Research
My research is focused on environmental philosophy, broadly construed to include environmental ethics, aesthetics, politics, and metaphysics. My current research focuses on technology and environmental issues of the future, especially the challenge that novel objects of moral consideration, like Mars, bring to bear on how we engage in moral theorizing.
Publications
“Environmental Character and Astroethics.” Forthcoming. In Geoethics and Environmental Protection in Space, edited by Tony Milligan, Oskari Sivula, and Mikko Puumala. Switzerland: Springer.
Book Review: Erika Nesvold. Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023. 2025. Journal of Moral Philosophy. 22 (05-06): 717-720. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-22050605
"Mars and the Value of Wilderness." 2024. Ethics & the Environment. 29 (1): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.2979/een.00002
"Space Debris: Litter or Pollution?" 2024. Diálogos. 114: 195–226. https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/dialogos/article/view/21263
“Aesthetics, Olfaction, & Environment." 2022. In Theoretical Perspectives on Smell, edited by Andreas Keller and Benjamin D. Young. London, UK: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003207801-6/aesthetics-olfaction-environment-michael-aaron-lindquist
Book Review: Brian Patrick Green. Space Ethics, London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2021. 2023. Environmental Values. 32 (1): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327123X16702350862700
“Astroethics and the Non-Fungibility Thesis.” 2022. Environmental Ethics. 44 (3): 221-246. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics202271542
Book Review: Robin Attfield. Environmental Thought: A Short History, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2021. 2021. Environmental Values. 30 (6): 786–788. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327121X16328186623814
“Aesthetics at the Intersection of the Species Problem and De-Extinction Technology.” 2020. Environmental Values. 29 (5): 605–624. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327120X15868540131260
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Works in Progress
“Smelling the Good Life”
This paper explores the role of smell can play in different conceptions of the good life, looking at different models of hedonism, desire satisfaction theory, and a variety of objective list theories. Looking specifically at what values smelling qua engaged, directed sniffing reveals, I focus on the values of slowness and collective deliberation in the consumption of food and drink.
“Planetary Parks & GIS”
Collaborating with physical geographers, we are working on using the tools of GIS to expand on previous proposals for planetary parks, adding further definition to the proposal from my “Mars and the Value of Wilderness” (2024) while engaging map data of Mars. This paper explores the construction of protected areas of Mars with real attention to the physical features of the planet.
“Planetary Parks and Leave No Trace”
Looking further at planetary parks, and engagement with the Martian surface more generally, this paper interrogates the Leave No Trace principles for their potential application to the Martian surface while engaging discourses around the principles more generally.