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overview

Benjamin Hale is Professor in the Philosophy Department and the  He 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 the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization and from 2006-2008 he was Director of the Philosophy Department's Center 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 annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress with Alastair Norcross. His primary area of research interest is environmental and public health ethics, where he focuses mostly on big 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 concerns related to natural disasters, ecological intervention, and emerging technologies.

For more information, see Professor Hale's  and .

Prospective graduate students with a sincere interest in environmental ethics should contact Professor Hale directly at bhale@colorado.edu to discuss options. Where appropriate, they may consider applying to the  program 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.
• Reflecting Sunlight: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management Ed. Christopher Preston. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2012.
• 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.*