Clare Palmer, BA (Hons), D.Phil

Clare Palmer is George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. She specializes in environmental and animal ethics, and in the ethics of emerging technologies. She is author or co-author of five books, including Animal Ethics in Context , Companion Animal Ethics and Wildlife Ethics: The Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation . She has also edited or co-edited a number of volumes, including Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World , a collaboration between philosophers and ecologists. She was a member of the consensus committee that produced the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine report Biotechnology and Forest Health: Possibilities and Considerations in 2019, and served as the President of the International Society of Environmental Ethics from 2007-2010. She co-authors a monthly ethics column in the Canadian Veterinary Journal, and is currently working on a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project on the Ethics of Conservation Biotechnology.