Philosophy
Lisa Kretz
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Lisa Kretz completed her doctoral training in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University under the supervision of Dr. Trish Glazebrook. Her dissertation was titled “Reconceptualizing the Ecological Self” and focused on the intersection of ecology, self-concept, and ethics. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Alberta where she studied under the direction of Dr. Allen Carlson in the area of environmental aesthetics. Lisa also has a Bachelor of Education and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Visual Art from the University of Western Ontario. Her most recent work focuses on the problem of akrasia, an issue discussed by Socrates in Plato’s Protagoras, wherein one knows the right thing to do but fails to act accordingly. She is interested in identifying how to bridge the gap between theoretical commitments and behaviour and discusses the problem as it pertains to climate change. Lisa argues that theory, practice and pedagogy must be empirically rooted in moral psychology regarding motivation and behaviour change to remedy the theory-action gap; namely the gap between espoused moral values and the actions that reflect such values. In a related vein she is exploring how hope motivates behavior in the context of environmental crisis, and argues that ecological philosophy requires a significant orientation to the role of hope in both theory and practice. Lisa has also been publishing in the area of animal liberation with a focus on the immoral dimensions of hunting non-human animals. Her publications include: Hope in Environmental Philosophy (Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics, Forthcoming), Responsible Philosophy: Climate Change and Bridging the Theory-Action Gap (Ethics & the Environment, Forthcoming), “Tovar Cerulli’s The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance” (Book review, Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems, Forthcoming); “A Shot In The Dark: The Dubious Prospect of Environmental Hunting” (Hunting – Philosophy for Everyone: In Search of the Wild Life, 2010); “Open Continuity” (Ethics & the Environment, 2009); “Arne Naess, In Memoriam” (International Society for Environmental Ethics Newsletter, 2009); “Ecological Economics” (Between the Issues, 2009); “Peter Carruthers and Brute Experience; Descartes Revisited” (Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal, 2004); with Cressida Heyes et al. “Always Ask Why? Teaching Philosophy 101” (Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Monograph Series, 2004). |
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