Recent Publications

Association between financial links to indoor tanning industry and conclusions of published studies on indoor tanning: systematic review, BMJ

Financial Conflicts of Interest and Stance on Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Systematic Review, AJPH

The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting, Ambio

Current Major Projects

1. Industrial Epidemics – understanding industries themselves as disease vectors
2. Parasitologies: Biological, Energetic, Corporate
3. Interspecies Politics -the political relevance of biosemiotics
4. Terra Communis – indigenous land tenure and decolonizing land
5. Carbon Taxes – the promises and perils of incorporating pollution into prices

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M a i n  D i s c i p l i n e s

Philosophy

• Pragmatism
• Epistemologies (e.g., Feminist, Postcolonial, Indigenous)
• Ethics
• Phenomenology

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Public Health, Business Ethics, and Bioethics

• Conceptions of harm reduction (i.e. the relationship between market systems and regulation)
• Corporate legitimizing strategies (such as Corporate Social Responsibility) when faced with delegitimized business practices (such as the tobacco industry’s role in the pharmaceuticalization, clinicization, and medicalization of nicotine dependency)
• Industry Epidemics (Patterns of corporate subversion of democracy and undermining the rule of law resulting from lexically prioritizing fiduciary interests)
• Non-voluntary corporate accountability and environmental health

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Political Theory

• 20th century Political Theory (esp. German)
• Democratic Theory
• Theories of Action
• Justice (esp. Intergenerational, Environmental, Restorative)

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Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Systems Theory

• Complex Systems Theory (influences include: Foerster, Luhmann, Maturana & Varela, Gunderson & Holling)
• Interspecies Communication
• Critical Animal Studies
• Critical Plant Studies

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Biosemiotics

• Interspecies Communication
• Interactions between multiple simultaneous semiosic channels
• 5EA (embodied, embedded, extended, enacted, ecological, affective)  Cognitive Science and theories of nonhuman experience
• First-Person Science and Participatory Action Research

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Please visit my academia.edu profile to read a selection of published papers.