Robert Frodeman is former Professor and former Chair, Dept of
Philosophy and Religion,
University of North Texas
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, previously at the
University of Colorado
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, and Director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity. He publishes in the philosophy of geology, the philosophy of interdisciplinarity, and practical philosophy. Frodeman is now a writer and consultant living in Hoback, Wyoming.
Education
Frodeman attended
St. Louis University, where he gained degrees in History and Philosophy (1981),
Pennsylvania State University, where he obtained a
Ph.D.
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in
Philosophy (1988), studying with
Stanley Rosen
Stanley Rosen (July 29, 1929 – May 4, 2014) was Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy and Professor Emeritus at Boston University. His research and teaching focused on the fundamental questions of philosophy and on the most important figur ...
and
Alphonso Lingis, and the
University of Colorado
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, where he was awarded a
M.S. degree while studying at
INSTAAR.
From 1993 to 2001 Frodeman consulted for the
US Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and ...
on questions of science policy, giving lectures to USGS field offices around the country. In 2001-2002, he was the Hennebach Professor of the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines; in 2005 he was the ESRC Fellow at Lancaster University in England. In 2016 Frodeman served as a member on an Expert Committee on
Altmetrics
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for the European Commission. Since retiring he has written on environmental questions in the American West.
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External links
Personal website
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1958 births
Living people
21st-century American philosophers
Saint Louis University alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
University of Colorado alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
University of North Texas faculty
Environmental ethicists