Curriculum Vitae, Shane Epting Ph.D.
Missouri University of Science and Technology
224 Castleman, 400 W 10th Street, Rolla, MO, 65409
shane.epting.philosophy@gmail.com – www.shaneepting.org
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Department of Arts, Languages, and Philosophy, 2019 – Present
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Philosophy, 2016–2019
Instructor of Record
University of North Texas, Department of Philosophy and Religion, 2011–2016
University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Philosophy, 2010–2011
Teaching Assistant
University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Philosophy, 2009–2010
Research Associations
Member, Center for Intelligent Infrastructure, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2021— Present.
Affiliate Member, University of Milan – Culinary Mind: Center for Philosophy of Food, 2017—Present.
Research Associate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Transportation Research Center, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, 2016 – 2019.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Texas, 2015
M.A., Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso, 2011
B.A., Philosophy, University of North Texas, 2008
Areas of Research Specialization
Philosophy of the City, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Food, Environmental Ethics
Areas of Teaching Competence
Engineering Ethics, Business Ethics, Ethics
SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS
Books (Research-based, Single-authored Monographs)
4. Shane Epting. 2023. Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City. New York: Routledge.
3. Shane Epting. 2022. Ethics in Agribusiness: Justice and Global Food in Focus. New York: Routledge.
2. Shane Epting. 2021. Saving Cities: A Taxonomy of Urban Technologies. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
1. Shane Epting. 2021. The Morality of Urban Mobility: Technology and Philosophy of the City, featuring a forward by Lewis R. Gordon. London: Rowman and Littlefield International.
Refereed Journal Articles
26. Shane Epting. October 2023. Philosophy of the City and Transdisciplinary
Possibilities. Philosophy of the City Journal Vol. 1, No. 1. pp. 10-18.
25. Shane Epting. 2022. People Love Cities—but do Cities Love them Back?, East Asian Journal of Philosophy Vo1 1. No. 3. pp. 7-20.
24. Shane Epting. 2021. On Municipalities as Technologies, Philosophy & Technology Vol. 34, No. 4. pp. 863-873.
23. Shane Epting. 2021. Vulnerable Groups, Virtual Cities, and Social Isolation, Technology in Society Vol. 67, 101711.
22. Shane Epting. 2021. Danger in the Rocks? Thinking through Land Use and Naturally-Occurring Asbestos with Structural Ethics, Ethics and the Environment Vol. 26, No. 1. pp. 85-104.
21. Shane Epting. 2021. The United States Department of Sustainability: Its Purpose and Moral Underpinnings, Sustainability and Climate Change Vol 14, No. 2. pp. 1-8.
20. Shane Epting. 2021. Urban Infrastructure and the Problem of Moral Praise, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology Vol. 25, No. 1., pp. 112–129.
19. Shane Epting. 2021. Ethical Requirements for Transport Systems with Automated Buses, Technology in Society Vol. 64, 101508.
18. Shane Epting (first author) and David Beisecker (second author). 2020. Bicycle Infrastructure in Las Vegas: A “Thought Experiment,” Public Philosophy Journal Vol. 3, No. 2.
17. Shane Epting. 2020. Infrastructure, Urban Sprawl, and Naturally-Occurring Asbestos: An Ontological Thought Model for Wicked and Saving Technologies, Open Philosophy Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-11.
16. Shane Epting. 2020. Unjust Food Systems and Applied Mereology, Argumenta – Journal of Analytic Philosophy Vol. 10, No.1, pp. 199-213.
15. Shane Epting. 2020. Participatory Budgeting for Environmental Justice, Ethics, Policy & Environment Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 22-36.
14. Shane Epting. 2020. Affordable Housing in Regions with Naturally-Occurring Asbestos, Environmental Justice, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 15-20.
13. Shane Epting. 2019. Automated Vehicles and Transportation Justice, Philosophy & Technology, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 389–403.
12. Shane Epting. 2019. Transportation Planning for Automated Vehicles—Or Automated Vehicles for Transportation Planning?, Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 189-205.
11. Shane Epting. 2018. Cohousing, Environmental Justice, and Urban Sustainability, Environmental Ethics, Vol. 40, No 2. pp. 39-56.
10. Shane Epting. 2018. Advancing Food Sovereignty through Interrogating the Question: What Is Food Sovereignty?, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 593-604.
9. Shane Epting. 2017. The Peñalosa Principle of Transportation Democracy: Lessons from Bogotá on the Morality of Urban Mobility, Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 1086-1096.
