Robert L. Chapman - National Council for Science and the Environment

Curriculum Vitae*
Robert L. Chapman
580 West 215th Street, Apt. 6G
New York City 10034
(212) 346-1460
(212) 942-9369
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. in Philosophy (specializations: History of Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, and Applied Ethics)
Dissertation Title: "Values Beyond Cultural: A Study in Environmental Axiology", 1992
Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, New York
MA in Philosophy (specialization: Logic—formal & informal), 1982
Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, New York
Graduate Studies in Philosophy (concentration: Logic & Greek Philosophy), 1976-1978
University of California Berkeley & Davis, California
BA in Philosophy
BA in History (minor in Classics)
The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York, 1976
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2001—Present: Director of the Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies (PIERS)
1996—Present: Coordinator of the Environmental Studies Program of the Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace
University
1992—97: New York City campus director of VIA PACE (Volunteers in Action) a program in social responsibility whose
mission is to create an atmosphere of volunteerism within the University and design and implement a service-learning
pedagogy.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997—Present: Assistant Professor and the Edward J. Mortola Scholar at Pace University
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
1987—1992 Adjunct Assistant Professor at Iona College, Department of Philosophy
1984—96 Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pace University, Pleasantville
Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
1978—1985 Adjunct Assistant Professor at Molloy College, Department of Philosophy
Courses taught and developed while at Pace University
Philosophy:
Problems in Philosophy (PHI 110)
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy (PHI 111)
Modern & Contemporary Philosophy (PHI 112)
Normative Ethics: Contemporary Moral Problems (PHI 115)
Informal Logic (PHI 152)
Symbolic Logic (PHI 205)

Environmental Ethics (PHI 223)
Contemporary Philosophy (PHI 225)
Philosophy of Religion (PHI 257)
Business Ethics (PHI 260)
Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy of Love (PHI 296)
Topics in Philosophy: Philosophical Perspectives on Technology (PHI 296)
Independent Study in Philosophy (PHI 395)
Environmental Studies:
Nature and Culture: A Study of Connections (ENV 110)
Environmental Studies I: economic, ethical, and political perspectives (ENV 111)
Environmental Studies II: basic issues (ENV 112)
The Naturalists (ENV 130)
Environmental Assessment (ENV 211)
Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics (ENV 230)
Junior Year Research Internship (ENV 380)
Senior Year Mentoring (ENV 498)
Senior Year Capstone (ENV 499)
Interdisciplinary & Service–learning:
Destination Nicaragua (INT 201N) Travel service-learning course
Albania: a country in transition (INT 201G) Travel service-learning course
Introduction to Environmental Studies (INT 198A/B)
Philosophy, Literature and the American Environment (INT 296C)
Philosophical & Literary Perspectives on Nature (INT 296I)
Hudson River and the American Tide (INT 195B)
Beats, Bongos and Buddhism: literary and philosophical perspectives on the 1950s (INT 296G)
Writing Nature: Aesthetic, Ethical and Literary Approaches (INT 197F)
The Rhetoric of Environmental Discourse (INT 197)
That’s Absurd: Existentialism in Literature & Philosophy (INT 295Z)
1987—1992 at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, Department of Philosophy
Courses Taught:
Perspectives on Knowledge
Perspectives on Values
Ethics & Business
Health Care Ethics
1978—1985 at Molloy College, Rockville Center, NY, Department of Philosophy
Course Taught:
Philosophy of God
Philosophy of Literature
Introduction to Critical Thinking
Ethical Theories
1978—1983: Teaching Fellow at Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, NY
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Classical Thought
Introduction to Modern Thought
Classical Formal Logic
Program Development
Combined Degree Program—five-year degree: Environmental Studies BA/Environmental Science MS (with Richard
