Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson is an Assistant Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, affiliated with the Arts, Languages & Philosophy school. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Philosophy from DePaul University (2022), an M.A. from Concordia University (2014), and a B.A. (Honours) from the University of Alberta (2011). His research focuses on environmental ethics, responsibility, and continental philosophy, with a particular emphasis on themes of inheritance, citation, and intersubjectivity.

• Ph.D.: DePaul University, Dissertation: “Half-Lives of Responsibility: Gramsci, Derrida, and Inheritance in Environmental Ethics”
• M.A.: Concordia University, Thesis: “On Naming as Citation: The Responsibility to Name”
• B.A. (Honours): University of Alberta, Thesis: “Sartrean Intersubjectivity and the Possibility of Trust”

His work engages with thinkers like Gramsci, Derrida, and Sartre, exploring ethical dimensions of environmental responsibility and the philosophical underpinnings of trust and citation practices. He is a native speaker of French and English, with reading proficiency in Italian.