Clare Palmer

Wilson Hall, Rm. 108 / 935-7148

Clare works in ethics, in particular in environmental ethics. She is the author of Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking (OUP 1998) and Environmental Ethics (ABC-Clio 1998), and the forthcoming Animal Ethics in context (in press, Columbia University Press). She has edited or co-edited a number of books, including Animal Rights in the Ashgate International library of Rights collection (Ashgate 2008); a co-edited 5-volume collection, Environmental Philosophy with J. Baird Callicott (Routledge, 2005); a collection on Teaching Environmental Ethics (Brill 2006) and a
collection co-edited with the Animal Studies Group, Killing Animals (Illinois University Press, 2006). She was associate editor of the 2 volume encyclopedia Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Macmillan,2008). She edited the journal Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion Brill Academic Press) for ten years, and is President of the International Society of Environmental Ethics from 2007-2010. Prior to coming to Washington University, she worked at a number of institutions including Lancaster University, UK, Stirling University, UK and the University of Western Australia. She studied at Oxford University both as an undergraduate at Trinity College, where she gained a First Class degree in Theology, and as a postgraduate at Wolfson and at Queen's College, where she was awarded a D.Phil. She teaches in Ethics and Environmental ethics, and also courses in Environmental Studies.