Schlesinger, Biology) Approved

Combined Degree Program—five-year degree: Environmental Studies BA/Urban Planning & Restoration MS (Ned
Kaufman, Pratt Institute) resubmitted Awaiting Approval
ACADEMIC HONORS
Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence, 2007
Edward J. Mortola Scholar in Philosophy, Pace University, 1997 – Present
Visiting Scholar in Environmental Thought, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, fall 2006
Recipient of the Dyson College Endowed Fund for International Initiatives, summer 2001
Visiting Scholar in Environmental Ethics at the Hastings Center, Briarcliff, New York, spring 1991
High Pass, Ph.D. comprehensive examinations, Fordham University, 1981
Loyola Fellowship, Fordham University, 1981-1982
Teaching Fellowship, Fordham University, 1978-1981
Magna cum Laude BA, College of New Rochelle, 1976
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Creating sustainability within our midst: challenges for the 21 st century, editor, Robert Chapman (Pace University Press,
2008)
Articles (peer reviewed)
“How to Think About Environment Studies,” Journal of the Philosophy of Education, vol. 41, no. 1 (2007) 59 – 74
“Confessions of a Malthusian Restrictionist,” (Special Issue) Globalization, Immigration and Environment: Ecological
Economics, vol. 59, issue 2 (September 2006) 214 – 219
“The Eco-pre-Fix,” (Special Issue) Dialogue between Ecosocialists and Ecofeminists: Capitalism Nature Socialism, vol. 17
(4) (December 2006) 48 – 57
“Ecological Restoration Restored,” Environmental Values, vol. 15 (4) (November 2006) 463 – 478
"Crowded Solitude: Thoreau on Wildness," Environmental Philosophy, vol.1, number1 spring 2004, 58 – 72
“The Goat-stag and the Sphinx: the place of the virtues in Environmental Ethics,” Environmental Values, volume 11, no. 2
(May 2002) 129 – 144
“Thoreau Redivivus,” a review essay on No Man’s Garden: Thoreau and a new vision of civilization and nature, Daniel
Botkin (Island Press—A Shearwater Book, 2001) Capitalism Nature Socialism—A Journal of Socialist Ecology, vol. 12 (3)
(September 2001) 160-166
“Sustainable Waters and a New Grammar of Earthly Compassion: an impressionistic report on ‘The Columbia River
Watershed—A Reflection in Preparation for a Pastoral Letter’ ” International Journal of Water, volume 2, no. 1, (2001)
“Environment and Immigration: Settling the Moral Boundaries,” Environmental Values, vol. 9, no. 2 (May 2000) 189-
209.
“Settling Westchester: the value of place,” Capitalism Nature Society—A Journal of Socialist Ecology, vol. 10 (3),
(September 1999) 81-88
“No Room at the Inn, or Why Population Problems are not All Economic,” Population and Environment, vol. 21, number 1
(September 1999) 81-97.

Book Reviews
Reconnecting Lives to the Land: Agenda for a Critical Dialogue, Allison Hayes-Conroy (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2006),
Ethics, Place and the Environment (forthcoming spring 2010)
Environment & Citizenship: Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement, Mark J. Smith & Piya Pangsapa
(Zed Books, 2008), Capitalism Nature Socialism (forthcoming, spring 2010)
Character & Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, Ronald L. Sandler (Columbia
University Press, 2007), Environmental Philosophy, vol. V, issue 2 (fall 2008) pp. 180 – 184
Natural Law: an Introduction and Re-Examination, Howard P. Kainz (Open Court Press, 2004) in Vera Lex, vol. 7,
(2007) 131 – 134
Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection, Lisa H. Sideris (Columbia University Press, 2003).
viii + 311pp., bibliography, Environmental Philosophy, vol. 3, winter 2005
Public Goods, Private Goods, Raymond Geuss (Princeton University Press, 2003) Vera Lex, vol. V (new series), numbers 1
& 2, December 2004, pp. 121 – 124.
Publishers review for Broadview Press of Environmental Ethics: Linking Global Theory and Local Practice, edited by
Wellington and Greenbaum (March 2003)
No Man’s Garden: Thoreau and a new vision of civilization and nature, Daniel Botkin (Island Press—A Shearwater Book,
2001) Environmental Values, vol. 10, number 4, November 2001, pp.546-548.
The New Natural Law Theory, Russell Hittinger (University of Notre Dame Press, 1990) Vera Lex, vol. XV, numbers 1 &
2, winter 1999 (1995 issue), 87-89.
