Tyler DesRoches

Tyler.Desroches@asu.edu
480-727-3273

School of Sustainability

Asst Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5502

Lincoln Center Applied Ethics

Lincoln Center Affiliated Faculty
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5502

SHPRS Philosophy Faculty

Assistant Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5502

Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability

Asst Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5502

Sustainability Scientists and Scholars

Senior Sustainability Scholar
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
5502

Biography

C. Tyler DesRoches is assistant professor of sustainability and human well-being at the School of Sustainability and assistant professor of philosophy at the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of British Columbia and his areas of specialization include the history and philosophy of economics, human well-being and sustainability. Formerly, DesRoches was a forest economist with Natural Resources Canada and a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He is a a founding member of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy, a founding editor of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, and he has published articles in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Policy & Environment, History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 

Education

  • Ph.D. Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada 2015
  • M.A. Philosophy and Economics  (Cum Laude), Erasmus University-Rotterdam, Netherlands 2009
  • M.A. Economics, University of Victoria, Canada 2004
  • B.Comm. Economics (honors), Saint Mary's University 2002
www.tylerdesroches.com

Research Interests

Trained as a philosopher and economist, I am a sustainability scholar whose interdisciplinary research focuses on the relation between sustainability and human well-being. In general, I approach this topic as a philosophically informed social scientist. As the only humanities faculty member with a tenure home at the School of Sustainability, my unique role is to help bridge the gap between sustainability science and the humanities. To perform this role, my research consists of an independent research agenda on sustainability and well-being, and I also have several on-going collaborative research projects on cognate topics, such as health & well-being, energy & well-being, food & well-being, environmental philosophy, and the nature of interdisciplinary science during the Anthropocene. My collaborators, at ASU and beyond, come from a wide range of disciplines, including ecology, engineering, mathematics, environmental history, history and philosophy of science, and environmental philosophy.

Publications

http://www.tylerdesroches.com/publications.html

 

Teaching Website

http://www.tylerdesroches.com/teaching.html

Courses

Spring 2018
Course Number Course Title
SOS 310 Equity, Justice & Sustainblity
PHI 591 Seminar
SOS 591 Seminar
HPS 591 Seminar
SOS 790 Reading and Conference
SOS 792 Research
Fall 2017
Course Number Course Title
SOS 792 Research
Summer 2017
Course Number Course Title
SOS 310 Equity, Justice & Sustainblity
Spring 2017
Course Number Course Title
HST 308 Hist & Phil of Sustainability
SOS 309 Hist & Phil of Sustainability
PHI 322 Hist & Phil of Sustainability
Fall 2016
Course Number Course Title
SOS 310 Equity, Justice & Sustainblity
SOS 591 Seminar
PHI 591 Seminar
HPS 591 Seminar
Summer 2016
Course Number Course Title
SOS 593 Applied Project
Spring 2016
Course Number Course Title
SOS 310 Equity, Justice & Sustainblity

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