8. Shane Epting. 2017. On Moral Prioritization in Environmental Ethics: Weak Anthropocentrism for the City, Environmental Ethics, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 131-146.
7. Shane Epting. 2016. A Different Trolley Problem: The Limits of Environmental Justice and the Promise of Complex Moral Assessments for Transportation Infrastructure, Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1781–1795.
6. Shane Epting. 2016. Participatory Budgeting and Vertical Agriculture: A Thought Experiment in Food System Reform, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 737-748.
5. Shane Epting. 2016. An Applied Mereology of the City: Unifying Science and Philosophy for Urban Planning, Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 1361–1374.
4. Shane Epting. 2016. Intra-disciplinary Research as Progress in Philosophy: Lessons from Philosophy of the City, Philosophia, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 101-111.
3. Shane Epting. 2016. The Moral Dimensions of Infrastructure, Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 22, No.2. pp. 435–449.
2. Shane Epting. 2015. The Limits of Environmental Remediation Protocols for Environmental Justice. Cases: Lessons from Vieques, Puerto Rico, Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 352-365.
1. Shane Epting. 2010. Questioning Technology’s Role in Environmental Ethics: Weak Anthropocentrism Revisited, Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 18-26.
Book Chapters
3. Shane Epting. 2022. Automated Vehicles and Environmental Justice: Addressing the Challenges Ahead, in D. Michelfelder. Test-Driving the Future: Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of Technological Change. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
2. Shane Epting. 2019. Philosophy of the City and Transportation Justice, in S. Noll, J. Biehl, and S. Meagher (Eds.), The Routledge Philosophy of the City Handbook. New York: Routledge.
1. Shane Epting. 2017. Introduction to Food Justice and the Built Environment, in I. Werkheiser and Z. Piso (Eds.), Food Justice in US and Global Contexts: Bringing Theory and Practice Together. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 89-93.
Introductions to Guest-Edited Volumes
4. Shane Epting. August 2019. Introduction to the Special Issue on The Philosophical
Dimensions of Urban Transportation, Essays in Philosophy Vol 20, No. 2.
3. Shane Epting. Summer 2018. Introduction to the Special Issue on Philosophy of the City and
Environmental Ethics, Environmental Ethics Vol. 40, No 2. pp. 2-3.
2. Shane Epting. April 2016. Introduction to the Special Issue on Interdisciplinary Approaches to
Environmental Challenges for Urban Centres, Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, Vol. 17,
No.2, pp. 1-2.
1. Shane Epting. July 2014. The Interdisciplinary Aspects of Environmental Justice and Public
Health: A Meta-analysis, Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, Vol. 15, No. 2/3, pp. 89-93.
Guest-Edited Volumes of Journals
4. Shane Epting. (Ed.) August 2019. Essays in Philosophy, special issue on The Philosophical Dimensions of Urban Transportation, Vol. 20, No. 2.
3. Shane Epting. (Ed.) Summer 2018. Environmental Ethics, special issue on Philosophy of the City and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 40, No 2.
2. Shane Epting. (Ed.) April 2016. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, special issue on
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Challenges for Urban Centres, Vol. 17, No.2.
1. Shane Epting. (Ed.) July 2014. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, special issue on
Environmental Justice and Public Health, Vol. 15, No. 2/3.
Media Appearances
3. Shane Epting. 12/2022. “Shane Epting on the Philosophy of Cities.” Daily Philosophy. https://daily-philosophy.com/interview-shane-epting-philosophy-of-cities/
2. Shane Epting. 11/2020. Invited Guest, Thought about Food – Podcast. Episode: “Philosophy of the City and Food Sovereignty.”
1. Shane Epting. 08/2020. Invited Guest, Philosophy Talk - KALW, 91.7 FM, San Francisco,
California (nationally syndicated, 126 stations; SiriusXM) Episode: “Can Streets Discriminate?”
https://www.kalw.org/post/philosophy-talk-can-streets-discriminate#stream/0
https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/can-streets-discriminate
Book Tour
Shane Epting, Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City
February 1, 2023. University of Tampere
March 27, 2023. University of Connecticut
March 30, 2023. Brooklyn College
March 31, 2023. Northeastern University
April 1, 2023. St. John's University
May 11, 2023. Portland State University
Author Meets Critics
Ethics in Agribusiness: Justice and Global Food in Focus, University of Milan – Center for Philosophy of Food, October 25, 2022.
