Springer.
O’Rourke, M., Vasko, S. E., McLeskey, C., Rinkus, M. A. (2020). Philosophical dialogue as field philosophy. In E. Brister and R. Frodeman (Eds), A Guide to Field Philosophy: Case Studies and Practical Strategies (pp. 48–65). New York: Routledge.
Bammer, G., O’Rourke, M., O’Connell, D., Neuhauser, L., Midgley, G., Klein, J.T., Grigg, N.J., Gadlin, H., Elsum, I.R., Bursztyn, M., Fulton, E.A., Pohl, C., Smithson, M., Vilsmaier, U., Bergmann, M., Jaeger, J., Merkx, F., Vienni Baptista, B., Burgman, M.A., Walker, D.H., Young, J., Bradbury, H., Crawford, L., Haryanto, B., Pachanee, C., Polk, M., Richardson, G.P. (2020). Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems: when is it needed, where can it be found and how can it be strengthened? Palgrave Communications. 6:5: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0380-0.
Kevin C. Elliott, “Framing Conservation: “Biodiversity” and the Values Embedded in Scientific Language,” Environmental Conservation 47 (2020): 260-268.
Steven Gray, Charlie Booher, Kevin C. Elliott, Daniel Kramer, John Waller, Joshua Millspaugh, Bernard Kissui, and Robert Montgomery, “Research-Implementation Gap Limits the Actionability of Human-Carnivore Conflict Studies in East Africa,” Animal Conservation 23 (2020): 7-17.
P. B. Thompson, フィールドからフォークへ：すべての人のための食品倫理 (Japanese translation of From Field to Fork, 2020)
P. B. Thompson, Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective 3rd Ed. New York: 2020, Springer.
P. B. Thompson, “Philosophical Ethics and the Improvement of Farmed Animal Lives,” Animal Frontiers 10 (2020): 21-28. Open access at: https://academic.oup.com/af/article/10/1/21/5699798?guestAccessKey=8903cab8-0558-4b24-8e30-09a28dede9c5
J. Jauernig, I. Pies, P. B. Thompson, and V. Valentinov. “Agrarian Vision, Industrial Vision, and Rent-Seeking: A Viewpoint.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (2020): 391-400.
P. B. Thompson and J. L. Talley, “Resilience as a Systems Concept, with an Application to the American West,” in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience, K. A. Parker and H. E. Keith, eds. Lanham, MD: 2020, Lexington Books, pp. 195-212.
Gary L. Ginsberg, Kristi Pullen Fedinick, Gina M. Solomon, Kevin C. Elliott, John J. Vandenberg, Stan Barone, and John R. Bucher, “New Toxicology Tools and the Emerging Paradigm Shift in Environmental Decision-Making,” Environmental Health Perspectives 127(12) (2019): 125002.
Berling, E., McLeskey, C., O’Rourke, M., Pennock, R. (2019). A virtue-based responsible conduct of research curriculum: Pilot test results. Science and Engineering Ethics. 25(3): 899–910.
Meagher, K.H. and Thompson, P.B. “Before We Make a Pigs Ear of It: How North Carolina Hog-Farming Nuisance Suits Provide a Context for the Ethics of Gene Editing,” North Carolina Law Review 97(2019): 1273-1328.
O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S., Laursen, B., Robinson, B., Vasko, S. E. (2019). Disciplinary diversity in teams, integrative approaches from unidisciplinarity to transdisciplinarity. In K. L. Hall, A. L. Vogel, and R. T. Croyle (Eds.), Advancing Social and Behavioral Health Research through Cross-Disciplinary Team Science: Principles for Success. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer. Forthcoming.
Robinson, B., Gonnerman, C., O’Rourke, M. (2019). Experimental philosophy of science and philosophical differences across the sciences. Philosophy of Science. 86(3): 551–576.
Thompson, P.B. “Smells Like Team Spirit: A Response to Comments on The Spirit of the Soil,” Ethics Policy and the Environment. Online first. DOI: 10.1080/2155085.2019.1652236
Thompson, P.B. “Emerging (Food) Technology as an Environmental and Philosophical Issue in the Era of Climate Change,” in Food, Environment and Climate Change: Justice at the Intersections, E. Gilson and S. Kenehan, eds. Lanham, MA: 2019, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 195-212.
Valles, S., Piso, Z., O’Rourke, M. (2019). Coupled ethical-epistemic analysis as a tool for environmental science. Ethics, Policy & Environment. DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2019.1652288.
Van Wieren, Gretel. “A New Food Ethics and Discourses of Difference,” with Tiffany Tsantsoulas, Robert Chiles, Stephen Rachman, Renee Wallace, Public Philosophy Journal (2019).
Van Wieren, Gretel. “Author Meets Critics: Paul Thompson’s From Field to Fork,” with Zachary Piso, Public Philosophy Journal (2019).
Van Wieren, Gretel. “Getting Wasted: Going Beyond ‘Agrarian vs. Industrial,’ and Moving Towards a New Food Ethics,” with Stephen Rachman, Robert Chiles, Tiffany Tsantsoulas, and Renee Wallace, Public Philosophy Journal (2019).
Van Wieren, Gretel. Listening at Lookout Creek: Nature in Spiritual Practice (Oregon State University Press, 2019) — http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/listening-at-lookout-creek.
