PHILIP J. CAFARO

Cafaro

Contact Information:

Phone: 970.491.2061
Fax: 970.491.4900
Email: philip.cafaro@colostate.edu

Address:
Office: 226 Eddy Hall,
Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1781

Web Address:
philipcafaro.com

Education:
Ph.D., Boston University, 1997

Research and selected papers:

A former ranger with the U.S. National Park Service, Cafaro's research interests center in environmental ethics, virtue ethics, American philosophy and wild lands preservation. He is the author of Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue ( 2004) and co-editor of the recent anthology Environmental Virtue Ethics (2005). Cafaro has published articles in Environmental Ethics, the Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophy Today and BioScience, and in the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity and the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History.

Cafaro, P. "Transcental Virtue," forthcoming in the upcoming "Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism."

--------. "Patriotism as an Environmental Virtue," upcoming in 2010 from "Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics."

Gambrel, J. and Cafaro. P. 2010. “The Virtue of Simplicity.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics: in press.

Cafaro, P. and Staples, W. 2009. “The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States.” Environmental Ethics 31: 3-28.

Cafaro, P. 2005. "Gluttony, Arrogance, Greed and Apathy: An Exploration of Environmental Vice." In R. Sandler and P. Cafaro (eds.), Environmental Virtue Ethics. (Rowman and Littlefield): 135-58.


-------. 2002. “Thoreau's Environmental Ethics in Walden.” The Concord Saunterer (Journal of the Thoreau Society) 10: 17-63.

-------. 2002. “Rachel Carson's Environmental Ethics.” Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 6: 58-80.


--------. 2001. “Economic Consumption, Pleasure and the Good Life.” Journal of Social Philosophy 32: 471-486.

--------. 2001. “The Naturalist's Virtues.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 8/2: 85-99.


-------. 2001. "Thoreau, Leopold and Carson: Toward an Environmental Virtue Ethics." Environmental Ethics 23: 3-17.


-------. 2001. “For a Grounded Conception of Wilderness and More Wilderness on the Ground.” Ethics and the Environment 6: 1-17.






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