Professor Stephen Gardiner

Visiting Fellow from 1 April 2012 to 30 June 2012.

Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle.  His main areas of interest are ethical theory, political philosophy and environmental ethics.  His recent work has focused on the ethical issues surrounding global environmental problems, such as climate change, and particularly on our responsibilities to future generations.  He has also published on theoretical virtue ethics, especially in connection with Aristotle, and on Socrates’ political philosophy. 

 Gardiner is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm: the Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (Oxford, 2011), the coordinating co-editor of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010), and the editor of Virtue Ethics: Old and New (Cornell, 2005).  His articles have appeared in journals such as Ethics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and Philosophy and Public Affairs.  He has also held visiting fellowships at the University of Melbourne (2002), Princeton University (2004-5), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2011), and Oxford University (2012).  He is currently working on the ethics of geoengineering (the intentional manipulation of the Earth’s climate system), and on intergenerational ethics more generally.