Former Summer Fellow Duclos Interviewed on Morality of Hunting on NPR

Joshua Duclos, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a wide-ranging interview for NPR affiliate Wisconsin Public Radio about the morality of hunting. Duclos identified three rationales for hunting — therapeutic, subsistence, and sport — and discussed various ideological objections to, and support for, hunting. He also took questions from the audience over the course of the nearly hour-long interview. Click here to listen to the interview.

In October, Duclos participated in a Pardee Center seminar exploring the challenges for conservation and wildlife management in suburban areas, specifically focusing on the controversies surrounding deer management across Massachusetts.

Duclos’ dissertation focuses on the meaning and value of wilderness in environmental ethics. This past summer as a Graduate Summer Fellow at the Pardee Center, he studied the ethics of wilderness preservation and the welfare of wildlife. He teaches philosophy courses in ethics, logic, and politics.