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Toby Svoboda

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Toby Svoboda

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Department/Office Information

Philosophy
Hascall Hall
  • MW 10:15am - 11:45am (Hascall Hall)

Contact

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Books

  • A Philosophical Defense of Misanthropy (Routledge, 2022)
  • The Ethics of Climate Engineering: Non-Ideal Justice and Solar Radiation Management (Routledge, 2017)
  • Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic (Routledge, 2015)

Selected Journal Articles

  • “Tǰ𲹳’s Walden: Epicureanism or Stoicism?” The Concord Saunterer 29 (2021): 132-146
  • “Foucault on Correspondence as a Technique of the Self,” Genealogy + Critique (formerly Le foucauldien) 6:1 (2020) 
  • “Climate Change, Individual Emissions, and Agent-Regret,” Analysis 80:1 (2020): 84-89 
  • “The Potential for Climate Engineering with Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Injections to Reduce Climate Injustice” (authors: Toby Svoboda, Peter Irvine, Daniel Callies, Masa Sugiyama), Journal of Global Ethics 14:3 (2018): 353-368 
  • “Is Climate Change Morally Good from Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives?” (authors: Toby Svoboda and Jacob Haqq-Misra), Ethics, Policy & Environment 21:2 (2018): 215-228
  • “Why Moral Error Theorists Should Become Revisionary Moral Expressivists,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 14:1 (2017): 48-72
  • “Environmental Philosophy as a Way of Life,” Ethics & the Environment 21:1 (2016): 39-60
  • “Aerosol Geoengineering Deployment and Fairness,” Environmental Values 25:1 (2016): 51-68
  • “Geoengineering and Non-Ideal Theory,” Public Affairs Quarterly 30:1 (2016): 85-104 (authors: David Morrow and Toby Svoboda)
  •  “Geoengineering, Agent-Regret, and the Lesser of Two Evils Argument,” Environmental Ethics 37:2 (2015): 207-220
  •  “Ethical and Technical Challenges to Compensating for Harm Due to Solar Radiation Management Geoengineering” (authors: Toby Svoboda and Peter Irvine), Ethics, Policy & Environment 17:2 (2014): 157-174 
  • “A Reconsideration of Indirect Duties Regarding Non-Human Organisms,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17:2 (2014): 311-323
  • “Towards Integrated Ethical and Scientific Analysis of Geoengineering: A Research Agenda” (authors: Nancy Tuana, Ryan Sriver, Toby Svoboda, Roman Tonkonojenkov, Peter Irvine, Jacob Haqq-Misra, and Klaus Keller), Ethics, Policy & Environment 15:2 (2012): 136-157
  • “The Ethics of Geoengineering: Moral Considerability and the Convergence Hypothesis,” The Journal of Applied Philosophy 29:3 (2012): 243-256
  • “Why There is No Evidence for the Intrinsic Value of Non-humans,” Ethics & the Environment 16:2 (2011): 25-36
  • “Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering: The Question of Justice” (authors: Toby Svoboda, Klaus Keller, Marlos Goes, and Nancy Tuana), Public Affairs Quarterly 25:3 (2011): 157-179