David Macauley

Professional Bio

Areas of Specialization

• Environmental Ethics and Environmental Philosophy
• Continental Philosophy
• Political Theory
• Ethics
• Philosophy of Technology

Recent Courses

• Environmental Philosophy
• Symbolic Logic
• Asian Philosophy
• Philosophy of Technology
• American Environmentalism (American Studies)
• Basic Problems of Philosophy

Recent Publications

• Walking the Earth: Philosophical Foot Notes (Bloomington, IN: Univ. of Indiana Press, forthcoming, 2005).
• Bewildering Order: Earth, Water, Air and Fire as Elemental Philosophy and Environmental Ideas (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, forthcoming, 2004).
• Editor, Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology (NY: Guilford Press).
• “Walking the Urban Environment” in Gary Backhaus and John Murungi, eds. Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield).
• “Be-wildering Order: On Finding a Home for Domestication and the Domesticated Other” in The Ecological Community: Environmental Challenges for Philosophy, Politics and Morality, ed. Roger Gottlieb (NY: Routledge,).
• “Walking the Elemental Earth: Phenomenological and Literary Foot Notes,” Annalecta Husserliana, Vol. 71.
• “On Critical Theory and Nature,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol. 9, No. 3.
• “Evolution and Revolution: The Ecological Anarchism of Bookchin and Kropotkin" in Social Ecology After Bookchin, ed. Andrew Light (NY: Guilford Publications).
• "Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Place" in Minding Nature, ed. David Macauley (NY: Guilford Publications).
• "Walking the City," Capitalism, Nature Socialism: A Journal of Ecology, Vol. 11, No. 4.
• Review of Edward Casey, The Fate of Place and Getting Back into Place in Environmental Ethics, Vol. 22.
• "Greening Philosophy and Democratizing Ecology" in Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology, ed. David Macauley (New York: Guilford Press).
• "A Few Foot Notes on Walking," The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy (Vol. 10:1). "Out of Place and Outer Space: Hannah Arendt on Earth Alienation," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (Vol. 3:4).
• "Echoes to Eco-feminism," APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (Vol. 92).
• "On Women, Animals and Nature," APA Newsletter on Feminism & Philosophy(Vol. 90:3).
• "Political Animals" Between The Species: A Journal of Ethics, III, 2 to IV, 2, serialized in 5 parts.
• "The Animal Rights Movement: Pythagoras' Heirs or the New Luddites of the Left?," William and Mary Magazine.
• Interview with Jeremy Rifkin on biotechnology in The Animals' Agenda.
• Interview with Peter Singer on animal ethics in The Animals' Agenda.
• Poetry in The William and Mary Review, Carver, and Left Curve.

Current Projects

• Interdisciplinary book on walking (human motility) as it relates to philosophy, the environment, politics, the body and aesthetics.
• Biomimicry and the technological imitation of natural processes.
• Nietzsche's conception of the body
• Continental Philosophy and the Environment. edited collection (with Melissa Clarke) on the environment and nature within the tradition of Continental Philosophy from Kant to Derrida.