# overview
My research and teaching interests span aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental ethics, eighteenth-century philosophy, environmental humanities, and animal studies. My philosophical approach moves between the historical and contemporary, as I seek to interpret past thinking about nature, environment, and the arts for a contemporary context. In current research, I explore interactions between aesthetics and ethics, specifically through other-regarding attitudes toward the natural world, e.g., forms of aesthetic attention, humility, wonder, natural beauty, and the sublime. In earlier work, I focused on the place of imagination, perception, and emotion in aesthetic experience of environment.

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Middlebury College - (Middlebury (village), Vermont, United States)

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University of Edinburgh - (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

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University of Glasgow - (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

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Aesthetic regard for nature in environmental and land art

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Landscape and value in the work of Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991)

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Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making

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Aesthetics in Practice: Valuing the Natural World

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Introduction to Environmental and Land Art: A Special Issue of Ethics, Place and Environment

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What are shared and social values of ecosystems?

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Reassessing Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in the Kantian Sublime

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Walking the talk: Philosophy of conservation on the Isle of Rum

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Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

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Animals in environmental art: relationship and aesthetic regard

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Human-Environment Relations Transformative Values in Theory and Practice

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Between Nature and Culture The Aesthetics of Modified Environments

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The Aesthetics of Agricultural Landscapes and the Relationship between Humans and Nature

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The sublime, ugliness and "Terrible beauty" in Icelandic landscapes

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Aesthetic Regard for Nature in Environmental and Land Art

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Aesthetic Value, Ethics and Climate Change

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Adam Smith's Sympathetic Imagination and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Environment

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John Muir's Environmental Aesthetics: Interweaving the Aesthetic, Religious, and Scientific

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Aesthetic and spiritual values of ecosystems: Recognising the ontological and axiological plurality of cultural ecosystem services

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Aesthetics, Humility, and Wonder: Other-Regarding Ways of Relating to Environment

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Humans in the Land The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Cultural Landscape

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Texas A&M University; Department of Philosophy; 4237 TAMU