Van Wieren, Gretel. “‘Taking back the narrative’ — A dialogue with Food Plus Detroit’s Renee Wallace about culture change, consciousness, and compost,” with Robert Chiles, Stephen Rachman, and Tiffany Tsantsoulas, Public Philosophy Journal (2019).
Elliott, K.C. “Roles for Socially-Engaged Philosophy of Science in Environmental Policy,” in David Boonin (ed.), Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy (Palgrave-MacMillan).
Ferkany, M. Legitimizing education in sustainability. Theory and Research in Education 16(1): 99-103.
Ferkany, M. Environmental Education. In B. Hale and A. Light, eds., Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics. New York, NY: Routledge.
Hall, T. E., Piso, Z., Engebretson, J., O’Rourke, M. (2018). Evaluating a dialogue-based approach to teaching about values and policy in graduate transdisciplinary environmental science programs. PLoS ONE. 13(9): e0202948. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202948.
Lake, D. and Thompson, P.B. “Philosopher-As-Liaison? Lessons from Sustainable Knowledge and American Philosophy,” Dewey Studies 2 (2018): 10-41.
Montgomery, R. A., Elliott, K.C., Hayward, M., Gray, S.M., Millspaugh, J.J., Riley, S. J., Kissui, B.M., Kramer, D.B., Moll, R.J., Mudumba, T., Tans, E.D., Muneza, A.B., Abade, L., Beck, J.M., Hoffmann, C.F., Booher, C.B., and Macdonald, D.W., “Examining Evident Interdisciplinarity among Prides of Lion Researchers,” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6 (2018): 49.
O’Rourke, M., Hall, T. E., Boll, J., Cosens, B., Dietz, T., Engebretson, J., Goralnik, L., Piso, Z., Valles, S., Whyte, K. (2018). Values and Policy in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science: A Dialogue-based Framework for Ethics Education. Online Ethics Center for Engineering. 8/16/2018 OEC. Accessed: Wednesday, November 28, 2018. <www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Values-and-Policy-Environmental-Science-Framework.aspx>
O’Rourke, M., Hall, T. E., Boll, J., Cosens, B., Dietz, T., Engebretson, J., Goralnik, L., Piso, Z., Valles, S., Whyte, K. (2018). Values and responsibility in interdisciplinary environmental science: A dialogue-based curriculum for ethics education – Student kit. Online curriculum available at <http://eese.msu.edu/>.
O’Rourke, M., Hall, T. E., Boll, J., Cosens, B., Dietz, T., Engebretson, J., Goralnik, L., Piso, Z., Valles, S., Whyte, K. (2018). Values and responsibility in interdisciplinary environmental science: A dialogue-based curriculum for ethics education – Instructor kit. Online curriculum available at <http://eese.msu.edu/>.
Piso, Z., Boisvert, R., Heldke, L., McKenna, E., Sandin, P., Van Wieren, G., Thompson, P.B., “A Critical Conversation,” Public Philosophy Journal 2 (2018): https://publications.publicphilosophyjournal.org/record/?issue=6-18-224799&kid=6-15-224800
Thompson, P.B. and Thompson, Kirill O., Eds. Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective: A Transpacific Dialogue. New York and Dordrecht: 2018, Springer.
Thompson, P.B. “The Role of Ethics in Gene Drive Research and Governance,” Journal of Responsible Innovation 5(2018): S159-S179.
Thompson, P. B. “Communicating Science-Based Information about Risk: How Ethics Can Help,” in Ethics and Practice in Science Communication, S. Priest, J. Goodwin and M. F. Dahlstrom, eds. Chicago: 2018, University of Chicago Press, pp. 34-54.
Thompson, P.B. “Sustainable Intensification as a Sociotechnical Imaginary,” in Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System, D. Constance, J. Konefal and M. Hatenaki, Eds. London: 2018, Earthscan, pp. 42-58.
Thompson, P.B. “Norton and Sustainability as Such,” in A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton, S. Sarkar and B.A. Minteer, Eds. New York: 2018, Springer, pp. 7-26.
Thompson, P. B. “Animal Ethics: Probing the Philosophical Issues,” in Advances in Agricultural Animal Welfare, J. Mench, Ed. Cambridge, MA: 2018, Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier, pp. 51-67.
Thompson, P. B. “Plant Risks: Can Risk Assessment Accommodate ‘Cultural Services’,” in Plant Ethics: Concepts and Applications, A. Kallhoff, M. DiPaola and M. Schörgenhumer, Eds. Oxon, UK: 2018, Routledge, pp. 152-163.
Thompson, P.B. “Agrarian Environmental Philosophy in an Inter-cultural Context,” in Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Prespective: A Transpacific Dialogue, P. B. Thompson and K. O. Thompson, Eds., New York and Dordrecht, NL: 2018, Springer, pp. 1-11.
Thompson, P. B. “Food Production,” in The Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics, J. Drydyk and L. Keleher, eds. New York: 2018, Routledge, pp. 226-233.
Thompson, P. B. “GMOs,” in Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Poff D., Michalos A. (eds), Dordrecht, NL: 2018, Springer online at https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-23514-1_343-1
Thompson, P. B. “ABSTRACT: Socio-Technical Imaginaries for Future Food Systems,” in Professionals in Food Chains: Ethics, Roles and Responsibilities, Svenja Springer & Herwig Grimm, eds. Proceedings of EURSAFE 2018. Wageningen, NL: 2018, Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 187-191.
