Jennifer Welchman

Jennifer Welchman is a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Global Studies. Her focuses are in environmental stewardship, global justice, and freedom from duress. Her main areas of research and teaching expertise are in Ethics (Normative and Applied), the History of Moral Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics. Her chief philosophical indulgence is Aesthetics (especially Film Aesthetics) and her historical work has mainly focused on naturalist theories/theorists. After completing a dissertation on John Dewey's ethics, she researched and published on the theories of classic American Pragmatists (Dewey and William James), contemporaries such as G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, as well as on earlier figures such as John Locke, Bernard Mandeville, and David Hume. She has also edited a collection on Virtue Ethics and is founding director of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/Société canadienne de philosophie environnementale (CSEP/SCEP).