Adam Briggle
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The Fight Over Health Care for Transgender Youth
traA philosopher examines the uses of science and his love for his son amid the Texas legislature’s debate over appropriate health care for trans kids. Continue reading
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Global climate change, local hard choices
“Development” multiplies desires and transforms them into needs. But we are the ones who are under-developed – spiritually shallow, debilitated by needs, distracted by things. I wonder about climate change and children. How and when to tell them the bad… Continue reading
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Public memory, propaganda, and ethics
My colleague is trying to get his students thinking about ethics by putting forward an issue of public morals and conscience. I agree with him that this monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Denton, Texas, should be removed. I was… Continue reading
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Big Idea List for 2015
I am very happy to hear that my good brother (and graduate director) finds his new book, A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking, on the DailyBeast’s Big Idea List for 2015. Congrats, Adam Briggle! If your idea of a philosopher is… Continue reading
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‘A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking,’ by Adam Briggle – The New York Times
Adam Briggle–my friend, colleague, and PhD director–gets a nice review of his latest book from the New York Times. Really glad to see this. Many reviews closer to Texas and to PetroDollars totally mischaracterized this important book. In his investigation of… Continue reading
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Fracking and environmental (in)justice in a Texas city
Ecological Economics publishes a peer reviewed econo,if and environmental justice study of shale gas development in my hometown of Denton, Texas. The article is co-authored by my colleagues Matthew Fry, Jordan Kincaid and Adam Briggle. You can access the full text for… Continue reading
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Charting more diffuse influences across time
My colleagues Adam Briggle, Robert Frodeman and Britt Holbrook continue their work on the philosophy of impact and the impact of philosophy… Today even the humanities are expected to have an impact. In the 2014 REF, for instance, philosophy formed… Continue reading
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Precautionary – Proactionary
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle have encouraged and helped to inaugurate a preprint service at the Review and Reply Collective for the journal Social Epistemiology. The first preprint to appear is their new collaborative piece which “explores… Continue reading
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