Thompson, P. B. “Worried about Eating GMOs? That’s Not the Real Problem,” leapsmag June 8, 2018, https://leapsmag.com/worried-about-eating-gmos-thats-not-the-real-problem/
Thompson, P. B. “Farming, the Virtues and Agrarian Philosophy,” The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, A. Barnhill, M. Budolfson, and T. Doggett, eds. New York: 2018, Oxford University Press, pp. 53-66.
Valles, S. A. Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Van Wieren, Gretel. Food, Farming, and Religion: Emerging Ethical Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) — https://www.routledge.com/Food-Farming-and-Religion-Emerging-Ethical-Perspectives-1st-Edition/Van-Wieren/p/book/9781138557994
Buckley, J. A. Thompson, P. B. Whyte, K. P. Collingridge’s Dilemma and the Early Ethical Assessment of Emerging Technology: The Case of Nanotechnology Enabled Biosensers. Technology in Society 48: 54-63.
Douglas, H. Why inductive risk requires values in science. Current Controversies in Values and Science, 81-93.
Douglas, H. Science, Values, and Citizens. Oppure Si Mouve: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer, 83-96.
Elliott, K. C., Richards T. Introduction: The Responsible Use of Science in Societal Decision-Making — Part 2. Public Affairs Quarterly 31.
Elliott, K. C., Richards T. Introduction: The Responsible Use of Science in Societal Decision-Making — Part 1. Public Affairs Quarterly 31.
Elliott, K.C., McCright, A.M., Allen, S., and Dietz, T., “Values in Environmental Research: Citizens’ Views of Scientists Who Acknowledge Values,” PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186049. Available online at: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0186049
Elliott, K.C. The Plasticity and Recalcitrance of Wetlands. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve, Alfred Nordmann, and Astrid Schwarz (eds.), Research Objects in Their Technological Setting. London: Routledge.
Elliott, K. C., Settles, I. H., Brassel, S. T., Montgomery, G. M., Cheruvelil, K. S., and Soranno P. A., Honorary Authorship Practices in Environmental Science Teams: Structural and Cultural Factors and Solutions. Accountability in Research 24: 80-98.
Elliott, K. C. The Ethics of Environmental Pollution. S. Gardiner and A. Thompson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press. P. 369-379. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199941339-e-33
Hall, T. E., Engebretson, J., O’Rourke, M., Piso, Z., Whyte, K., Valles, S. The need for social ethics in interdisciplinary environmental science graduate programs: Results from a nation-wide survey in the United States. Science and Engineering Ethics. 23(2): 565–588. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9775-0
O’Rourke, M. Comparing methods for cross-disciplinary research. In R. Frodeman, J. T. Klein, and R. Pacheco (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 276-290.
Pennock, R. T., O’Rourke, M. Developing a scientific virtue-based approach to science ethics training. Science and Engineering Ethics 23(1): 243–262. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9757-2
Reo, N., Whyte, K. P., Ranco, D., Brandt, J., Blackmer, E. and Elliott, B. Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse. American Indian Quarterly 41(3):201-223.
Reo, N., Whyte, K. P., McGregor, D., Smith, M. A., Jenkins, J. F. , Rubio, K. Factors that Support Indigenous Involvement in Multi-actor Environmental Stewardship. AlterNative: an International Journal of Indigenous Peoples: 13(2):58-68.
Steel, D., Gonnerman, C., O’Rourke, M. Scientists’ attitudes on science and values: Case studies and survey methods in philosophy of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. Online first: <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.04.002>.
Thompson, P. B. Philosophy of Technology and the Environment. Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics.
Thompson, P. B. The Ethics of Food Animal Production. Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies.
Thompson, P. B. From Field to Fork and on to Philosophy: Response to Commentators.
Thompson, P. B. Sustainability. The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics.
Thompson, P. B. Resistance to Risky Technology; When are Our environmental Fears Justified?. Philosophy, Technology and the Environment. D. Kaplan, Ed. Cambridge, MA. The MIT Press, pp. 63-80.
Thompson, P. B. And Don’t Forget Food Ethics. The American Journal of Bioethics, 17:9, 22-24, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2017.1353168
Thompson, P. B. The Spirit of the Soil. 2nd Ed. New York and London: Routledge.
Whyte, K. P. Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene. Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. Edited by I. Heise, J. Christensen, and M. Niemann, 206-218. Routledge.
Whyte, K. P. What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples? Keepers of the Green World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability. Edited by M. K. Nelson and D. Shilling. Cambridge University Press.
Whyte, K. P. The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and US Colonialism. RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities: 19(1):154-169.
Whyte, K. P. Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene. English Language Notes 55(1-2): 153-162.
Whyte, K. P. Is it colonial déjà vu? Indigenous peoples and climate injustice. Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledges, Forging new Constellations of Pratice. Edited by J. Adamson, M. Davis and H. Huang, 88-104. Earthscan Publications.
Whyte, K. P. How Similar Are Indigenous North American and Leopoldian Environmental Ethics? Revisiting Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: Emerging Cultures of Sustainability. Edited by T. Trusty and W. Forbes. Stephen F. Austin University Press. Proceedings from National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, Rethinking the Land Ethic: Sustainability and the Humanities.
