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Kate Nicole Hoffman

Kate Nicole is in her final year as a PhD Candidate.  Her interests revolve around understanding and reimagining the human-nature relationship, especially as applied to conservation, climate change, and animal ethics.  Her dissertation proposes an ameliorative project aimed at the reconceptualization of nature and naturalness.  In addition to her interests in environmental philosophy, she has worked on questions of animal consciousness, particularly on the possibiltiy of mental disorders in animals.
 
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Research Interests

Environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, climate change, animal minds/welfare
 
Other interests: music, theatre

Selected Publications

"Subjective Experience in Explanations of Animal PTSD Behavior" - Philosophical Topics 48(1): 155-175 (2020)
 
"A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation" (with Karen Kovaka) - Philosophy of Science Special Issue, 2023.
 
"Justifying Nature-based Solutions" - Biology and Philosophy (38), 2023