- Associate Professor
- Elma Ryan Bornander Honors Chair Professor
- Associate Director
- Undergraduate Studies Director
Biography
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Samantha Noll is a food ethicist and agricultural policy expert, well-known for showing how food and agricultural choices matter ethically. She the Ryan-Bordander Chair and Associate Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (PPPA) at Washington State University, USA. She publishes widely on topics in food and environmental ethics and the application of emerging technologies in agriculture and is the co-author/editor of the Field Guide to Formal Logic (2020) and the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City (Routledge, 2019).
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, Michigan State University, 2016
B.A. Philosophy, West Chester University, 2008
Research
Environmental Philosophy (Food & Environmental Justice), Philosophy of Technology, Social and Political Philosophy, Food Policy
Recent Publications
- Noll, S. (2025) Ethical Omnivores: Better Eating for Everyone, New York: Routledge Press.
- Noll, S., and Z. Piso (Eds.), (2024) Paul B. Thompson’s Philosophy of Agriculture, New York: Springer.
- Noll, S. (2024) “Environmental Ethics Down on the Farm: Hargrove’s Weak Anthropocentrism and the ‘Agricultural Blindspot.’” Accepted for Publication in Environmental Ethics.
- Noll, S. and *T. Bhar. (2023) “The Five Pillars of Urban Environmental Justice: A Framework for Building Equitable Cities,” Philosophy of the City, 1(1):84-99.
- Noll, S. (2020) “Growing Resistance to Systems of Oppression: An Exploration of the Transformative Power of Urban Agriculture,” Open Philosophy, 3(1): 566-577.