Douglas, H. Environmental Ethics From the Roots Up: An Introductory Anthology. Cognella Press.
Whyte, K. P. Indigenous Experience, Environmental Justice and Settler Colonialism. Nature and Experience: Phenomenology and the Environment. Edited by B. Bannon, 157-174. Rowman and Littlefield.
Whyte, K. P. Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Renewal and Settler Colonialism. The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics. Edited by M. Rawlinson and C Ward, 354-365. Routledge.
Whyte, K. P., Cuomo C. J. Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous and Feminist Philosophies. Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Edited by S. Gardiner and A. Thompson, 234-247. Oxford University Press.
Chief, K., Meadows, A., Whyte, K. P. Engaging Southwestern Tribes in Sustainable Water Resources Topics and Management. Water 8(8):1-21.
Valles, S. A., Luckie, D. B., Montgomery, G. M., Simmons, E. H., Sweeder, R. D., & Zeleke, A. (2016). Updating the Two Cultures: How structures can promote interdisciplinary cultures. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 48(6), 28-35.
Talley, J. L., J. Schneider, and E. Lindquist. (2016). A simplified approach to stakeholder engagement in natural resource management: the Five-Feature Framework. Ecology and Society 21(4):38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08830-210438
Long, C., O’Rourke, M. Philosophy at home. Inside Higher Education. Views. 12 May.https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/05/12/land-grant-universities-can-reinvigorate-philosophys-focus-societal-challenges/
Piso, Z., Sertler, E., Malavisi, A., Marable, K., Jensen, E., Gonnerman, C., O’Rourke, M. (2016). The production and reinforcement of ignorance in collaborative interdisciplinary research. Social Epistemology 30(5-6): 643–664. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2016.1213328.
Thompson, P. B. The Emergence of Food Ethics. Food Ethics 1:61-74
Thompson, P. B. Machines, Watersheds and Sustainability. The Pluralist 11: 110-116.
Crowley, S., Gonnerman, C., O’Rourke, M. (2016). Cross-disciplinary research as a platform for philosophical research. Journal of the American Philosophical Association2(2): 344–363. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/apa.2016.16.
Elliott, K. C., Cheruvelil, K. S. Montgomery, G. M, and Soranno, P. A. Conceptions of Good Science in Our Data-Rich World. BioScience 66 (2016): 880-889.
Whyte, K. P. Food Justice and Collective Food Relations. Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings. Edited by A. Barnhill, M. Budolfson and T. Doggett, 122-134. Oxford University Press.
Elliott, K. C. Standardized Study Designs, Value Judgments, and Financial Conflicts of Interest. Perspectives on Science 24: 529-551. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/POSC_a_00222
Elliott, K. C. Climate Geoengineering. S. O. Hansson and G. H. Hadorn (eds). The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis: Reasoning about Uncertainty. Springer, pp. 305-324.
Elliott, K. C. Environment. A.J. Angulo (ed.). Miseducation: A History of Ignorance Making in America and Abroad. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press p. 96-119.
Resnik D. B., Elliott, K. C. The Ethical Challenges of Socially Responsible Science. Accountability in Research 23: 31-46.
Elliott, K. C. Values in Environmental Risk Assessments. Cheryl Macpherson (ed.), Climate Change and Health: Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy. New York: Springer, p. 161-167.
Elliott, K. C. Science and Policy. M. Largent and G. Montgomery (eds.). A Companion to the History of American Science. Wiley-Blackwell, p. 468-478.
Norris, P. E., O’Rourke, M., Mayer, A. S., Halvorsen, K. E. (2016). Managing the wicked problem of transdisciplinary team formation in socio-ecological systems. Landscape and Urban Planning. 154: 115–122. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.01.008
Bosque-Pérez, N. A., Klos, P. Z., Force, J. E., Waits, L. P., Cleary, K., Rhoades, P., Galbraith, S. M., Bentley Brymer, A. L., O’Rourke, M., Eigenbrode, S. D., Finegan, B., Wulfhorst, J. D., Sibelet, N., Holbrook, J. D. (2016). A pedagogical model for team-based, problem-focused interdisciplinary doctoral education. BioScience. 66(6): 477–488. http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/04/08/biosci.biw042. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw042.
Thompson, P. B. The Many Meanings of Sustainability: A Competing Paradigms Approach. Pragmatic Sustainability: Dispositions for Critical Adaption. 2nd ed. Steven A. Moore, Ed. Abingdon, Oxon UK and New York: Routledge, pp. 16-28.
Read, E. K., O’Rourke, M., Hong, G. S., Hanson, P. C., Winslow, L. A., Crowley, S., Brewer, C. A., Weathers, K. C. (2016). Building the team for team science. Ecosphere 7(3): e01291.10.1002/ecs2.1291. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1291
Piso, Z., O’Rourke, M., Weather, K. C. (2016). Out of the fog: Catalyzing integrative capacity in interdisciplinary research. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 56: 84–94. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.01.002
Robinson, B., Vasko, S. E., Gonnerman, C., Christen, M., O’Rourke, M., Steel, D. (2016). Human values and the value of humanities in interdisciplinary research. Cogent Arts & Humanities 3(1). Available online. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2015.1123080
O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S., Gonnerman, C. (2016). On the nature of cross-disciplinary integration: A philosophical framework. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 56: 62–70. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.10.003
Werkheiser, I. & Piso, Z. (Eds.) (under contract). Food Justice: Bringing Theory and Practice Together. New York: Springer.
