Nicolas Delon
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Education
Ph.D, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
MA, BA: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Professor Delon works primarily in animal ethics and environmental ethics. His research interests also include metaethics, psychology, social, political, and legal philosophy, and Nietzsche.
Recent Courses
Philosophy of Mind
Food, Animals, and the Environment
Environmental Ethics
Climate Change: Philosophy, Politics, Economics
The Good Life
Recent News
New College Professor Discusses Our Relationship with Animals
Selected Publications
Delon, N (2022) Strangers to ourselves: a Nietzschean challenge to the badness of suffering. Inquiry, DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2021.2018357
Delon, N (2020) Pervasive Captivity and Urban Wildlife. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 23:2, 123-143, DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848173
Delon N, Purves D (2018), Wild animal suffering is intractable. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 31(2): 239-260, DOI: 10.1007/s10806-018-9722-y
Purves D, Delon N (2018), Meaning in the lives of humans and other animals. Philosophical Studies, 175(2): 317-338, DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0869-6
Delon N (2016) The Replaceability Argument in the Ethics of Animal Husbandry. In: Thompson P., Kaplan D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_512-1
Delon, N (2014), Moral Status, Final Value, and Extrinsic Properties. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 114(3): 371-379. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2014.00379.x