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Biography
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Director of the Program on Ethics. His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics.
Steve is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), and co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016) and Dialogues on Climate Justice (Routledge, 2023). He is also the editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005) and the Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (Oxford, in press), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford, 2016), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010) and The Ethics of “Geoengineering” the Global Climate: Justice, Legitimacy and Governance (Routledge, 2021).
Steve has published more than fifty articles and book chapters, including in leading journals such as: Climatic Change; Environmental Ethics; Environmental Values; Ethics; Ethics & International Affairs; Ethics, Policy & the Environment; Journal of Political Philosophy; Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy; and Philosophy and Public Affairs.
In 2021, he presented the Academy Lecture for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Alan Saunders Lecture in Public Ethics at the Australasian Association for Philosophy, which was broadcast nationally by Australian Public Radio.
Research
Selected Research
- Stephen M. Gardiner and Arthur R. Obst, Dialogues on Climate Justice (Routledge, 2023)
- Stephen Gardiner, Catriona McKinnon and Augustin Fragniere, eds. The Ethics of "Geoengineering" the Global Climate: Justice, Legitimacy and Governance (Routledge, 2020)
- Stephen M. Gardiner. 2019. ‘Motivating a Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations’, Environmental Ethics 41, 199-220.
- Gardiner, Stephen M., and Augustin Fragniere. "The Tollgate Principles for the Governance of Geoengineering: Moving Beyond the Oxford Principles to an Ethically More Robust Approach." Ethics, Policy and the Environment 21:2 (2018): 143-174.
- Gardiner, Stephen M. "Climate Ethics in a Dark and Dangerous Time." Ethics 127 (2017): 430-465.
- Gardiner, Stephen M. and Allen Thompson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Gardiner, Stephen M. and David A. Weisbach. Debating Climate Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Gardiner, Stephen M. “A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention focused on Future Generations." Ethics and International Affairs 28.3 (2014): 299-315.
- Gardiner, Stephen M. A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013 (paperback).
- Gardiner, Stephen, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson and Henry Shue, eds. Climate Ethics: Essential Readings. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.