Publishers review for Catholic University Press of Bases of Ethics, ed. William Sweet (1996)
Reports, Editorials, Miscellaneous Writings
“Perspectives on Curriculum,” Proceeding of the Pace Academy for the Environment,
http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?_id=15160, April 2005
“Narratives of Place,” Proceedings of the Pace Institute for Environmental & Regional Studies, vol. 3 (February 2005)
7 – 9
Nature & Culture: A Study in Connections, 4 th edition Robert L. Chapman, editor (Island City NY, Whittier Publications
2008) Environmental Studies Reader for course ENV 110—Nature & Culture. [First edition published 2003]
"An Inquiry into Teaching Values," (Proceeding of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges &
Universities, June 2004)
"Sustainability and Place: introductory essay," Proceedings of the Pace Institute for Environmental & Regional Studies
conference, “Urban Ecology: cities in transition," vol. 2. (December 2004) 5 – 11
"Editors Introduction," Proceedings of the Pace Institute for environmental & Regional Studies conference on “Land Use:
Planning for a Sustainable and Just Future," vol. 1. February 2003 6 – 8
“Westchester is No Place,” Proceedings of the Pace Institute for Environmental & Regional Studies conference on “Land
Use: Planning for a Sustainable and Just Future," vol. 1. February 2002
“Westchester,” Westchester Environment published by Federated Conservationists of Westchester (summer vol. 4, July –
August, 2002) 6

The Gadfly and the Casuist: Ongoing Conversations in Normative Ethics 2 nd edition, an anthology edited by Harold
Brown & Robert Chapman (North Chelmsford, MA, Anthology Pro) 2001.
Report on 19 th World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Vera Lex, vol. XV, numbers 1 & 2, winter
1999 (1995 issue), 60
“IVR—99 Conference Report,” Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie, March 2000.
“The Place of Natural Law in the Greening of Philosophy,” Guest Editorial, Vera Lex, winter 1999 (1995 issue) vol. VX,
numbers 1 & 2, 30-31
Annotated bibliography, Vera Lex, vol. XV, numbers 1 & 2, winter 1999 (1995 issue), 103 – 105
Annotated bibliography, Vera Lex, New Series vol. 1, numbers 1 & 2, winter 2000, 145 – 155
Annotated bibliography, Vera Lex, New Series vol. 2, numbers 1 & 2, winter 2001, 201 – 225
Annotated bibliography, Vera Lex, New Series vol. 3, numbers 1 & 2, winter 2002, 188 – 193
Annotated Bibliography, Vera Lex, New Series vol. 6, number 1 & 2, winter 2005, 183 – 226
Annotated Bibliography, Vera Lex, New Series vol. 7, number 1 & 2, winter 2008, 87 – 109
“Environment,” Children’s Databook, vol. 1, 101 – 126 (Pace University, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences) 1993 (This
publication was made possible by a grant from the U. S. Department of Education (FIPSE))
PRESENTATIONS
• “Integrating Environmental Initiatives at Pace,” Pace Faculty Institute, panel presentation, May 16 th 2005
• “Globalization and Ethics,” Pace Active Retirement College (PARC), April 19 th 2005
• “Cost-Benefit-Analysis, Health Risk: Ethical Concerns,” New York Medical College, April 6 th 2005 (Invited speaker)
• “Multi, Inter, Trans, Meta? Overcoming Disciplinary Boundaries in Environmental Curricula,” Pace Academy for the
Environment, March 11 th 2005. Panel participant “The Role of Philosophy in Environmental Study Curriculum;” panel
moderator for Keynote conference summary
• “Integrating the Humanities and the Hudson: Research Opportunities and Initiatives for Faculty,” panel member at
Enhancing Undergraduate Environmental Education in the Hudson Valley, Marist College, October 29 – 30 2004
• "Environmental Restoration Restored," June 24, 2004 University of Toronto, CANADA
• "Globalization and Sustainability: A Study of Incongruous Counterparts," Conference on "Civil Society, Environmental
Responsibility & Sustainable Development in the United States and Brazil, June 11, 2004 Pace University
• "Teaching Values: Should We, Can We?" Conference on Higher Education and the Hudson River Valley: Meeting the
Environmental Challenge, February 23, 2004.
• "Crowded Solitude: from wilderness to wildness," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston MA.
