Ned Hettinger

Emeritus Professor

Ned Hettinger retired from teaching at the College in 2016. His research focus is environmental philosophy. He splits his time between homes on Sullivans Island, South Carolina and in Bozeman, Montana.

Education

• 1985 - Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
• 1975 - B.A., Economics and Philosophy, Denison University

Research Interests

• Environmental ethics
• Environmental aesthetics

Publications

• “Aesthetics and Environmental Protection” in The Routledge Handbook of Nature and Environmental Aesthetics, ed. by Glenn Parsons, Ned Hettinger, and Sandra Shapshay (2026), pp.337-350.
•  "Lawbreaking and Ecoterrorism," in Benjamin Hale, Andrew Light, and Lydia Lawhon, eds., The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, 1st Edition (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022), pp. 794-806.
• "Age of Man Environmentalism and Respect for an Independent Nature," Ethics, Policy, and Environment (2021), April 21:  https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2021.1904529
• "Understanding and Defending the Preference for Native Species," in Bernice Bovenkerk and Jozef Keulartz, eds., Animals in Our Mindst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropoence (New York, NY, NY: Springer, 2021), pp. 399-424 (open access).  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_22
• “Evaluating Positive Aesthetics” Journal of Aesthetic Education 51, 3 (Fall 2017): 26-41. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jaesteduc.51.3.0026
• “Valuing Naturalness in the Anthropocene: Now More than Ever,” in Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth, ed. by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, and Tom Butler (Washington, DC: c, May 2014), pp. 174-179.
• "Objectivity in Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment," in Allen Carlson and Sheila Lintott, eds., Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Duty to Beauty (New York: Columbia University Press, March 2008), pp. 413-37.
• "Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness," Environmental Ethics 21, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 3-21 (coauthor, Bill Throop, Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Green Mountain College).  https://www.pdcnet.org/enviroethics/content/enviroethics_1999_0021_0001_0003_0021?file_type=pdf
• "Patenting Life: Biotechnology, Intellectual Property, and Environmental Ethics," Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 22, no. 2 (Winter 1995): 267-305. https://hettingern.people.charleston.edu/Hettinger%20-%20Patenting%20Life.pdf
• "Justifying Intellectual Property," Philosophy and Public Affairs 18, no. 1 (Winter 1989): 31-52.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/2265190