Joshua Duclos, PhD

I am an interdisciplinary philosopher specializing in moral, political, and environmental philosophy. My first book – Wilderness, Morality, and Value – was published in 2022. My writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and the popular press, including: Philosophy & Theology, Environmental Values, Studia Philosophica Estonica, Salon.com, and The Conversation. I have been a featured speaker at the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, The Breakthrough Institute, the Fulbright Association, the American Philosophical Association, NPR, and New Hampshire Humanities. I belong the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the International Society for Environmental Ethics. From 2020-2024, I was Associate Chair of the APA Committee on Pre-College Philosophy.

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Committed to student-centered education, I am an accomplished teacher at the graduate, undergraduate, and secondary level. I am currently the Form of 1923 Endowed Chair in Humanities at St. Paul’s School (USA). I see philosophy as a useful, life-enhancing activity and a civic good. As a teacher, I prioritize the close reading of great texts and the logical analysis of arguments with the aim of making the pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness accessible to – and meaningful for – all students. Dedicated to teaching across political divides, I support all efforts to safeguard free inquiry and to promote the charitable exchange of truth-seeking ideas within the academy. 

I am a former Fulbright Scholar with graduate degrees in philosophy from the University of Chicago and Boston University. Prior to entering academia, I was a research associate for UNICEF working in New York and India. I grew up among the forests and mountains of New Hampshire, and I spent five years as a senior mountain guide leading trips in the Appalachians, Cascades, Alps, and Himalayas. 

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