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Center Director Robert Frodeman is also Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas. He specializes in environmental philosophy, science policy, and questions concerning interdisciplinarity. Holder of advanced degrees in philosophy (a PhD, from Penn State) and geology (a masters from the University of Colorado), he has held positions at the University of Texas, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Colorado. He served as a consultant for the US Geological Survey for eight years, was the 2001-2002 Hennebach Professor of the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines, and was an ESRC Fellow at Lancaster University in England in the spring of 2005. Frodeman is Editor in Chief of the Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity as well as co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Enviromental Ethics & Philosophy.

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Related Resources:

• University of North Texas Faculty Profile Page
• UNT Department of Philosophy & Religion Studies Page
• Wikipedia Article
• Representative Works
  • Philosophy of Science & Technology
    • Broader Impacts 2: Seeing--and Seizing--the Opportunity
    • The Geosciences, Climage Change, & the Virtues of Ignorance
    • The Significance of Geologic Time: Cultural, Educational, & Economic Frameworks
    • Peer Assessment & the Ex Ante Assessment of Societal Impacts
  • Field Philosophy
    • A New Philosophy for the 21st Century
    • Experiments in Field Philosophy
  • Environmental Philosophy
  • Introducing a Policy Turn in Environmental Philosophy
  • Philosophy Unbound: Environmental Ethics at the End of the Earth
  • Philosophy of Policy
    • Bieberians at the Gates
    • Philosophy in the Age of Neo-Liberalism
    • NSF's Struggle to Articulate Societal Relevance
    • Intellectual Merit & Broader Impacts
    • Humanities for Policy & a Policy for the Humanities
  • Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity
    • Philosophy De-Disciplined
    • Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity
    • De-Disciplining the Humanities