Keynote Presentations
7. Shane Epting. 2/3/2023. Keynote Address: Municipal and Citizen Cooperation for Urban Sustainability. Urban Sustainability, Co-operation and Justice Seminar. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
6. Shane Epting. 10/21/2022. Keynote Address: What is Urban Enlightenment? Philosophy of the City Conference, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
5. Shane Epting. 11/25/2021. Keynote Address: Transportation Justice, Participation, and Urban Enlightenment. The Finnish Society for Environmental Social Science Annual Colloquium. Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
4. Shane Epting. 06/11-14/2019. Keynote Address: Cities as Sites of Interdisciplinary Research and Transdisciplinary Progress, The 25th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
3. Shane Epting. 04/26/2019. Keynote Address: On Flourishing in the City, Rethinking the
European City: New Conceptions and the Living Heritage Conference, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.
2. Shane Epting. 10/11/2017. Keynote/Presidential Address: Complex Moral Assessments for Urban Affairs, Philosophy of the City Conference, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
1. Shane Epting. 04/25/2013. Conferencia Magistral (Keynote Address): La Crisis de la
Identidad Citadina en la Cara de la Globalización y Sustentabilidad (The Crisis of City Identity
in the Face of Globalization and Sustainability), del II Encuentro Regional de Filosofia Zona
Norte, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Invited Presentations
18. Shane Epting. 03/02/2022. The Morality of Urban Mobility: Selections. Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology Research Group, Online.
17. Shane Epting. 06/2018. Cohousing and Environmentally Just Urban Sustainability, Panel Session on Urban Politics, 24-hour Political Science Conference 2018, Leiden University,
The Netherlands.
16. Shane Epting. 06/2018. Moral Concerns for Cohousing, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
15. Shane Epting. 06/2018. Conceptions of Food Sovereignty, The Dining Experience: New
Questions for Theoretical Philosophy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
14. Shane Epting. 03/2017. Automobiles as Vehicles of Anti-freedom: Systemic Issues for the Horseless Carriage, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.
13. Shane Epting. 08/2016. The Peñalosa Principle of Transportation Democracy: Lessons from Bogotá on the Morality of Urban Mobility, Workshop on Urban Justice, University of San Francisco.
12. Shane Epting. 04/2016. Uses of Public Land for Transportation Planning: Moral Groundings
For Transportation Planning: Moral Groundings for Democratic Actions, Texas Woman’s
University, Denton, Texas.
11. Shane Epting. 04/30/2015. Philosophy of the City: Disciplinary and Intra-disciplinary
Directions, City University of New York, Graduate Center for Worker Education, New York,
10. Shane Epting. 03/2014. Sustainability’s Role in a City’s Identity: Overcoming Injustice in
Urban Planning, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida.
9. Shane Epting. 03/2014 Leveraging Sustainability in Academia: Role of Universities,
Southwest Academy of Management Conference, Dallas, Texas.
8. Shane Epting. 11/2012. Interdisciplinary Adjustments in Environmental Science, Third
International Conference on Traditional Culture and Ecological Civilization, Chinese Society for
Environmental Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
7. Shane Epting. 09/2012. (guest lecture) Ethical Obligations of Field Philosophy: Interviewing
Victims of Environmental Injustice, Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri.
6. Shane Epting. 09/2012. Accounting for Future Generations and Non-humans in Environmental
Justice Field Work, Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri.
5. Shane Epting. 11/2011. The Purpose of Universities and The Prospects of Resistance in the
US: Reflections from the Justice Stand. A Conference of Transformative Pedagogies.
West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
4. Shane Epting. 11/ 2011 Environmental Justice and Leadership for the 21st Century: Politics,
Education, and Ethics, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida, November 2011.
3. Shane Epting. 03/2011 Sustainability Ethics and the Future of Farming and City Planning:
How Much Compromise Is Too Much? Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, Texas Master
Naturalists’ Trans-Pecos Meeting on Sustainability, El Paso, Texas.
2. Shane Epting. 11/2010. Incorporating Sustainability into Urban Infrastructures: The Tension
between Bio-cultural Aspects and Environmental Considerations, New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
1. Shane Epting. 01/2010. Socio-eco-logical Responsibility and Land, Earth-Polis-Agua: A NSF
Workshop on Desertification in the Tri-City Region of Las Cruces-Juarez-El Paso, El Paso,
Texas.
Conference Presentations
37. Shane Epting. 11/03/2022. Urban Enlightenment: The Struggle for Morality in the City. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Sixth Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
36. Shane Epting 10/2022. Book Presentation: Ethics in Agribusiness: Justice and Global Food
in Focus. The Twenty-seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment
(Online).
