Recent Publications

BMJ

Association between financial links to indoor tanning industry and conclusions of published studies on indoor tanning: systematic review, BMJ

AJPH

Financial Conflicts of Interest and Stance on Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Systematic Review, AJPH

Ambio

The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting, Ambio

Current Major Projects

Industrial Epidemics

Understanding industries themselves as disease vectors

Parasitologies

Biological, Energetic, Corporate

Interspecies Politics

The political relevance of biosemiotics

Terra Communis

Indigenous land tenure and decolonizing land

Carbon Taxes

The promises and perils of incorporating pollution into prices

Philosophy

Pragmatism

Epistemologies

(e.g., Feminist, Postcolonial, Indigenous)

Ethics

Phenomenology

Biosemiotics

Interspecies Communication

Interactions between multiple simultaneous semiosic channels
5EA (embodied, embedded, extended, enacted, ecological, affective)  Cognitive Science and theories of nonhuman experience
First-Person Science and Participatory Action Research

PUBLIC HEALTH, BUSINESS ETHICS, AND BIOETHICS

Conceptions of harm reduction (i.e. the relationship between market systems and regulation)

Non-voluntary corporate accountability and environmental health

Industry Epidemics (Patterns of corporate subversion of democracy and undermining the rule of law resulting from lexically prioritizing fiduciary interests)
Corporate legitimizing strategies (such as Corporate Social Responsibility) when faced with delegitimized business practices (such as the tobacco industry’s role in the pharmaceuticalization, clinicization, and medicalization of nicotine dependency)

Philosophy

Political Theory

20th-century Political Theory (esp. German)
Democratic Theory
Theories of Action
Justice (esp. Intergenerational, Environmental, Restorative

Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Systems Theory

Complex Systems Theory (influences include: Foerster, Luhmann, Maturana & Varela, Gunderson & Holling)
Interspecies Communication
Critical Animal Studies
Critical Plant Studies

Published papers

Please visit my academia.edu profile to read a selection of published papers.