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Dr. Kimberly Dill is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University's College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin (2019) and specializes in Environmental Philosophy & Ethics, Comparative Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Psychology. Her research bridges empirical environmental science and psychology with ethical frameworks, emphasizing biodiversity, wildness, and dark sky conservation. She argues that psychophysiological harms from ecological degradation necessitate ethical reevaluation of human relationships with nature.
Education: Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Texas-Austin (2019).
Her teaching includes courses such as Culture and Ideas I and II, Ethics and the Environment (Phil 29), and Environmental Philosophy & Ethics (Phil 116). Dr. Dill explores transformative moral emotions like reverence and awe as motivators for conservation, advocating reciprocal flourishing with the 'more-than-human' world.
In 2022, she collaborated with Michael Garfield on a dialogue exploring environmental philosophy's defense of wildness and natural darkness, highlighting humanity's entanglement with ecological systems.
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