My current research extends across five connected themes:

• The ethics of climate change and sustainability
• New Earth politics
• Planetary health and human well-being
• Technologies of the Anthropocene
• Canadian environmental policy

I am willing to supervise students wanting to work on any of the themes listed under Research Interests. Any students interested in financial assistance in doing so should contact me via email.

Books:

2020. Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past Can Save the Present. Routledge

2019. Canadian Environmental Philosophy, edited with Frank Jankunis and Tyler DesRoches. McGill-Queens University Press

2018. The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction. Routledge

2015. The Anthropocene Project: Virtue in the Age of Climate Change. Oxford University Press

2015. Environmental Ethics for Canadians, second edition Oxford University Press (third edition forthcoming, 2021-2022)

Papers:

2021-2022. 'Connecting Planetary Health and Human Well-Being,' in Environmental Ethics for Canadians (third edition), edited by Byron Williston. Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

2021-2022. 'Governing the Technosphere: The Case of Geoengineering,' in Environmental Ethics for Canadians (third edition), edited by Byron Williston. Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

2019. ‘Ecological Nationalism: Canadian Politics in the Anthropocene,’ in Canadian Environmental Philosophy, edited by Frank Jankunis, Tyler DesRoches and Byron Williston. McGill-Queens University Press, 159-180

2019. ‘Situating Environmental Philosophy in Canada’ (with Tyler DesRoches and Frank Jankunis), in Canadian Environmental Philosophy, edited by Frank Jankunis, Tyler DesRoches and Byron Williston. McGill-Queens University Press, 3-15

2018. ‘A Tapestry of Concealments: Barkskins as Anthropocene Fiction,’ Environmental Philosophy 15(2), 237-254

2018. ‘The Uncanny Anthropocene,’ in The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene, edited by Jon Wittrock and Richard Polt. Rowman and Littlefield International, 135-152

2018. ‘Climate Change Ethics,’ in Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, volume 4, edited by Michael Goldstein and Dominick DellaSala. Elsevier, 45-52

2017. ‘The Question Concerning Geoengineering,’ Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 21(2-3), 199-221.

2017. ‘The Sublime Anthropocene,’ Environmental Philosophy 13(2), 155-174

2015. ‘Epistemic Character and the Ecological Crisis,’ in Environmental Ethics for Canadians (second edition), edited by Byron Williston. Oxford University Press, 247-253

2012. ‘Climate Change and Radical Hope,’ Ethics and the Environment 17(2), 165-186

2011. ‘The Importance of Self-Forgiveness,’ American Philosophical Quarterly 49(1), 67-80

2011. ‘Moral Progress and Canada’s Climate Failure,’ Journal of Global Ethics 7(2), 149-160. Reprinted in Global Ethics on Climate Change: The Planetary Crisis and Philosophical Alternatives, edited by Martin Schönfeld, (London: Routledge), 21-32, 2013