I’ve taught courses in environmental ethics and environmental aesthetics, animals and society, ethics, applied ethics, aesthetics and the arts, Kant, and introduction to philosophy, and seminars on subjects such as 18th c. aesthetic theory, imagination, Schopenhauer, aesthetics and politics, and philosophy of film. I’ve also enjoyed working with colleagues to teach courses in the field: Philosophy of Conservation on the Isle of Rum in Scotland and human geography field courses in North Uist and St. Kilda, Scotland, and in Iceland.

I established a multidisciplinary masters programme, MSc Environment, Culture, and Society at the University of Edinburgh in 2007 and served as its Programme Director for ten years. I’ve supervised masters and PhD students on a range of topics in environmental philosophy, aesthetics, human geography, Kant, and applied ethics.

Current PhD students

I serve on PhD committees for Corinne Presinger (Texas A&M), Tinna Gunnarsdóttir  (Iceland University of the Arts), Stephanie Schuster (University of Basel), and Brandon Scott (MIT).

Reynisfjara Beach, Iceland