Climate Ethics after Bali
Andrew Light
Thursday, 23 Oct 2008 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Andrew Light is an associate professor of philosophy and public affairs and an adjunct professor of geography and public health genetics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also a faculty fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Texas at Austin, an affiliate faculty member of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College, and a studio fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Light has edited or coedited sixteen publications in the fields of environmental ethics and the philosophy of technology. He is coauthor of the recently published Environment and Values, an historical and community-based approach to environmental valuation. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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