Faculty

Nancy Tuana

DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy
Nancy Tuana Directorship in the Rock Ethics Institute

Nancy Tuana Education:
  • Ph.D., University of California
Areas of Specialization:
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Science Studies with an emphasis on epistemological and ethical issues
  • Moral Literacy
  • Coupled Epistemic-Ethical Issues in Scientific Practice, with particular emphasis on climate science
  • Approaches to Intersectionality
Administrative Position:
Recent and Forthcoming Articles:
  • Gendering Climate Knowledge for Justice: Catalyzing a New Research Agenda, Margaret Alston and Kerri Whittenbury, Eds.  Gender and Climate Change, forthcoming.
  • Embedding Ethics in the Practices of Science: Bringing Humanities to the Sciences, Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.
  • Tuana, Nancy, Ryan Sriver, Toby Svoboda, Roman Olson, Peter J. Irvine, Jacob Haqq-Misra, and Klaus Keller. (2012). Towards Integrated Ethical and Scientific Analysis of Geoengineering: A Research Agenda, Ethics, Policy and Environment Vol. 15, No. 2, 1–22.
  • Goes, Marlos, Nancy Tuana, and Klaus Keller. (2011). The Economics (or lack thereof) of Aerosol Geoengineering, Climatic Change, Change, 109, 3: 719-744.
  • Svoboda, Toby, Marlos Goes, Klaus Keller, and Nancy Tuana. (2011). Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering: The Question of Justice, Public Affairs Quarterly, 25, 3: 157-180.
  • Schienke, E. W., Baum, S., Tuana, N., Davis, K.J., Keller, K. (2011). Intrinsic Ethics Regarding Integrated Assessment Models for Climate Management, Science and Engineering Ethics 17, 3:503-23.
  • Tuana, N. (2010).  Leading with Ethics, Aiming for Policy, Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 177, 3: 471-492.
  • Tuana, N. (2010).  Climate Change and Human Rights, Handbook of Human Rights, Chapter 33,Routledge, 2010.
  • Tuana, N. (2010).  Engendering Philosophy of Science, in Philosophy of Science: Five Questions, VIP Press.
  • The Role of the NSF Broader Impacts Criteria on Research Ethics Pedagogy, with E. Schienke, D. Brown, K. Davis, K. Keller, J. Shortle, and M. Stickler, Social Epistemology A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy 23, 3-4, 2009: 317-336.
  • Conceptualizing Moral Literacy, Journal of Educational Administration, Volume 45, Number 4, 2007, pp. 364-378
  • Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina, Material Feminisms, ed. Susan Hekman and Stacy Alaimo, Duke University Press, 2007.
  • The Speculum of Ignorance  Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Special issue on Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance, 2006, 21.3 (2006) 1-19.

Selected Books and Anthologies

  • Gender and Climate Change, with Carolyn Sachs and Petra Tschakert, Zed Books, forthcoming.
  • Global Climate Change and Human Rights, Penn State Press, forthcoming.
  • Leading Learning with Moral Purpose, with Michael Bezzina, forthcoming.
  • Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, SUNY Series on Philosophy and Race, (SUNY Press, 2007). Co-edited with Shannon Sullivan.
  • Revealing Male Bodies, co-editor with William Cowling, Maurice Hamington, Greg Johnson, and Terrance MacMullan, Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Engendering Rationalities, co-editor with Sandra Morgan, SUNY Press, 2001.

Recent Grants

  • NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering, Tuana, PI, Awarded, 08/15/2011-07/31/2014
    Graduate Pedagogy for Ethical Dimensions of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Research
  • NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering, Tuana, PI, Awarded 2006-2008
    Integrating Ethics into Graduate Training in the Environmental Sciences
  • American Philosophical Association, Tuana, Co-PI, Awarded, 2006-2012
    Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute
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