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Eric Katz (Ph.D. Boston University) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community (1997), and has edited with Andrew Light and David Rothenberg, Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays on Deep Ecology (2000) and also with Andrew Light, Environmental Pragmatism (1996). He has also published numerous articles within the field of environmental ethics. His interests include: Moral Philosophy; Applied Ethics; Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics; Holocaust Studies; Engineering Ethics and the Philosophy of Technology; History and Theory of Moral Philosophy; History and Problems of American Pragmatism; Philosophy of Mind and Personal Identity; Theories of Truth; Traditions in Jewish Ethics; Business Ethics and Medical Ethics. 

Webpage: http://www.njit.edu/Directory/Academic/HUM/EPS/katzhome.htm

Carolyn Merchant is Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a graduate of Vassar College and received her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the History of Science and an honorary degree from the University of Umeå in Sweden. She is the author of several books, including The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980); Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (1989); Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World (1992); Earthcare: Women and the Environment (1995), and the Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (2002), as well as numerous articles on the history of science, environmental history, and women and the environment. She is the editor of Major Problems in American Environmental History (1993) (with a companion study guide), Key Concepts in Critical Theory: Ecology (1994), and Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History (1998). 

She has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford; a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies; a Guggenheim fellow; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow in the Ecological Humanities at the National Humanities Center; a Fulbright senior scholar in Sweden; and the 1991 ecofeminist scholar at Murdoch University in Western Australia. She is the President of the American Society for Environmental History, has served on the Executive Committees of the American Society for Environmental History and the History of Science Society and is on the Advisory Boards of Environmental History, Ethics and the Environment, Organization and Environment, and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. 

Webpage: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/facultyinfo/merchant.htm

Tom Regan (Ph.D. University of Virginia) is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University. He is considered the philosophical leader of the animal rights movement. He is the author of "The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism", which has been anthologized in numerous philosophy textbooks on contemporary ethical issues. In 1976 he worked with Peter Singer on Animal Rights and Human Obligations. Professor Regan’s seminal work The Case for Animal Rights came out in 1983 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Shortly after its publication, Regan started work on a book about British philosopher George Edward Moore called Bloomsbury’s Prophet: G. E. Moore and the Development of His Moral Philosophy, which was published in 1987. Regan’s recent works Defending Animal Rights (2000) and (with Carl Cohen) The Animal Rights Debate (2001) continue his groundbreaking work in Animal Rights. 

Webpage: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/archives/exhibits/regan/
 

James Sterba (Ph.D., Pittsburgh) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Fellow of the National Humanities Center. His work concentrates on ethics, political philosophy, environmental ethics, and philosophy of peace and justice. His extensive publications include How to Make People Just (1988); Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy (1994); Morality in Practice, Fifth edition (1996); Social and Political Philosophy: Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives, 2nd ed. (1997); Feminist Philosophies, Second Edition (1998); Justice: Alternative Political Perspectives, 3rd ed. (1998); Justice for Here and Now, (1998); Earth Ethics, 2nd edition, editor (1999); and Three Challenges to Ethics (1999). 

Webpage: http://www.nd.edu/~krocinst/people/sterba.shtml
 

Peter Wenz (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin), a Professor of Philosophy and Legal Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield and Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, teaches a variety of courses in applied ethics and law, including Moral Issues in the Law, Philosophy of Law, Biomedical Ethics and the Law, and Environmental Values. His single-authored books are Environmental Justice (1988), Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom (1992), and Nature's Keeper (1996). He and Laura Westra co-edited Faces of  Environmental Racism (1995). He is currently a member of the Ethics Committee at Memorial Hospital in Springfield. His current research interest include writing a single-authored text in environmental philosophy. He is on the advisory board of the journal Environmental Ethics, and reviews papers submitted for publication to Environmental Ethics and to Social Theory and Practice.