ABOUT
Welcome. I research, teach, and write about the social and ethical dimensions of environmental and technological change.
In 2018 I earned my Ph.D. in Environmental Philosophy from Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). My Ph.D. dissertation, "Not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead": Rewilding and the cultural landscape, examined rewilding (a recent conservation strategy that emphasizes wilderness preservation by "self-willed," natural processes and reduced human management) and the challenges it poses to historic, cultural landscapes through the concept of place and placemaking. This was part of a larger, VIDI-funded project that attempted to bring insights from hermeneutic philosophy into environmental ethics to address conflicts in environmental meanings.
More recently, I worked as a lecturer in the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft in the Netherlands, teaching ethics to engineering students at the undergraduate and masters levels. In Nijmegen, I volunteer as an English teacher.
My research interests include environmental philosophy and humanities, philosophy of technology, climate ethics, and feminist philosophy. As part of the multi-year research project Being Human in the Age of Humans: Perspectives from Religion & Ethics, I'm pursing a small spinoff of my Ph.D. research that considers narratives about de-extinction in the Anthropocene. Otherwise I'm pivoting my research on philosophical notions of place to focus on home, belonging, and place-attachment in response to changing climates, environments, and the need for adaptation in the face of climate change. Along with a colleague, I'm working on a podcast where we have conversations with other environmental philosophers about their recent work. Stay tuned, and email if you'd like to be involved.
I hold an M.A. in Environmental Philosophy from the University of Montana (2013), where I studied the ethics of climate engineering and climate change and where my work was funded through a National Science Foundation grant. I have undergraduate degrees in Philosophy (BA) and Biology (BS) from the University of Maine (2010). Outside of academia, I have professional experience as a copy editor, a biological field researcher, a website manager, and a project coordinator. I live in Nijmegen (NL) with my partner, James Meakin, and I am originally from Portland, Maine (USA).
I can be reached at a.r.gammon [at] protonmail.com. My academia.edu page is here.
In 2018 I earned my Ph.D. in Environmental Philosophy from Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). My Ph.D. dissertation, "Not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead": Rewilding and the cultural landscape, examined rewilding (a recent conservation strategy that emphasizes wilderness preservation by "self-willed," natural processes and reduced human management) and the challenges it poses to historic, cultural landscapes through the concept of place and placemaking. This was part of a larger, VIDI-funded project that attempted to bring insights from hermeneutic philosophy into environmental ethics to address conflicts in environmental meanings.
More recently, I worked as a lecturer in the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft in the Netherlands, teaching ethics to engineering students at the undergraduate and masters levels. In Nijmegen, I volunteer as an English teacher.
My research interests include environmental philosophy and humanities, philosophy of technology, climate ethics, and feminist philosophy. As part of the multi-year research project Being Human in the Age of Humans: Perspectives from Religion & Ethics, I'm pursing a small spinoff of my Ph.D. research that considers narratives about de-extinction in the Anthropocene. Otherwise I'm pivoting my research on philosophical notions of place to focus on home, belonging, and place-attachment in response to changing climates, environments, and the need for adaptation in the face of climate change. Along with a colleague, I'm working on a podcast where we have conversations with other environmental philosophers about their recent work. Stay tuned, and email if you'd like to be involved.
I hold an M.A. in Environmental Philosophy from the University of Montana (2013), where I studied the ethics of climate engineering and climate change and where my work was funded through a National Science Foundation grant. I have undergraduate degrees in Philosophy (BA) and Biology (BS) from the University of Maine (2010). Outside of academia, I have professional experience as a copy editor, a biological field researcher, a website manager, and a project coordinator. I live in Nijmegen (NL) with my partner, James Meakin, and I am originally from Portland, Maine (USA).
I can be reached at a.r.gammon [at] protonmail.com. My academia.edu page is here.
buildings on the waalbandijk, Nijmegen, NL