Professor
ACM-Mellon Leadership Fellow in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty

Philosophy

Marion Hourdequin (Professor, Philosophy Department) specializes in environmental philosophy. Her research and teaching interests also include ethics, philosophy of science, and comparative philosophy. Prof. Hourdequin's current research focuses on climate justice, intergenerational ethics, the social and ethical dimensions of solar geoengineering, and relational approaches to environmental ethics. She is the author of Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice (Bloomsbury, 2^nd edition 2024) and editor, with David Havlick, of Restoring Layered Landscapes (Oxford, 2016). Prof. Hourdequin is currently finishing a third book, co-authored with Dan Shahar, entitled, What Should Individuals Do About Climate Change? A Debate (Routledge). Professor Hourdequin is President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) and an Associate Editor for Environmental Ethics, and she served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences study committee that produced the consensus report, Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance (2021).

Representative Publications

2024. “Intergenerational Ethics and Sustainability: A Confucian Relational Perspective,” in Intercultural Philosophy and Environmental Justice Between Generations: Indigenous, African, Asian, and Western Perspectives, edited by Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch, and Mario Wenning, Cambridge University Press.

2022. “Intergenerational Ethics, Moral Ambivalence, and Climate Change.” The Harvard Review of Philosophy 29: 69-88.

2021. “Environmental Ethics,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, State of the Question series. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.coloradocollege.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1111/sjp.12436.

"Confucianism and Intergenerational Justice" (with David B. Wong), Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics, edited by Stephen Gardiner (Oxford University Press, 2021).

"Ethics, Adaptation, and the Anthropocene," Ethics, Policy, & Environment (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2021.1904530.

"Taking Stock of the Rights of Nature" (with J. Michael Angstadt) in Rights of Nature: A Re-Examination, edited by Daniel P. Corrigan and Markku Oksanen. (Routledge, 2021).

"Geoengineering Justice: The Role of Recognition," Science, Technology, & Human Values 44 no. 3 (2019): 448-477. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918802893.

"Climate Engineering and the 'Global Poor': What Does Justice Require?", Ethics, Policy, & Environment 21 no. 3 (2018): 270-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2018.1562525.

"Justice, Recognition, and Climate Geoengineering" in Climate Justice and Geoengineering, edited by Christopher Preston (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016).

"The Ethics of Ecosystem Management," in Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, edited by Allen Thompson and Stephen Gardiner (Oxford University Press, 2016).

"Restoration and Authenticity Revisited," Environmental Ethics 35 no 1. (2013): 79-93.

"Empathy, Shared Intentionality, and Motivation by Moral Reasons," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 15 no. 3 (2012): 403-419.

"Geoengineering, Solidarity, and Moral Risk," in Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management, Christopher Preston, ed. (Lexington Books, 2012).

"Ecological Restoration in Context: Ethics and the Naturalization of Former Military Lands" (with David Havlick) Ethics, Place, and Environment 14 no. 1 (2011): 69-89.

"Climate, Collective Action, and Individual Ethical Obligations," Environmental Values 19 no. 4 (2010): 443-464.

"Engagement, Withdrawal, and Social Reform: Confucian and Contemporary Perspectives," Philosophy East & West 60 no. 3 (2010): 369-390.

"A Relational Approach to Environmental Ethics," with David Wong, Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (2005): 19-33.

Academia.edu profile

Regular Classes

PH 140 Ethics

PH 203 Classical Chinese Philosophy

PH 228 Philosophy of Science

PH 246 Environmental Ethics

PH 248 Contesting Climate Justice

PH 303 Humans and Other Animals