November 8 th 2003
• "Civic Responsibility and Privilege," Keynote Address for the Center for Community Outreach, annual awards
ceremony November 5 th, 2003
• “Biotechnology: The Colonization of Life,” sponsored by the Pace Adult Resource Center, April 1, 2003

• "Free Trade," Provost's Colloquia (panelist), February 12 th 2003
• “The Role of the University in Environmental Education,” a roundtable discussion dedicated to the works of Thomas
Berry, sponsored by the Pace Academy for the Environment, December 5 th 2002
• “Ethical Foundations for the New Genetics,” Bioethics Forum VII sponsored by the Northeastern Society for in Vitro
Biology, November 12, 2002
• “Ethical Themes in Environmental Restoration,” American Museum of Natural History, August 9 th 2002, sponsored
by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
• Chaired a session on Natural Law Ethics at the seventy-fifth annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association, Albany, NY November 9 th—11th 2001. Conference theme “Person, Soul, and Immortality.”
• “Education, Ethics and the Environment,” American Museum of Natural History, August 3 rd 2001, sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
• “Research Ethics,” presented at the Lienhard School of Nursing Colloquia, sponsored by Center for Nursing Research,
Clinical Practice and International Affairs, December 2, 2000.
• “A Brief History of Environmental Ethics and its Relation to Biodiversity,” American Museum of Natural History,
August 3 rd, 2000, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
• “Ethical Issues in Biodiversity,” American Museum of Natural History, August 6 th 1999, sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation.
• “Understanding Community Concerns about Environmental Justice and Economic Development,” Environmental
Justice: Strengthening the Bridge Between Economic Development and Sustainable Communities, sponsored by the
Environmental Protection Agency and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, June 9 – 12, 1999.
• “The Future of Service-learning,” Iona College Conference on Service Learning, sponsored by the Corporation for
National Service, April 1997
• “A Model for Travel Service Learning Courses,” Pace University Conference on Service Learning, sponsored by the
Corporation for National Service, March 1996
• “Ethics and Economics,” University of Tirana, National Museum, Tirana, Albania, sponsored by the Soros Foundation,
June 1995
• “The Ecologist's Dilemma,” Conference on Environmental Education, sponsored by The Center for Applied Ethics,
Dyson College, April 1993
• “The Divine, The Human, and the Environment: the Biblical Influence on Western Attitudes Toward Nature,” The
Center for Religious Studies, Dyson College, April 1991
• “Intrinsic Value and Moral Considerability,” The Hastings Center, March 1991
Editorial Activities
Editor-in-Chief: Vera Lex—Journal of the International Natural Law Society (Annual—winter, numbers 1 & 2) 2000 --
2009
Editor-in-Chief: Proceedings—Journal of the Pace Institute of Environmental & Regional Studies (Annual—winter)
Editor: Transactions—Journal of the Society of Fellows, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences (Student/faculty undergraduate
journal, Annual—fall) 2001 – 2008

Humanities Referee for the Journal of Environment History
Humanities Referee for the Journal of Ecological Economics
Citations of my work
“How to Think About Environment Studies,” Journal of the Philosophy of Education, vol. 41, no. 1 (2007) 59 – 74
• cited in “Perspectives on Environmental Programs’ Curricular and Core Competencies,” Shirley Vincent and Will
Focht in Proposal for the National Council for Science and the Environment (July 2009)
• cited in All Education is Environmental Education, Jessica Lynn Michelle Young, Master Thesis presented to
Queens University, Kingston Ontario (2009)
“Confessions of a Malthusian Restrictionist,” (Special Issue) Globalization, Immigration and Environment: Ecological
Economics, vol. 59, issue 2 (September 2006) 214 – 219
• cited in “Immigration and Environmental Emissions: A U.S. County-level Analysis,” Jay Squalli in Population and
Environment, vol. 30 (2009) 247 – 260
“Immigration and Environment: Settling the Moral Boundaries,” Environmental Values 9 (2000)