Piso, Z., Werkheiser, I., Noll, S., & Leshko, C. (2016). Sustainability of What? Recognizing the Diverse Values that Sustainable Agriculture Works to Sustain. Environmental Values, 25: in press.
Piso, Z. (2016) Integration, Values, and Well-Ordered Interdisciplinary Science. The Pluralist, 11(1): 49-57.
Whyte, K. P., Brewer J. P., Johnson, J. T. Weaving Indigenous Science, Protocols and Sustainability Science. Sustainability Science 11(1):25-32.
Whyte K. P. Indigenous Environmental Movements and the Function of Governance Institutions. Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Edited by T. Gabrielson, C. Hall, J. Meyer, and D. Scholsberg, 563-580. Oxford University Press.
Whyte, K. P. Indigenous Food Systems, Environmental Justice and Settler Industrial-States. Global Food, Global Justice: Essays on Eating under Globalization. Edited by M. Rawlinson and C. Ward, 143-156. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Thompson, P. B. From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone. New York: Oxford University Press.
Valles, Sean A (2015) Judging Culpability in Dwyer’s Climate Change “Gaia Commission”: A Response to Dwyer. BioéthiqueOnline, 4(22), 1-2.
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Hessels, A., Robinson, B., O’Rourke, M., Begg, Melissa D., Larson, E. (2015). Building interdisciplinary research models through interactive education. Clinical and Translational Science 8(6): 793–799. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cts.12354.
O’Rourke, M. (2015). A Reply to Katri Huutoniemi’s ‘Interdisciplinarity as Academic Accountability’. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4(10): 26–32.
Gonnerman, C., O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S. J., Hall, T. E. (2015). Discovering philosophical assumptions that guide action research: The reflexive Toolbox approach. In H. Bradbury Huang and P. Reason (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Action Research, 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Donovan, S. M., O’Rourke, M., Looney, C. (2015). Your hypothesis or mine? Terminological and conceptual variation across disciplines. SAGE Open. 5(2): 1–13. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244015586237.
Fisher, E., O’Rourke, M., Evans, R., Kennedy, E. B., Gorman, M. E. (2015). Mapping the integrative field: taking stock of socio-technical collaboration. Journal of Responsible Innovation. 2(1): 39–61. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2014.1001671.
O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S., Gonnerman, C. (2015). On the nature of cross-disciplinary integration: A philosophical framework. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Available online. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.10.003 .
Piso, Z. (2015). Integration, Language, and Practice: Wittgenstein and Interdisciplinary Communication. Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 33: 14-38.
David B. Resnik and Kevin C. Elliott, “The Ethical Challenges of Socially Responsible Science,” Accountability in Research, available online; DOI:10.1080/08989621.2014.1002608.
David B. Resnik, Kevin C. Elliott, and Aubrey Miller, “A Framework for Addressing Ethical Issues in Citizen Science,” Environmental Science and Policy 54 (2015): 475-481; DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.008.
Kevin C. Elliott, “Selective Ignorance in Environmental Research,” in M. Groß and Linsey McGoey (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies(London: Routledge, 2015), p. 165-173.
David B. Resnik and Kevin C. Elliott, “Bisphenol A and Risk Management Ethics,” Bioethics 29 (2015): 182-189.
Kevin C. Elliott and David B. Resnik: “Scientific Reproducibility, Human Error, and Public Policy,” BioScience 65 (2015): 5-6.
Patricia A. Soranno, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Kevin C. Elliott, and Georgina Montgomery, “It’s Good to Share: Why Environmental Scientists’ Ethics are Out of Date,” BioScience 65 (2015): 69-73.
O’Rourke, M. A Reply to Katri Huutoniemi’s ‘Interdisciplinarity as Academic Accountability’. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective4(10): 26-32.
Thompson, P. B. From World Hunger to Food Sovereignty: Food Ethics and Human Development. Journal of Global Ethics. 11:336-350
Gonnerman, C., O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S. J., Hall, T. E. Discovering philosophical assumptions that guide action research: The reflexive Toolbox approach. In H. Bradbury Huang and P. Reason (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Action Research, 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Donovan, S. M., O’Rourke, M., Looney, C. Your hypothesis or mine? Terminological and conceptual variation across disciplines. SAGE Open. 5(2): 1-13. DOI: 10.1177/2158244015586237.
Ferkany, M. 2015. Is it Arrogant to Deny Climate Change or is it Arrogant to Say it is Arrogant? Understanding Arrogance and Cultivating Humility in Climate Change Discourse and Education. Environmental Values (24): 705-724.
Normandin, S, & Valles, S.A.. 2015. How a network of conservationists and population control activists created the contemporary US anti-immigration movement. Endeavour. Published Online.
Piso, Z., Werkheiser, I., Noll, S., Leshko, C. Forthcoming. Sustainability of what?
Nelson, M. P., Vucetich, J. A. 2015. Triumph, Not Triage. The Environmental Forum.
Recognizing the diverse values that sustainable agriculture works to sustain. Environmental Values.
