Jason Farr
Jason Farr is a philosopher and Assistant Teaching Professor at the Earth Commons.
He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law from the University of Virginia.
Jason’s research lies at the intersection of metaethics and environmental ethics. He aims to uncover the social and environmental foundations of human ethical standpoints, focusing especially on their socio-environmental structural features and social coordinating functions. Despite the theoretical nature of this work, Jason aims to draw from it practical, ethical lessons for building and shaping contemporary social systems and structures in response to pressing ethical issues, including environmental crises like climate change.
He currently teaches courses in environmental ethics and philosophy, including the foundational environmental ethics course for the B.S. in Environment and Sustainability. He is a Senior Fellow at Ethics Lab, where he has served as educational director for the Lab’s postdoctoral program and co-lead of the Embedded Ethics program, which integrates ethics lessons and activities into courses in environmental science, computer science, data science, and public policy.
Before joining the Earth Commons, Jason worked at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, where he taught environmental and technology ethics, contributed to curricular development for Georgetown’s Tech, Ethics, and Society program and the B.S. in Environment and Sustainability, and developed translational ethics guidance for nonprofits and technology organizations.Outside of the university, Jason serves as Vice President of the Nature Camp Foundation and teaches botany each year at Nature Camp’s Adult Session.