O'Neill Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences

100 Malloy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-7523
Email: Kristin.Shrader-Frechette.1@nd.edu
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette (Ph.D. Notre Dame, 1972) works on environmental ethics and policy, environmental justice, quantitative risk assessment (especially of nuclear threats), philosophy of science, and normative ethics. In addition to her philosophy degree, she holds a degree in mathematics and has done post-docs in biology, economics, and hydrogeology. Author of 280 articles and 14 books, she has done bro bono environmental-justice work with Appalachians, Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans throughout the US, and has served as advisor (often on nuclear, or environmental-justice, problems) to the UN, WHO, WCC, several foreign governments, the US Congress, and the US President. The first female president of the Risk Assessment and Policy Association (RAPA), the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), and the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE), she has served on many boards/committees of the US National Academy of Sciences. Her work appears in philosophy journals as well as science, and policy, journals. Since 1982, her research has been funded continuously by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She has been a fellow of the Kroc Institute since 1999. Dr. Shrader-Frechette's latest book is Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Recent Publications by Kristin Shrader-Frechette

With Lars Persson, “Ethical Problems in Radiation Protection,” Swedish Radiation Protection Society Reports 11 (2001) [full-text available at http://www.ssi.se/english/index.shtml. [Abstract]

 

Complete CV

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