Fisher, E., O’Rourke, M., Evans, R., Kennedy, E.B., Gorman, M.E. 2015. Mapping the Integrative Field: Taking Stock of Socio-Technical Collaboration. Journal of Responsible Innovation. Published Online.
Werkheiser I. & Piso, Z. 2015. People Work to Sustain Systems: a Framework for Understanding Sustainability. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
Thompson, P.B. & Noll, S. 2015. Agricultural Ethics. In Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource. Edited by J.B. Holbrook. Macmillan Reference.
Werkheiser, I. Forthcoming. Fighting Nature: An Analysis and Critique of Breed-Specific Flourishing Arguments for Dog Fights. Society & Animals.
Thompson, P.B. & List. 2015. Standards. In Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource. Edited by J.B. Holbrook. Macmillan Reference.
Werkheiser, I. 2015. Community Epistemic Capacities. Social Epistemology.
Wallach, A. D., Bekoff, M., Nelson, M. P., & Ramp, D. 2015. Promoting predators and compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology.
Vucetich, J. A., Bruskotter, J. T., & Nelson, M. P. 2015. Evaluating whether nature’s intrinsic value is an axiom of or anathema to conservation. Conservation Biology.
Newsome, T. M., Ballard, G. A., Crowther, M. S., Dellinger, J. A., Fleming, P. J., Glen, A. S., … & Nimmo, D. G. 2015. Resolving the value of the dingo in ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology.
Valles, S. 2014. Bioethics and the Framing of Climate Change’s Health Risks. Bioethics. Online.
Knowlton, J. L., Halvorsen, K. E., Handler, R. M., O’Rourke, M. 2014. Teaching Interdisciplinary Sustainability Science Teamwork Skills to Graduate Students Using In-person and Web-based Interactions. Sustainability 6: 9428-9440.
Thompson, P.B. 2014. The GMO Quandary and What It Means for Social Philosophy. Social Philosophy Today 30: 7-27.
Climate and Traditional Knowledges Workgroup (includes Whyte). 2014. Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives.
Steel, D. 2014. Philosophy and the Precautionary Principle: Science, Evidence, and Environmental Policy. Cambridge.
Thompson, P.B., Kaplan, D. 2014. The Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer.
Hall, T., O’Rourke, M. 2014. Responding to Communication Challenges in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science. In Heuristics for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Studies: Solution-oriented Approaches to Complex Problems. Edited by K. Huutoniemi & P. Tapio. Routledge.
Elliot, K., Resnik, D. 2014. Science, Policy, and the Transparency of Values. Environmental Health Perspectives. Forthcoming.
Werkheiser, I. & Noll, S. 2014. From Food Justice to a Tool of the Status Quo: Three Sub- Movements within Local Food. Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics. 27: 201-210.
Noll, S. 2014. Liberalism and the Two Directions of the Local Food Movement. Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics. 27: 211-224.
Ferkany, M., A.L. Freed & S.R. Stapleton. 2014 A Review of “Navigating Environmental Attitudes.” Journal of Environmental Education 45. 134-137.
Elliott, K. 2014. Financial Conflicts of Interest and Criteria for Research Credibility. Erkenntnis. Forthcoming.
Elliott, K & D. McKaughan. 2014. Non-Epistemic Values and the Multiple Goals of Science. Philosophy of Science 81: 1-21.
Werkheiser, I. 2014. Food Sovereignty, Health Sovereignty, and Self-Organized Community Viability. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review 15(2/3): 134-146.
Whyte, K.P. 2014. A Concern about Shifting Interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Parties in US Climate Adaptation Contexts . Interdisciplinary Environmental Review. 15 (2/3): 114-133.
Thompson, P.B. Thomas Jefferson’s Land Ethics. In Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy: Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson’s Writings. Edited by M. A. Holowchak, 61-77: Lexington Books.
Whyte, K.P. 2014. Indigenous Women, Climate Change Impacts and Collective Action. Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 29 (3): 599-616.
Resnik, D., Elliot, K. 2014. Environmental Health Ethics. In Bioethics. Edited by Bruce Jennings. Macmillan Library Reference.
Resnik, D., Elliot, K. 2014. Bisphenol A and Risk Management Ethics. Bioethics. Online.
Goralnik, L., & Nelson, M. P. 2014. Field philosophy: Dualism to complexity through the borderland. Dialectical anthropology.
Bruskotter, J. T., Vucetich, J. A., Enzler, S., Treves, A., & Nelson, M. P. 2014. Removing protections for wolves and the future of the US Endangered Species Act (1973). Conservation Letters.
Steel, D. 2013. The Precautionary Principle and the Dilemma Objection. Ethics,Policy & Environment 16: 321-340.
Thompson, P.B. 2013. Ethics and Equity. In Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation. Edited by K. Ludlow S.J. Smyth and J. Falck-Zepeda, 97-107. Springer.
Steel, D. 2013. Precaution and Proportionality: A Reply to Turner. Ethics, Policy & Environment 16: 344-348.
O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S. 2013. Philosophical intervention and cross-disciplinary science: The story of the Toolbox Project. Synthese 190: 1937-1954.
Elliott, K. 2013. Selective Ignorance and Agricultural Research. Science, Technology, and Human Values 38: 328-350.
