Katie McShane

Department of Philosophy and Religion

North Carolina State University

Campus Box 8103

Raleigh, NC  27695-8103

Office Phone: (919) 515-6337

Fax: (919) 513-4351

E-mail: katie_mcshane@ncsu.edu

 

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Areas of Specialization

Ethical Theory

Environmental Ethics

 

Academic Positions

2002 – present       Assistant Professor of Philosophy, North Carolina State University

2002-2003             Visiting Scholar, Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University

 

Education

1994-2002             Ph.D., University of Michigan (Philosophy)

1989-1993             B.A., Northwestern University (Philosophy, Honors)

 

Articles

• "Anthropocentrism vs. Nonanthropocentrism: Why Should We Care?" Environmental Values 16(2): 169-185 (2007).
• "Why Environmental Ethics Shouldn't Give Up on Intrinsic Value," Environmental Ethics 29(3): 43-61 (2007).
• "Rolston's Theory of Value" in Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III, edited by Christopher J. Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk (Springer, 2007), pp. 1-15.
• "Ecosystem Health," Environmental Ethics 26(3): 227-245 (2004).

Book Reviews

• Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy, by Kristin Shrader-Frechette, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, September 2003. (Click here for a link to this review.)
• Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature, by Dale Jamieson, Environmental Ethics 28(3): 323-26 (2006).

Presentations

• "Neosentimentalism and Environmental Ethics," International Society for Environmental Ethics and International Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference, Future Trends in Environmental Philosophy, June 2007.
• "Is Awe a Valuing Attitude?" Department of Philosophy & Religion Faculty Colloquium, North Carolina State University, October 2006.
• Comments on Avram Hiller's "A Quasi-Realist Environmental Ethic," International Society for Environmental Ethics and International Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference, Future Trends in Environmental Philosophy, June 2005.
• Comments on Victoria Weafer's "A Biological Critique of Natural Normativity," International Society for Environmental Ethics and International Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference, Future Trends in Environmental Philosophy, June 2005.
• "Science and Values: The Case of Forest Health," Harvard Forest, June 2005.
• "Why Environmental Ethics Shouldn't Give Up on Intrinsic Value," Karbank Symposium on Environmental Philosophy, Boston University, April 2005.
• "Plumbing the Depths of the Deep Green Ethic: Comments on Dale Jamieson's Morality's Progress," APA Pacific Division Meetings, March 2005.
• "Anthropocentrism vs. Nonanthropocentrism: Why Should We Care?" International Society for Environmental Ethics and International Association for Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference, Future Trends in Environmental Philosophy, June 2004.
• "Ethics," Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Faculty Development Workshop, Integrating Ethics into Environmental Studies: Ethics, Science, and Civic Responsibility, May 2004.
• "Ecosystem Health," Bowdoin College, February 2003.
• "What Environmentalists Should Mean by 'Intrinsic Value,'" Colby College, March 2003.
• "G.E. Moore on Intrinsic Value," Conference for Value Inquiry, April 2003.

Work in Progress

• "Is Awe a Valuing Attitude?"
• "Neosentimentalism and Environmental Ethics"
• "Reply to Norton" (a response to Bryan Norton's "Convergence, Noninstrumental Value, and the Semantics of 'Love': A Reply to McShane," forthcoming in Environmental Values)
• "Environmental Ethics" (a commissioned survey article for Philosophy Compass)

Fellowships and Awards

2002	John Dewey Award for Teaching Excellence (Philosophy Department, University of Michigan)
2001	Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (Graduate School, University of Michigan)
2000	Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Woodrow Wilson Foundation)
2000	Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Graduate School, University of Michigan, declined)
1999	Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship, (Michigan Center for the Education of Women)
1998	Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship (Philosophy Department, University of Michigan)
1997	Andrew W. Mellon Candidacy Fellowship (Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan)
1996	Marshall Weinberg Summer Fellowship (Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan)

 

Courses Taught

Philosophical Issues in Environmental Ethics

Philosophical Ethics (Honors Seminar)

Ethics

Introduction to Philosophy

Contemporary Moral Problems

Ethics in Science

 

Academic Service

2004-present   Faculty Affiliate of Science, Technology and Society Program, North Carolina State University

2006                Philosophy Outcomes Assessment Committee, Department of Philosophy & Religion, North Carolina State University

2005                Ethics Curriculum Committee, Department of Philosophy & Religion, North Carolina State University

2002-2005       Steering Committee, Research Ethics Program, North Carolina State University

1998-1999       Graduate Employees Organization Steward, University of Michigan

1998-1999       Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

1997-1998       Graduate Student Representative, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

 

Professional Organization Memberships

American Philosophical Association

International Society for Environmental Ethics

 

Last updated: November 26, 2007.