Ned Hettinger Professor  Philosophy College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424-0001 office: 16 Glebe St., room 201 tel: (843) 953-5786 fax: (843) 953-6388 e-mail: hettingern@cofc.edu	Links Professor Hettinger's Home Page Environmental Studies Minor Internationational Society for Environmental Ethics Environmental Ethics Searchable Bibliography

Ned Hettinger has a B.A. in economics and philosophy from Denison University (1975) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1985). Professor Hettinger specializes in environmental philosophy, ethics, and social and political philosophy. In addition to courses in those areas, he teaches aesthetics, ethics and the law, introduction to environmental studies, and nature, technology and society. He lives on Sullivan's Island and spends his summers in Bozeman, Montana.

Selected Publications

"Objectivity in Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment," in Allen Carlson and Sheila Lintott, eds., Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Duty to Beauty (New York: Columbia University Press, March 2008), pp. 413-37.

"Religion in Rolston’s Environmental Ethics," in Christopher Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk, eds., Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III (Springer, 2007), pp. 63-76.

"Respecting Nature’s Autonomy in Relationship with Humanity," in Thomas Heyd, ed., Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), pp. 86-98.

"Allen Carlson's Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment," Environmental Ethics 27, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 57-76.

"Bambi Lovers versus Tree Huggers," in Steve Sapontzis, ed., Food for Thought: The Debate over Meat Eating (Amherst, NY; Prometheus, 2004), pp., 294-301.

"The Problem of Finding A Positive Role for Humans in the Natural World," Ethics and the Environment, 7, no. 1 Spring 2002: 109-123.

"Environmental Disobedience," in Dale Jamieson, ed., A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Oxford:  Blackwell Publishers, 2001), pp. 498-509.

"Exotic Species, Naturalization, and Biological Nativism," Environmental Values 10, no. 2 (May 2001): 193-224.

"Understanding and Evaluating Exotics Species in Yellowstone Park," The Western North American Naturalist 61, no. 3 (July 2001): 257-260.

"Comments on Holmes Rolston's 'Naturalizing Values'," in Louis Pojman, ed., Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001), pp. 86-89.

"Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness," Environmental Ethics 21, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 3-21 (coauthor, Bill Throop, Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Green Mountain College). 

"Patenting Life: Biotechnology, Intellectual Property, and Environmental Ethics," Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 22, no. 2 (Winter 1995): 267-305. 

"Valuing Predation in Rolston's Environmental Ethics: Bambi Lovers versus Tree Huggers," Environmental Ethics 16, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 3-20. 

"Animal, Nature, and Ethics," Journal of Mammalogy 75, no. 1 (February 1994): 219-223 (coauthor, Marc Bekoff, Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder).

"The Responsible Use of Animals in Biomedical Research," Between The Species 5, no. 3 (Summer 1989): 123-131. 

"Justifying Intellectual Property," Philosophy and Public Affairs 18, no. 1 (Winter 1989): 31-52.

"What is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination?" Business and Professional Ethics Journal 6, no. 3 (Fall 1987): 39-55.