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Clare Palmer

 

Education

D Phil, The Queen’s College, Oxford (1993)
BA Hons (First Class), Trinity College, Oxford (1988)

Previous Appointments Held

Associate Professor, Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, USA (2004-2010)

Senior Lecturer, (Equivalent Associate Professor) Philosophy, Lancaster University, UK (2001 - 2004)

Lecturer, Religious Studies, University of Stirling, UK (1998 - 2001)

Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Western Australia (1997 - 1998)

Lecturer,Environmental Studies, University of Greenwich, UK (1993 - 1997)

Gifford Research Fellow, Philosophy, Glasgow  University (1992 - 1993)

Areas of Interest

Environmental philosophy
Applied philosophy
Ethics
Environmental studies (humanities and social sciences)

Biographical Information

Clare Palmer has held appointments in universities in the UK, Australia and the USA. She has published widely on environmental philosophy, animal ethics, and environment and religion. She has written three single-authored books, most recently Animal Ethics in Context (New York: Columbia University Press 2010) and has edited or co-edited a number of collections including Killing Animals, co-edited with the Animal Studies Group (Champaign- Urbana: Illinois University Press 2006) and the 5-volume collection Environmental Philosophy, co-edited with J.Baird Callicott (London: Routledge 2005). She was the founding editor of the journal Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion (Brill Academic Press) and held the position of President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics from 2007-2010.