Interpreting Nature – The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

Martin Drenthen is associate professor of philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He is the coeditor of Old World and New World Pespective in Environmental Philosophy (Springer 2014), Environmental Aesthetics (Fordham Univ Press 2014) and New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity (Springer 2009). He has written about the significance of Nietzsche's critique of morality for environmental ethics, on ecological restoration, ethics of place, rewilding, wolf resurgence, and environmental hermeneutics.

Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an "earthy" hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy.

David Utsler is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies. His current areas of research focus on hermeneutics, critical theory, and their application to environmental philosophy. He has published essays in environmental hermeneutics and presented several conference papers on environmental hermeneutics and environmental justice. He is currently working on a manuscript (along with Robert Melchior Figueroa of UNT) on the application of hermeneutics to environmental justice studies and activism.