35. Shane Epting. 04/2022. Continental Philosophy for the City: The Role of Wisdom in Shaping
Urban Life. Southeastern Association for the Continental Tradition, Sarasota, Florida.
34. Shane Epting. 01/2020 Annexation and Environmental Harm, American Philosophical
Association Eastern Division One Hundred Sixteenth Meeting, Philosophy of the City Research
Group Session.
33. Shane Epting. 10/2019. Infrastructure, Urban Sprawl, and Naturally Occurring Asbestos,
Philosophy of the City Conference, Detroit, Michigan.
32. Shane Epting. 10/2018. The City After Hans Jonas’ Technological Ethics, Philosophy of the
City Conference 2018, Bogotá, Colombia.
31. Shane Epting. 10/2018. Creating Serving Learning Courses for Philosophy of the City:
Lessons from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Philosophy of the City Conference, Bogotá,
Colombia.
30. Shane Epting. 06/2018. Urban Infrastructure and the Problem of Moral Praise, Technology &
The City Summer Colloquium, Enschede, The Netherlands.
29. Shane Epting. 03/2018. Beyond the Community Garden: Long-term Food Security through
Participatory Budgeting, Innovations in Participatory Democracy Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
28. Shane Epting. 02/2018. Multi-dimensional Assessments of Transportation: The Case of Las
Vegas, The Fourth Public Philosophy Network Conference, Boulder, Colorado.
27a. Shane Epting. 01/2018. Complex Moral Assessments for Urban Flourishing: The Case of
Las Vegas, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division One Hundred Fourteenth
Meeting, Philosophy of the City Research Group Session, Savannah, Georgia.
27b. Shane Epting. 01/2018. On Moral Prioritization in Environmental Ethics: Weak
Anthropocentrism for the City, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division One
Hundred Fourteenth Meeting, International Association for Environmental Philosophy Group
Session (submission accepted; panel cancelled due to inclement weather, but I was there).
26. Shane Epting. 07/2017. The Restorative Justice Blind Spot in Philosophy, North American
Society for Social Philosophy Thirty-fourth Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
25. Shane Epting. 10/2016. The Peñalosa Principle of Transportation Democracy, A Culture of
Ethics: Engineering for Human Dignity and the Common Good, St. Paul, Minnesota.
24. Shane Epting. 05/2016. The Limits of Environmental Justice and the Promise of Complex
Moral Assessments for Transportation Infrastructure, The Consortium for Socially Relevant
Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering, Dallas, Texas.
23. Shane Epting. 11/ 2015. A Different Trolley Problem: Complex Moral Assessments for
Transportation Infrastructure, Philosophy of the City Conference, Hong Kong, People's Republic
of China.
22. Shane Epting. 07/2015. The Moral Dimensions of Infrastructure, North American Society for
Social Philosophy Thirty Second Annual Conference, Liberty, Missouri.
21. Shane Epting. 12/2014. Is There a Need for a New Philosophy, a New Philosophy of the
City?, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division One Hundred Tenth Meeting,
Philosophy of the City Research Group Session, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
20. Shane Epting. 12/1014. What can Philosophy of the City learn from Philosophy of
Technology?, Philosophy of the City Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.
19. Shane Epting. 10/2014. Urbanizing Justice: Issues in Food Security and Sustainability, The
Ninth International Conference on Applied Ethics, Sapporo, Japan.
18. Shane Epting. 12/2013. Systems-thinking and City Identity: Metastructures the Role of
Incongruence, Philosophy of the City Conference, Brooklyn, New York.
17. Shane Epting. 06/2013. The Systematic Incongruence between Sustainability and Globalization: Can Participatory Planning and Budgeting Improve their Compatibility? The Nineteenth International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Portland, Oregon.
16. Shane Epting. 11/2012. The Status of Water in Sustainability and Urban Planning: Does
Water Have Intrinsic Value?, International Association for Environmental Philosophy Sixteenth
Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York.
15. Shane Epting. 10/2012. The Identity of a City and the City Contract: Justice Issues in Urban
Planning, Masterplanning the Future: China, India, and the West, Suzhou,
People’s Republic of China.
14. Shane Epting. 06/2012. The Scope of Responsibility for Environmental Remediation and
Restoration Policy: The Question of Environmental Justice in Vieques, Puerto Rico, The
Eighteenth International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Portland, Maine.
