PHILIP J. CAFARO
Contact Information:
Phone: 970.491.6315
Fax: 970.491.4900
Email: cafaro@lamar.colostate.edu
Address:
Office: 226 Eddy Hall,
Colorado State
University,
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1781
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. 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. “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.
