Colin Weaver

Colin Weaver is a Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he also received his M.A. He received his B.A. from St. Olaf College. His research and teaching interests include religion and environmental ethics, the ethics of difference, and Anglo-American philosophy of religion. Colin’s dissertation, “Beyond Conversion: Moral Imagination and Conceptual Pluralism on an Ecologically Damaged Planet,” critically and constructively engages environmental philosophers, scholars of religion, and post-humanists on the question, How should we relate to people with vastly different conceptualizations of nonhuman nature from our own? He suggests that an adequate response must involve an answer to a prior question: How should we conceive of the moral lives that others share with the nonhuman? Drawing on ordinary language philosophy, Colin develops an answer to the latter question, which illuminates overlooked responses to the former. Colin’s project is being co-advised by Professors Sarah E. Fredericks and Richard B. Miller.