Directors

Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara have been working closely together for many years on the practice and theory of the ethics of nature conservation. Campagna was long-time conservation scientist and activist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and founder and director of the Sea and Sky project in Patagonia. Guevara is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz, and has taught and published widely in ethics for many years, including environmental ethics and moral psychology, and also in the history of philosophy, especially Kant. Their recent work together, Speaking of Forms of Life: The Language of Conservation lays out the vision and guiding standard for conversation of species, based on the language—familiar to us all— that makes it possible for us to identify and describe living things, and to represent what it means for them to flourish.