:Robert Frodeman
{{Short description|American philosopher}}
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| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
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| alma_mater = Penn State University
| thesis_title = Heidegger and Proper Place of Thought
| thesis_year = 1988
| school_tradition = Continental philosophy
| doctoral_advisor = Alphonso Lingis
| academic_advisors = Stanley Rosen
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Robert Frodeman is former Professor and former chair, Dept of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, previously at the University of Colorado, and Director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity. He publishes in the philosophy of geology, the philosophy of interdisciplinarity, and practical philosophy. Frodeman is now a writer and consultant living in Hoback, Wyoming.
Education
Frodeman attended St. Louis University, where he gained degrees in History and Philosophy (1981), Pennsylvania State University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy (1988), studying with Stanley Rosen and Alphonso Lingis, and the University of Colorado, where he was awarded a M.S. degree while studying at INSTAAR.{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertfrodeman.com/bio|title = Bio}}
From 1993 to 2001 Frodeman consulted for the US Geological Survey on questions of science policy, giving lectures to USGS field offices around the country.{{Cite web|url=http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/ogmius/archives/issue_3/ogmius_news.html|title = Ogmius Newsletter :: Center for Science and Technology Policy Research}} In 2001–2002, he was the Hennebach Professor of the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines; in 2005 he was the ESRC Fellow at Lancaster University in England.{{Cite web|url=http://i3.cybershare.utep.edu/drrobertfrodemandistinguishedspeakerseries|title=Dr. Robert Frodeman - Distinguished Speaker Series | i3.cybershare.utep.edu}} In 2016 Frodeman served as a member on an Expert Committee on Altmetrics for the European Commission.Wilsdon, James & Bar-Ilan, Judit & Frodeman, Robert & Lex, Elisabeth & Peters, Isabella & Wouters, Paul. (2017) Since retiring he has written on environmental questions in the American West. In 2023 Frodeman was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Turku in Finland. {{Cite web|url=https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/opinion/guest_shot/we-re-shooting-mountain-goats-in-a-national-park-do-we-know-why/article_03e50ec0-b728-5fd1-a351-7a4400dd6ff9.html|title = We're shooting mountain goats in a national park. Do we know why?| date=28 October 2020 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/opinion/guest_shot/park-challenges-keep-growing-steeper/article_4df6f300-f2ed-5cd6-b38a-de9bfe9850e8.html|title = Park challenges keep growing steeper| date=December 2021 }}
Bibliography
- {{cite book| last =Frodeman | first =R.| title =Earth Matters: The Earth Sciences, Philosophy, And The Claims Of Community.| publisher =Prentice Hall| year =2000| location =Upper Saddle River, NJ.| isbn =978-0-13-011996-4}}
- {{cite book| last =Frodeman | first =R.| title =Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground Between Philosophy And The Earth Sciences.| publisher =State University of New York Press | year =2003| location =Albany| isbn =978-0-7914-5601-9 }}
- {{cite book| last =Foltz| first =B.V.|author2=Frodeman, R. | title =Rethinking Nature: Essays In Environmental Philosophy.| publisher =Indiana University Press| year =2004| location =Bloomington, Ind.| isbn =978-0-253-34440-3 }}
- {{cite book| last =Callicott| first =B.|author2=Frodeman, R. | title =Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy.| publisher =Cengage| year =2008| location =Detroit, MI.| isbn =978-0-02-866137-7 }}
- {{cite book| editor-last =Frodeman | editor-first =R. |display-editors=etal| title =Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity Sustainable Knowledge.| publisher =Oxford University Press| year =2010}}
- {{cite book| last =Frodeman | first =R.| title =Sustainable Knowledge: a theory of interdisciplinarity.| publisher =Palgrave MacMillan| year =2014}}
- {{cite book| last =Frodeman | first =R. |author2=Briggle, A. | title =Socrates Tenured: the institutions of 21st Century Philosophy.| publisher =Rowman & Littlefield| year =2016}}
- {{cite book| last =Frodeman | first =R. | title =Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science.| publisher =Routledge| year =2019}}
- {{cite book| last =Brister | first =E. |author2=Frodeman, R. | title =A Guide to Field Philosophy.| publisher =Routledge| year =2020}}
- {{cite book| last =Frodeman | first =R. | title =Interdisciplinarity and the Dilemmas of Knowledge', in : Bridging Research Disciplines to Advance Animal Welfare Science: A practical guide.| publisher =CABI Publishing| year =2021}}
- {{cite book| last =Frodeman | first =R. | title =A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits. | publisher =University of Utah Press| year =2024}}
References
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- {{cite news| last =Monaghan| first =Peter| title =Earth Sciences Through the Lens of Humanities, Arts, and Theology| work =The Chronicle of Higher Education| date =2003-04-18| url =http://chronicle.com/subscribe/login?url=/weekly/v49/i32/32a02002.htm| accessdate =2007-11-06}}
- {{cite news| last =Briggle, Frodeman| title =Wanted: a future for philosophy| work =The Chronicle of Higher Education| date =2014-07-16| url =http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/16/wanted-a-future-for-philosophy| accessdate =2014-08-03}}
- {{cite news| last =Frodeman, Briggle| title =When Philosophy Lost its Way| work =New York Times| date =2016-01-11| url =https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/when-philosophy-lost-its-way/?_r=0| accessdate =2021-04-09}}
External links
- [https://www.robertfrodeman.com Personal website]
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