13. Shane Epting. 01/2012. Digitizing Darwin in a Democracy: The Problem of Embedded
Human Will, Techno-evolution, and Social Justice, Eighth International Technology,
Knowledge, and Society Conference, Los Angeles, California.
12. Shane Epting. 01/2012. The Identity of the City and the Problem of Globalized Techno-
consumerism, International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Meaning, Culture, and Values,
New Delhi, India.
11. Shane Epting. 11/2011. Hawaiian Mythology and the Benefits of an Ecological Noble Lie:
Water Resource Management, Sustainability, and the Curse of the Volcano Goddess Pele, Water
Resources and Sustainability on Tropical Islands, Honolulu, Hawaii.
10. Shane Epting. 11/2011. Climate Change and a Changing Economic Climate: Can
Environmental Virtue Education Resolve Conflicts of Economic and Ecological Interests?,
Beyond Sustainability: Ecosystems, Education, and Economics, Institute for Florida Studies,
Plant City, Florida.
9. Shane Epting. 06/2011. Thinking for an Ocean: The Imperatives of The Interagency Ocean
Policy Task Force and the Problems with Oceanic Sustainability Ethics, The Seventeenth
International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Kona, Hawaii.
8. Shane Epting. 12/2010. Incorporating Sustainability into Urban Infrastructures: The Tension
between Bio-cultural Aspects and Environmental Considerations, American Philosophical
Association—International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Eastern Division
Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
7. Shane Epting. 09/2010. From the Laboratory to the Courtroom: The Benefits of Viewing
Environmental Policy as a Closed System, The Sixteenth International Interdisciplinary
Conference on the Environment, Tucson, Arizona.
6. Shane Epting. 09/2010. The Tension between Economic Policy and Sustainability: Questions
Of Justice and Global Climate Change, The Sixteenth International Interdisciplinary Conference
On the Environment, Tucson, Arizona.
5. Shane Epting and Carl Sachs (equal co-presenters). 05/2010. Thinking of the Living Body in Hans Jonas and Merleau- Ponty, Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
4. Shane Epting. 05/2010. New Directions in Phenomenological Architecture: Balancing
Environment, Society and Economics (second author: Giancarlo Mangone), Geoaesthetics in the
Anthropocene Conference - International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salisbury,
Maryland.
3. Shane Epting. 04/2010. Unexamined Resources are Worth Having: Metaphysics, Ethics, and
Sustainability in the Chihuahuan Desert, North Texas Philosophical Association Forty-third
Annual Meeting, Denton, Texas.
2. Shane Epting. 11/2009. Questioning Technology’s Role in Environmental Ethics: Weak
Anthropocentrism Revisited, International Association for Environmental Philosophy Thirteenth
Annual Meeting, Arlington, Virginia.
1. Shane Epting. 07/2009. Questioning Technology’s Role in Environmental Ethics: Weak
Anthropocentrism Revisited. The Fifteenth International Interdisciplinary Conference on the
Environment, Daytona Beach, Florida.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Courses Taught at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Fall 2019 – Present)
Creating Future Cities
Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Ethics
Engineering Ethics
Business Ethics
Directed-study Course taught at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Philosophical Foundations of Conservation and Preservation (1 student)
Graduate Courses taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(between Fall 2016 – Spring 2019)
Philosophy of the City
Transportation Justice
Undergraduate Courses taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(between Fall 2016 – Spring 2019)
Environmental Ethics
Philosophy of the City
Transportation Justice
Ethics for Engineers and Scientists
Introduction to Philosophy
Directed-study Courses taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(between Fall 2016 – Spring 2019)
Ethics of Urban Policy (2 students)
Undergraduate Courses taught at the University of North Texas
Environmental Ethics
Contemporary Moral Issues
Contemporary Environmental Issues
Philosophy of Self
Great World Religions
Undergraduate Courses taught at the University of Texas at El Paso
Ethics
Graduate Thesis Committee Service
Student: Walker Peatross, University of Texas at El Paso. Thesis: Climate Change: The Final Crisis Of Capital. Role, External Examiner.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University Service at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Sustainability Minor Representative, 2020—2022.
Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Faculty Executive Committee Member 2022—Present.
Departmental Service at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Department of Arts, Languages, and Philosophy Speaker Series Committee Member, Fall 2019—Present.
