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Kenneth Shockley                                              

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis)

111 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: (716) 645-0145
Fax: (716) 645-6139
Email: kes25@buffalo.edu
Website: http://www.buffalo.edu/~kes25/

AOC:

Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy.

CRI:

Indirect consequentialism, the normative requirements associated with group membership, the interdependence of environmental values and environmental policy, collective constitution, agency, and responsibility.

Sample Publications

  • “Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change,” in Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, eds., The Virtues of the Future: Climate Change and The Challenge of Restoring Humanity, MIT Press, (forthcoming, 2012).
  • “Environmental Policy With Integrity,” Environmental Values 18 (2009): 177-99.
  • “On That Peculiar Practice of Promising,” Philosophical Studies 140.3 (2008): 385-399.
  • “Programming Collective Responsibility,” Journal of Social Philosophy 38.3 (2007): 442-455.

Prof. Shockley is the UB Faculty Advisor for the Fulbright Program http://www.fulbright.buffalo.edu