BENJAMIN HALE is assistant professor in the Philosophy Department and the Environmental Studies Program. From 2006-2008 he was Director of the Philosophy Department's Center for Values and Social Policy. He continues active engagement with the Center, and is particularly instrumental in co-coordinating the annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress with Alastair Norcross. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, which is associated with CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. His primary area of research interest is environmental ethics, though he maintains active interest in a wide range of concerns in applied ethics, normative ethics, and even metaethics. Much of his recent work centers on ethical and environmental concerns presented by emerging technologies. And yes, he is the designer of this website.

For more information, see Professor Hale's personal website and CV.

• “Carbon Sequestration, Ocean Fertilization, and the Problem of Permissible Pollution” (with Lisa Dilling), Science, Technology, and Human Values. Forthcoming.*
• “Getting the Bad Out: Remediation Technologies and Respect for Others” The Environment, Vol. 9, Topics in Contemporary Philosophy. Eds. Michael O'Rourke, et al. Boston: MIT Press. Forthcoming, 2010.*
• “Is Justice Good for Your Sleep? (And therefore, Good for Your Health?)” (with Lauren Hale), Social Theory and Health. Forthcoming.*
• “Remediation and Respect: Do Remediation Technologies Alter Our Responsibility?” (with Bill Grundy), Environmental Values. 18(4). 2009.*
• “Choosing to Sleep,” Benjamin Hale and Lauren Hale in The Philosophy of Public Health, ed. Angus Dawson. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).*

• "What's so Moral About the Moral Hazard?" Public Affairs Quarterly, Jan 2009.
• "Open to Debate: Moral Consideration and the Lab Monkey," American Journal of Bioethics, 8(6). 53-54. June 2008.
• “Crossing the Property Line: A New Direction for Environmental Ethics,” Metaphilosophy, October 2008.
• “Technology, the Environment, and the Moral Considerability of Artifacts,” in New Waves in Philosophy of Technology, ed. Evan Selinger, Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, and Søren Riis. (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007).
• “Choosing to Sleep,” co-authored with Lauren Hale, in The Philosophy of Public Health, ed. Angus Dawson. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
• “Culpability and Blame after Pregnancy Loss,” Journal of Medical Ethics, Jan 2007: 33-24.
• “Risk, Judgment, and Fairness in Research Incentives,” American Journal of Bioethics, 7(2), 2007.
• “Gavagai Goulash: Growing Organs for Food,” THINK! Philosophy for Everyone. Periodical of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. 16 (2007): 61-70.
• "The Moral Considerability of Invasive, Transgenic Animals," Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Volume 19, No. 2, 2006.
• "Identity Crisis: Face Recognition Technology and Freedom of the Will,” Ethics, Place, and the Environment, Volume 8, No. 2, 141-158, 2005.