Nicolas Delon

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies - Environmental Studies - Humanities - Interdisciplinary Programs - Philosophy

Nicolas Delon
  • Phone: (941) 487-4276
  • Email: ndelon@ncf.edu
  • Office Location: ACE 303
  • Mail Location: ACE 116
Ph.D, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
MA, BA: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Ecole normale supérieure, Paris

Office hours: https://ndelon.youcanbook.me/


Personal webpage: nicolasdelon.com

Professor Delon works primarily in ethics, with a focus on animal and environmental ethics. His research interests also include moral psychology, experimental philosophy, social, political, and legal philosophy, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.

Course Offerings

  • Environmental Ethics
  • Animal Minds

Selected Publications

  • Delon N, Purves D (2018), Wild animal suffering is intractable, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 31(2): 239-260
  • Purves D, Delon N (2018), Meaning in the lives of humans and other animals, Philosophical Studies, 175(2): 317-338
  • Jacquet, J, Delon, N (2016), The values behind calculating the value of trophy hunting, Conservation Biology, 30(4): 910-1 [reply to Naidoo et al. 2016]
  • Delon, N (2016). Un Singer peut-il en remplacer un autre ? Klêsis, 32: 150-90
  • Delon, N (2014), Moral status, final value, and extrinsic properties, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 114(3): 371-9
  • Delon, N (2013), Pour une éthique animale descriptive, Klêsis, 27: 118-54