Service to the University of Missouri System
Affiliate Faculty — Missouri Language and Literacies Center, October 2020.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Professional Service
Counselor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, 2022—Present
Chair of the Advisory Board, Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, 2019—September 2021
Codirector, Philosophy of the City Research Group, 2019 — present
President, Philosophy of the City Research Group, 2016 —2019
Co-founder and Vice President, Philosophy of the City Research Group, 2013 —2016
President, Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, 2017—2019
Vice President, Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, 2015 —2017
Advisory Panel, Future Cities Project, 2014 —2014
Counselor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, 2013 — 2015
Current Society Memberships
Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, 2009-Present
Philosophy of the City Research Group, 2013-Present
Intermittent Society Memberships
American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division)
The Society for Philosophy of Technology
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
North American Society for Social Philosophy
Service on Editorial, Advisory, or Reviewer Boards for Refereed Journals
Land (2021—present), Journal of Sociotechnical Critique (2019—Present), Public Philosophy Journal (2017— Present), Management of Environmental Quality (2015—present)
Referee Service for Journals and Presses
Philosophy & Technology (13 reviews), Environmental Justice (3 reviews), Journal of Sociotechnical Critique (2 reviews), Essays in Philosophy (2 reviews), Palgrave Macmillan (2 reviews), Oxford University Press (1 review), Ethics, Policy & Environment (3 reviews), Science and Engineering Ethics (4 reviews), Springer (1 review), Environmental Ethics (3 reviews), Erkenntnis (1 review), Technology in Society (3 reviews), Environmental Sociology (1 review), The Social Science Journal (1 review), Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (2 reviews), Edinburgh University Press (1 review) Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (3 reviews) Teaching Philosophy (2 reviews), Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (1 review), Rowan and Littlefield International (1 review), Social Sciences (1 review), Societies (2 reviews), Sustainability (5 reviews) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (6 reviews), Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2 reviews), Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility (1 review), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (1 review), Argumenta (1 review), The East Asian Journal of Philosophy (1 review) Moral Philosophy and Politics (1 review).
Conference, Colloquium, and Workshop Organization
Conference Committee Member, Philosophy of the City Now: Around the World in 24 Hours, May 17, 2021.
Conference Chair, Ethical Engineering for Sustainability, Wicked Problems, and Beyond: An (Online) Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference for Tomorrow’s Leaders, December 11—12, 2020.
Colloquium Chair, Technology and the Future of the Home (online), Missouri University of Science and Technology, November 6, 2020.
Conference Committee Member, Philosophy of the City Conference 2019, University of Detroit—Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, October 3-5.
Conference Committee Member, Philosophy of the City Conference 2018, La Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia, October 11-13.
Conference Committee Member, Philosophy of the City Conference 2017, University of Porto, October 11-13.
Conference Co-chair: Philosophy of the City Conference 2016, University of San Francisco, November 17-19, 2016.
Conference Chair: The 22nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Austin, TX, June 28-30, 2016.
Conference Co-chair: Philosophy of the City 2015 Conference Series: Possible Futures and Challenges for Technology, Ecology, and Justice, Portland State University, University of Hong Kong, Autonomous Metropolitan University-Itzapalapa, Mexico City, November-December 2015.
Conference Chair: The 21st International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 12-14, 2015.
Conference Co-chair: Philosophy of the City—Mexico City, Autonomous Metropolitan University-Itzapalapa, Mexico City, December 4-5, 2014.
Conference Chair: The 20th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment
Denver, CO, June 13-15, 2014.
Conference Co-chair: The Philosophical and Political Dimensions of NAFTA: Examining 20
Years of Free Trade, April 24-25, 2014, Autonomous Metropolitan University-Itzapalapa,
Mexico City.
Conference Co-chair: Philosophy of the City, City University of New York, Brooklyn College, New York City, December 6-7, 2013.
Conference Chair: The 19h International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment,
Portland, OR, June 2013.
Workshop Chair: The Interdisciplinary Aspects of Public Health and Environmental Justice III,
December 2012, Bethune-Cookman University.
Conference Chair: The Interdisciplinary Aspects of Public Health and Environmental Justice II,
September 2012, University of North Texas.
Workshop Chair: The Interdisciplinary Aspects of Public Health and Environmental Justice, April 2012, University of Texas at El Paso.
Awards
College of Arts, Science, and Business Faculty Research Award, $500, March 24, 2022.
Miner Alumni Association’s Class of ’42 Excellence in Teaching Award, $2000, August 2, 2021.
Richardson Environmental Action League Award, $1000, March 2014.
Outstanding Graduate Student, University of Texas at El Paso, May 2011.
26. Shane Epting. October 2023. Philosophy of the City and Transdisciplinary
Possibilities. Philosophy of the City Journal Vol. 1, No. 1. pp. 10-18.