Education:
Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College, l976
Dissertation: "The Rights of Nonhuman Beings: A Whiteheadian Study" (
c. University Microfilms)
Publications:
Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence, Third Edition,
ed. Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler (New York: McGraw-Hill,
2004).
The Animal Ethics Reader, ed. Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G.
Botzler (London: Routledge, 2003).
Articles:
- "Advanced Technology and Process Philosophy," Process Studies 31.1
(2002): 101-129
- "Making Justice Inclusive: Four Key Concepts", University of Melbourne,
1997, at http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/envjust/
- "Hegel and Kierkegaard: A Feminist Reading," in Hegel and Hermeneutics:
Essays in Honor of George L. Kline, ed. Shaun Gallagher (New York: Suny
Press, l997)
- "Souls in Process: A Theoretical Inquiry into Animal Psi," in Critical
Reflections on the Paranormal, ed. M. Stoeber and H. Meynell (New York:
Suny Press, l996)
- "An Outline of a Theology of Difference," in Religious Experience
and Ecological Responsibility, ed. Donald A. Crosby and Charley D. Hardwick
(New York: Peter Lang, l996)
- "In Praise of Pigs," (poem), Between the Species 8.l (l992):36
- "What Process Philosophy Can Contribute to the Land Ethic and Deep
Ecology," The Trumpeter 9.l (Winter l99l): 29-34
- "Nonhuman Experience: A Whiteheadian Analysis," Process Studies l8.l
(l989): l-l8
- "Whitehead's Metaphysical System as a Foundation for Environmental
Ethics," Environmental Ethics 8.3 (l986): 24l-59
- "Ethical Considerations in Research on Wildlife Diseases," co-authored
with Prof. Rick Botzler, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 2l.3 (l985): 34l-45
Critical Book Reviews:
- "The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals,"
by Paul Waldau (with Prof. Mary Bockover). Anthrozoos 15.3 (2002): 270-272.
- "Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World," by
Anna L. Peterson, Journal of Political Ecology (forthcoming)
- "Utopias, Dophins, and Computers; Problems of Philosophy Plumbing,"
by Mary Midgley, Essays in Philosophy 3.2 (2002). <http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/>
- "Being and Value," Frederick Ferre in Environmental Ethics (winter
1999): 425-428.
- "Philosophical Interactions with Parapsychology: The Major Writings
of H.H. Price on Parapsychology and Survival," ed. Frank B. Dilley,
The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 91 (1997):
237-240.
- "The Greening of Ethics," by Richard Sylvan and David Bennett, in
Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy (1996)
- "Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy," Journal of the
American Society for Psychical Research 88.2 (l995): l85-7.
- "Nihilism Incorporated: European Civilization and Environmental Destruction,"
and "Beyond European Civilizations: Marxism, Process Philosophy and
the Environment," by Aaran Gare, Environmental Values 4.3 (l995): 278-80
- "Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson,
Whitehead, and Hartshorne," American Journal of Theology and Philosophy
l5.3 (l994): 332-37
- "Individuality and Cooperative Action," Process Studies 20.4 (l99l):
248-52
- "The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship," co-authorized
with Gael Hodgkins, Humboldt Journal of Social Relations l0.2 (l983):
258-60
Online Papers:
University Service:
- Chair, College Personnel Committee for Promotion and Tenure and Personnel
Committee for Reappointment (2003-4)
- Faculty Development Committee, 1999-2001
- Sabbatical Leave Committee, 2000-2002
- Chair, University Personnel Committee, l994-95; l993-94;member l992-93
- Developed Major in Environmental Science, l99l-93 (with Prof. Peter
Lehman)
- Developed Minor in Peace and Conflict Studies (l990)
- Developed Minor in Environmental Ethics, l988
- Educational Policies Committee, 2000-
- Faculty Development Committee, 1999-
- University Curriculum Committee, 1998-2000
Courses taught: (a selection)
- History of Philosophy (all periods)
- Seminars in Kant, Hegel, Whitehead, Jung, Kierkegaard,Simone de Beauvoir
- Environmental Ethics
- Philosophy of Religion
- Existentialism
- Philosophy of Sex and Love
- Feminist Theory
- Theory of Knowledge
- Ethics
- Ecofeminism
- Postmodern Philosophies
- Animal Ethics
Philosophic interests:
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Environmental ethics, animal ethics, environmental theology, feminist
theory, postmodernism; animal consciousness; theories of paranormal
experience; Jungian theory
Current Projects:
- "The Importance of Partial Success," to be presented at
the Metaphysical Society of America Annual Meeting, University of Georgia,
Athens, Ga., March 2004
- Editor, Special Edition on Animal Ethics, Essays in Philosophy (General
Editor Michael Goodman). June 2004
Hobbies:
Professional Memberships:
- American Philosophical Association
- Society for Women in Philosophy
- Metaphysical Society of America
- International Society for Environmental Ethics
- Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought
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