This page has links to some of Ian Werkheiser’s academic and non-academic writing. For more academic publications, visit his CV page.
Academic
Books
- Forthcoming 2027. Finding Our Place in the Digital World: Philosophical Essays on Technology, Phenomenology, and the Environment Springer Publishing.
- 2026. Environmental Justice in Digital Worlds: The Philosophy of Mixed Reality Technologies. Oxford University Press
- Ian Werkheiser and Zachary Piso. 2017. Food Justice in US and Global Contexts: Bringing Theory and Practice Together. Part of The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF) book series for Springer Publishing.
Some Selected Articles
2024. The Promise in Disasters: Reducing Epistemic Deficits of Food Systems for Sustainability. In Zachary Piso and Samantha Noll (eds). Paul B. Thompson’s Philosophy of Agriculture: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food pp. 103-113.
2023. Ian Werkheiser and Michael Butler (editors) 2023. “Digital Worlds” special issue of Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology 27.2
2023. Ian Werkheiser and Michael Butler. Reality, Attention, and Sociality: Towards a Philosophy of Digital Worlds. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology 27.2
2023. Kevin Elliott and Ian Werkheiser. A Framework for Transparency in Precision Livestock Farming. Animals 13.18.
2020. A Right to Understand Injustice: Epistemology and the “Right to the Truth” in International Human Rights Discourse. The Southern Journal of Philosophy 58.1: 186-199.
2020. Technology and responsibility: a discussion of underexamined risks and concerns in Precision Livestock Farming. Animal Frontiers 10.1: 51-57.
2018. Precision Livestock Farming and Farmers’ Duties to Livestock. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-018-9720-0.
2017. Loss of epistemic self-determination in the Anthropocene. Ethics, Policy & Environment, pp.1-12.
2016. Individual and Community Identity in Food Sovereignty in Mary Rawlinson (ed.) Handbook of Food Ethics. New York, NY: Routledge Press.
2016. Developing Community Epistemic Capacities Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. 5(2): 97-101.
2016. Zachary Piso, Ian Werkheiser, Samantha Noll, Christina Leshko. Sustainability of What? Recognizing the Diverse Values that Sustainable Agriculture Works to Sustain. Environmental Values. 25(2): 195-214.
2015. Community Epistemic Capacities. Social Epistemology. 30(1): 25-44.
2015. Ian Werkheiser, Zachary Piso. People Work to Sustain Systems: A Framework for Understanding Sustainability. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 141(12).
2015. Fighting Nature: An Analysis and Critique of Breed-Specific Flourishing Arguments for Dog Fights. Society & Animals. 23(5): 502-520.
2014. Food Sovereignty, Health Sovereignty, and Self-Organized Community Viability. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review. 15(2/3): 134-146.
2014. Ian Werkheiser, Samantha Noll. From Food Justice to a Tool of the Status Quo: Three Sub-movements Within Local Food. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 27(2): 201-210.
2014. Asking for Reasons as a Weapon: Epistemic Justification and the Loss of Knowledge. Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics. 2(1): 173-190.
2013. Domination and Consumption: an Examination of Veganism, Anarchism, and Ecofeminism. Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture. 8: 2. pp. 135-160.
Some Selected Non-Academic
Essays
Livestock Participating in Their Own Welfare: The Risks and Promise of Precision Livestock Farming. Eursafe News
Philosophy: Rethinking Land Use and Ethics in Newcomb. The Adirondack Almanack
Killer Coke. Z Magazine
You’re Right, You Are Nothing Alike. Left Hook Magazine*
The Pressure’s on Coca-Cola. IndyKids
Nationalism and Aggression in Japan: The US Model. Dissident Voice
The Draft. Swans Commentary
Big in Japan. Kansai Scene*
Fiction
Variations. Asimov’s Science Fiction*
The President. Swans Commentary
*Note: Some of these articles are no longer being hosted by the publishers online, so I’m hosting them here on my site. Ah, the perils of publishing online!
