Steven Vogel, who holds an A.B. from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University, was a member of the Philosophy Department at Denison from 1984 until his retirement in 2022. He taught courses in Continental philosophy, environmental philosophy, social and political philosophy, 19th-century philosophy, and logic, as well as seminars on Heidegger, “Rawls and his critics,” and Hegel and Marx. His research focuses on environmental philosophy, the work of Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School, and Marxism. He is the author of Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature (MIT Press, 2015) and Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory (SUNY Press, 1996), and has also published articles in Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, Philosophy Today, Rethinking Marxism, Social Theory and Practice, Tikkun, Dissent, and elsewhere. In 2003 he was awarded the Charles A. Brickman Award for Teaching Excellence at Denison.
Works
Selected Publications
- Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature, 2015
- Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory, 1996
- “‘What Do We Want the Environment to Be?’ Critical Developments of Steven Vogel’s Philosophy” Special Issue of Environmental Ethics, 2024
- “Maintenance and the Humanness of Infrastructure,” in Mark Thomas Young and Mark Coeckelbergh, eds., Maintenance and the Philosophy of Technology, 2024
- “Doing Without Nature: On Interpretation and Practice” (Environmental Philosophy, 2018)
- “Alienation and the Commons,” in Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, eds., Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change, 2012
- On Nature and Alienation in Andrew Biro, ed., Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises, 2011
- The Silence of Nature (Environmental Values, 2006)
- The Nature of Artifacts (Environmental Ethics, 2003)
- Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature (Environmental Ethics, 2002)
- Nature as Origin and Difference (Philosophy Today, 1999)
- Grades and Money (Dissent, 1997)
Other
- Maria Theresa Barney Professor of Philosophy, 2021 - 2022
- John and Christine Warner Professor, 2016 - 2019
- Brickman – Shannon Professor, 2010 - 2014
- Chair of the Faculty, 2015 - 2016
- Charles A. Brickman Award for Teaching Excellence, 2003