Beck, D., M. Ivanovic, S. Noll, and I. Werkheiser. 2013. The Ethics of Consuming: Community, Agency, and Participation in Global Food Systems. The Ethics of Consumption: the Citizen, the Market and the Law. Edited by H. Rocklinsberg and P. Sandin, 437-447. Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Van Wieren, G. 2013. Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration. Georgetown University Press.
Elliott, K. 2013. Ethical and Societal Values in Nanotoxicology. In Pursuit of Nanoethics: Transantlantic Reflections on Nanotechnology. Edited by B. Gordijn and A. M. Cutter, 147-166. Springer.
Werkheiser, I. 2013. Domination and Consumption: an Examination of Veganism, Anarchism, and Ecofeminism. Journal of Existential & Phenomenological Theory and Culture 8: 161-184.
Whyte, K.P. 2013. Justice Forward: Tribes, Climate Adaptation and Responsibility. Climatic Change. 120: 517-530.
Ferkany, M. & Whyte K.P. 2013. The Compatibility of Liberalism and Environmental Education. Theory & Research in Education 11: 5-21.
Elliott, K., Willmes, D. 2013. Cognitive Attitudes and Values in Science. Philosophy of Science 80: 807-817.
Sandin, P., Mårald, E., Davison, A., Nye, D.E. & Thompson, P.B. 2013. Book Symposium
on The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics by Paul B. Thompson. Philosophy & Technology 26: 301-320.
O’Rourke, M. 2013. Philosophy as a Theoretical Foundation for I2S. Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems. Edited by G. Bammer. ANU E Press.
McKaughan, D., Elliott, K. 2013. Backtracking and the Ethics of Framing: Lessons from Voles and Vasopressin. Accountability in Research 20: 206-226.
Noll, S. 2013. Broiler Chickens and a Critique of the Epistemic Foundations of Animal Modification. Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 26: 273-280.
Whyte, K.P. 2013. On the Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Collaborative Concept: A Philosophical Study. Ecological Processes 2: 1-12.
Elliott, K. 2013. Douglas on Values: From Indirect Roles to Multiple Goals. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 44: 375-383.
Thompson, P.B. 2013. The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem. Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future. Edited by S. A. Hays, J. S. Robert, C.A. Miller & I. Bennett. Springer.
Williams, C., O’Rourke, M., Eigenbrode, S. D., O’Loughlin, I., Crowley, S. 2013. Using bibliometrics to support the facilitation of cross-disciplinary communication. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology 64: 1768–1779.
Van Wieren, G. & Kellert S.R. 2013. The Origins of Aesthetic and Spiritual Values in Children’s Experience of Nature. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 7: 243-264.
Dotson, K. & Whyte K.P. 2013. Environmental Justice, Unknowability and Unqualified Affectability. Ethics & the Environment 18: 55-79.
Steel, D. 2013. Acceptance, Values, and Inductive Risk. Philosophy of Science 80: 818-828.
Resnik, D., Elliott, K. 2013. Taking Financial Relationships into Account When Assessing Research. Accountability in Research 20: 184-205.
O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S., Eigenbrode, S.D., & Wulfhorst, J.D. (Eds.) 2013. Enhancing Communication and Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research. Sage Publications.
Thompson, P.B. Conceptualizing Fairness in the Context of Competition: Philosophical Sources. The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition. Edited by H. S. James. Springer.
Volz, D., Elliott, K. 2013. Redefining Risk Boundaries in a Shifting Global Chemical Market. Environmental Science and Technology 47: 6069-6070.
Thompson, P.B. 2013. Environmentalism and Posthumanism. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 21: 63-73.
Räikkönen, J., Vucetich, J. A., Vucetich, L. M., Peterson, R. O., & Nelson, M. P. 2013. What the inbred Scandinavian wolf population tells us about the nature of conservation. PLoS One Biology.
Moore, K. D., & Nelson, M. P. 2013. Moving toward a global moral consensus on environmental action. In State of the World 2013. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.
Kabasenche, W.P. O’Rourke, M. and Slater, M.H. (eds). 2012. The Environment: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics. MIT Press.
Van Wieren, G. & Taylor, B. 2012. Blue River Declaration: A New Conversation about an Earth-based Ethic. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 6: 139-142.
Whyte, K.P. 2012. Indigenous Peoples, Solar Radiation Management and Consent. Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management. Edited by C. Preston. Rowman and Littlefield.
McKaughan, D., Elliott, K. 2012. Voles, Vasopressin, and the Ethics of Framing. Science 338 (Dec. 7): 1285.
Weinberg, J., Elliott, K. 2012. Science, Expertise, and Democracy. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 22: 83-90.
Piso, Z., Eatmon, T.J. & Schmidt, E. 2012. Perception is Reality: Factors Influencing the Adoption of Commercial Aquaponics in the Great Lakes Region. Cases on the Diffusion and Adoption of Sustainable Development Practices. Edited by H. Muga and K. Thomas. IGI Global.
Elliott, K., Volz, D. 2012. Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Nanotechnology Oversight: Lessons Learned from Drug and Pesticide Safety Testing. Journal of Nanoparticle Research 14: 664-668.
Sadowski, J., Seager, T., Selinger, E., Spierre, S. & Whyte, K.P. 2012. An Experiential, Game-Theoretic Pedagogy for Sustainability Ethics. Science & Engineering Ethics 19: 1323-39.
