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Edward Abplanalp was born in Pittsburgh, PA and did his undergraduate work at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. There he received a B.A. in Mathematics in 1990, a B.A. in Geography in 1992, and a B.A. in Philosophy in 1995. He moved to Nebraska in order to pursue graduate studies in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. There he received an M.A. in Philosophy in 2001, and hopes to complete his Ph.D. this year. His area of specialization is ethics, and his dissertation is an extension of Rawlsian political liberalism into the realm of normative environmental philosophy. Edward is also an adjunct lecturer in Philosophy at The College of Saint Mary, and Metropolitan Community College.

Recent Presentations:

• “Outline of an Ecocentric Decision Procedure,” at Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World—a conference organized by the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, hosted at the University of Oregon – Eugene (June 2008)
• "Our Environmental Crises," presented at the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association, hosted by the University of North Texas - Denton (April 2007)
• "Nussbaum, on Rawls, on Disability" at the 62nd Annual Conference of the Iowa Philosophical Society, Iowa State University (September 2006)
• "Rawlsian Political Liberalism and Environmental Discourse" presented at Globalization, Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Justice, An International Conference, organized by the Lyman Briggs School of Science, Michigan State University (August 2006)
• "Nature and the Nature of Capitalism" presented at the Radical Philosophy Association's Group Session: Capitalism and Globalization, at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL. (April 2006)
• "Preferential Treatment and the Demands of Fair Competition" at the 10th Annual National People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions Conference, sponsored by the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (November 2005)
• "Kant's Anthropocentrism" at the 57th Northwest Conference on Philosophy, hosted at Seattle University (October 2005)
• "A Biocentric Conception of International Right" at the Global Studies Association's North American Annual Conference "Crosscurrents of Global Social Justice: Class, Gender, and Race" at the University of Tennessee (May 2005)
• "George W. Bush vs. the Natural Environment" at the Radical Philosophy Association's 6 th Biannual Conference "Philosophy Against Empire" held at Howard University, Washington, D.C. (November 2004)
• "Edward Abbey, Revisited" at the 2004 Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, hosted at the University of Alaska - Anchorage (March 2004)
• "A Moral Defense of Eco-Sabotage" given at the Fourteenth North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community, organized and sponsored by Empire State College (SUNY), Saratoga Springs, NY (February 2004)

Edward is a member of The American Philosophical Association, The International Society for Environmental Ethics, and The International Association for Environmental Philosophy.

His personal website can be found at http://philosophered.com