Benjamin Hale
Professor
Environmental Studies

CSTPR, Grandview 1333

Teaching in Spring 2021: PHIL 3140 004

overview

Benjamin Hale is associate professor in the Philosophy Department and theHe is author of the book(MIT Press: 2016), co-editor of the journal, and former officer (VP, 2013-16; President, 2016-2019) of the. From 2019-2020 he was the Interim Director of theBruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilizationand from 2006-2008 he was Director of the Philosophy Department'sCenter for Values and Social Policy. He continues active engagement with the Center for Values and Social Policy, and is particularly instrumental in co-coordinating the annualRocky Mountain Ethics Congresswith Alastair Norcross. His primary area of research interest is environmental and public health ethics, where he focuses mostly onbig picture practical questions that overlap with public policy and economics, though he maintains active interest in a wide range of concerns in applied ethics, normative ethics, and even metaethics. Much of his substantive recent work centers on ethical and environmental concernsrelated to natural disasters, ecological intervention, andemerging technologies.

For more information, see Professor Hale'sand.

Prospective graduate students with a sincere interest in environmental ethics should contact Professor Hale directly atbhale@colorado.eduto discuss options. Where appropriate, they may consider applying to theprogram and working with his lab group, the. There are no restrictions on applying to both programs simultaneously.

selected papers

  • (with Daniel F. Doak, Victoria Bakker, and Bruce Evan Goldstein). Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Jan, 2014.
  • The New York Times, August 12, 2012.
  • "The World that Would Have Been: Moral Hazard Arguments Against Geoengineering," Reflecting Sunlight: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management Ed. Christopher Preston. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2012.
  • “Getting the Bad Out: Remediation Technologies and Respect for Others”The Environment: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics. Eds. William P. Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater. Boston: MIT Press. 2012.*
  • The Monist. 94(1). July 2011.*
  • (with Lisa Dilling), Science, Technology, and Human Values. 2011.*
  • (with Lauren Hale), Social Theory and Health. 7(4). 354-370. 2009.*
  • (with Bill Grundy), Environmental Values. 18(4). 2009.*
  • Benjamin Hale and Lauren Hale in The Philosophy of Public Health, ed. Angus Dawson. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).*
  • Public Affairs Quarterly, 23(1).1-23.Jan 2009.*
  • American Journal of Bioethics, 8(6). 53-54. June 2008.
  • Metaphilosophy, October 2008.*
  • in New Waves in Philosophy of Technology, ed. Evan Selinger, Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, and Søren Riis. (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007).
  • Journal of Medical Ethics, Jan 2007: 33-24.*
  • American Journal of Bioethics, 7(2), 2007.
  • THINK! Philosophy for Everyone. Periodical of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. 16 (2007): 61-70.*
  • Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Volume 19, No. 2, 2006.*
  • Ethics, Place, and the Environment, Volume 8, No. 2, 141-158, 2005.*