Reo, N.J. & Whyte, K.P. 2012. Hunting and Morality as Elements of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Human Ecology 40: 15-27.
Steel, D. & Whyte K.P. 2012. Environmental Justice, Value and Scientific Expertise. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 22: 139-162.
Thompson, P.B. 2012. Synthetic Biology Needs a Synthetic Bioethics. Ethics, Policy and the Environment 15: 1-20.
Volz, D., Elliott, K. 2012. Mitigating Conflicts of Interest in Chemical Safety Testing. Environmental Science and Technology 46: 7937-7938.
Thompson, P. B. 2012. The Agricultural Ethics of Biofuels: Climate Ethics and Mitigation Arguments. Poesis & Praxis: The International Journal of Technology Assessment and Ethics of Science 8: 169-189.
Van Wieren, G. “Children in the River,” in Companions in Wonder: Children and Adults Exploring Nature Together. Edited by S. Kellert and J. Dunlap, 277-288. M.I.T. Press.
Schnapp, L. M., Rotschy, L., Hall, T. E., Crowley, S., O’Rourke, M. 2012. How to talk to strangers: Facilitating knowledge sharing within translational health teams with the Toolbox dialogue method. Translational Behavioral Medicine 2: 469-479.
Whyte, K.P. 2012. Now this! Indigenous Sovereignty, Political Obliviousness and Governance Models for Early Solar Radiation Management Research. Ethics, Policy & Environment 15: 172-187.
Hanisch, S. L., Riley, S. J., & Nelson, M. P. 2012. Promoting wildlife health or fighting wildlife disease: insights from history, philosophy, and science. Wildlife Society.
Nelson, M. P., & Vucetich, J. A. 2012. Sustainability science: Ethical foundations and emerging challenges. Nature Education Knowledge.
Vucetich, J. A., Nelson, M. P., & Peterson, R. O. 2012. Isle Royale wolves be reintroduced? A case study on wilderness management in a changing world. In The George Wright Forum.
Noll, S. 2011. Separating the Threads: Ecofeminism, Globalization, & Third World Contexts. The International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) Conference Proceedings.
Ferkany, M. 2011. Mercy as an Environmental Virtue. Environmental Values 20: 265-283.
Elliott, K., Dickson, D. 2011. Distinguishing Risk and Uncertainty in Risk Assessments of Emerging Technologies. Quantum Engagements: Social Reflections of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies. Edited by Torben Zülsdorf, Christopher Coenen, Arianna Ferrari, Ulrich Fiedeler, Colin Milburn, and Matthias Wienroth. AKA Verlag.
Ferkany, M. 2011. In what sense of ‘respect’ should we respect nature? A comment on David Schmidtz’s ‘Respect for Everything’. Ethics, Policy, and Environment 14: 155-157.
Ferkany, M. & Whyte, K.P. 2011. Environmental Education, Wicked Problems and Virtue. Philosophy of Education 2011: 331-339.
Robinson, K., Elliott, K. 2011. Environmental Aesthetics and Public Environmental Philosophy. Ethics, Policy, & Environment 14: 175-191.
Ferkany, M. & Whyte, K.P. 2012. The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of Environmental Education. Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 25: 419-434.
Steel, D. 2011. Extrapolation, Uncertainty Factors, and the Precautionary Principle. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42:356-364.
Thompson, P.B. & Whyte, K.P. 2011. What Happens to Environmental Philosophy in a Wicked World? Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 25: 485-498.
Van Wieren, G. Review of Kevin O’Brien, An Ethic of Biodiversity: Christianity, Environmental Ethics and the Variety of Life. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 1: 315-317.
Whyte, K.P. 2011. The Recognition Dimensions of Environmental Justice in Indian Country. Environmental Justice 4: 199-205.
E. Selinger, P. Thompson and H. Collins. 2011. Catastrophe Ethics and Activist Speech: Reflections on Moral Norms, Advocacy and Technical Judgment. Metaphilosophy 42: 118-144.
Thompson, P.B. 2010. The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.
Elliott, K. 2010. Geoengineering and the Precautionary Principle. International Journal of Applied Philosophy 24: 237-253.
Thompson, P.B. 2010. Food Aid and the Famine Relief Argument (Brief Return). The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 23: 209-227.
Thompson, P.B. 2010. Animal Ethics and Public Expectations: The North American Outlook. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 37: 13-21.
Whyte, K.P. & Thompson, P.B. 2010. A Role for Ethical Analysis in Social Research on Agrifood and Environmental Standards. Journal of Rural Social Sciences 25: 79-98.
Whyte, K.P. 2010. Why Not Environmental Injustice? Ethics, Place & Environment 13: 333-336.
Campbell, J. K., M. O’Rourke, H. Silverstein, eds. 2010. Action, Ethics, and Responsibility, Topics in Contemporary Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Whyte, K.P. 2010. An Environmental Justice Framework for Indigenous Tourism. Journal of Environmental Philosophy 7: 75-92.
Crowley, S., Eigenbrode, S. D., O’Rourke, M., Wulfhorst, J. D. 2010. Localization in Cross-Disciplinary Research: A Philosophical Approach. Multilingual 114.
Elliott, K. 2010. Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles, Energy Policy, and the Ethics of Expertise. Journal of Applied Philosophy 27: 376-393.