• cited in Immigration and the Environment: Underlying Values and Scope of Analysis,” Roldan Muradian in
Ecological Economics, vol. 59, 2006
“The Goat-stage and the Sphinx: The Place of the Virtues in Environmental Ethics,” Environmental Values, Vol. 11 (2002)
• cited in “Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole, Holmes Rolston III in
Environmental Virtue Ethics, editors Ronald Sandler & Philip Cafaro (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) 75
• cited in “Human virtues and Natural Values,” Simon P. Jones, Environmental Ethics (2006)
• cited in “On a Virtue Approach to Buddhist Environmental Ethics,” W K Cheong
“No Room at the Inn, or Why Population Problems Are Not All Economic,” Population and Environment, Vol. 21, (1)
(1999)
• cited in “Finite Elements in Analysis and Design,” J. Mackerle, Population and Environment, Vol. 38 (8) 2002,
765 – 782
• cited in “Environmentally Induced Population Movements: Their Complex Sources and Consequences,” Nurit
Kliot in Environmental Change and it’s Implications for Migration, Jon D. Unruh, Maarten S. Krol and N. Kliot
(Springer, 2004)
“Immigration and Environment: Settling the Moral Boundaries,” Environmental Values, Vol. 9 (2000)
• cited in “Population and Immigration—The Hot Potato,” Val Stevens, The Campaign for Political Ecology, the
bulletin of the European Population Organisations Confederation (2000)
“Westchester is No Place,” Proceedings of the Pace Institute for Environmental & Regional Studies conference on “Land
Use: Planning for a Sustainable and Just Future," vol. 1. February 2002
• “Selective Memories, Sanitised: Constructing Visions of Future Place in Sydney,” G. Searle and J Byrne Urban
Policy & Review, vol. 20, #1 (2002)
• “Reclaiming Cultural Heritage in Singapore,” B. Yuen Urban Affairs Review (2006)
“Ecological Restoration Restored,” Environmental Values vol. 15 (4) (November 2006) 463 – 478
• cited in “Does the Idea of Wilderness Need a Defense,” P M Keeling, Environmental Values, vol 17 (4) 505 – 519
(November 2008)
• cited in “Stream Restoration in Theory and Practice A Case Study of Restored Streams in the Region of Waterloo,
Ontario”, Colin Nathan Yates
• “Renaturiesung von Okosyustemen in Metteleuropa,” Cited in “Zur ethischen Dimension von Renaturierungsokologie
und Okosystem-renaturierung,” Stefan Zerbe und Gerhard Wiegleb, 423 – 439
• Umweltethische Begrundungen und praktisches Akteursverstandnis der ion Okosystem…(2008), D. Wilken, S.
Zerbe
Grants ($400,055 awarded)

Co-authored a grant to U. S. Department of Education, Funds to Improve Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) entitled
"Community Action Research Projects" (1993) Award $144,194.
Authored a grant to the Corporation for National Service entitled "VIA PACE Education for Empowerment Program."
(1995) Award $99,970; authored two subsequent renewals for $80,973 (1996) and $50,574 (1997) respectively.
Author of a grant to the Corporation for National Service entitled “Community Education.” Award $21,200 (1997)
Author of a grant to Campus Compact entitled "Intergenerational Environmental Education." Award $3,144 (1995)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
AESS
American Philosophical Association
International Society for Environmental Ethics
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
International Society for Ecological Economics
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES
1996—Present, Chair—Environmental Studies Committee
1997—2001, Faculty Affairs
1997—1998, Dyson College Steering Committee
1997—2002, Kenan Committee
1998—2000, University Taskforce on Sustainability
1998—Present: Dyson College Curriculum Committee
1998—2002, Dyson Strategic Agenda
2000—Present, Advisory Council for International Studies
2002—2005, Chair—University Environmental Audit Committee
2005—2005, Secretary—CDFPT
2006—2006, Chair—CDFPT
2006—2008, Chair—Grievance Committee, New York Faculty Counsel
2008, Chair—Dyson College TAP Committee
2008 – 2009, Chair—Departmental Search Committee
OUTSIDE COMMITTEES & ACTIVITIES
2000—Present, International Natural Law Society Executive Committee
External reviewer for New York University—Steinhardt School of Education, MA program in Environmental Thought
November 2005
External reviewer for Fordham University's Environmental Studies Program, May 2004