Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment
Expertise: Philosophy of Science (especially biology, paleontology, archaeology, the geosciences, & evolutionary theory), & Environmental Philosophy
Achievements:
- Nancy Batson Nisbet Rash Research Award (2017)
- Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Philosophy of Science, University of Calgary, Canada (2017)
- My most recent book is Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
- I published a paper this year with a student, Junhyung Han ’23, on “Living Fossils and Conservation Values.” It is available open access in Frontiers in Earth Sciences.
