Adam Briggle

• Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder (2006)
• Ethics and Policy of Science and Technology; Energy, Climate, and the Environment; Field and Public Philosophy; and Transgender Philosophy and Bioethics.

Adam Briggle is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in our Department. He holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado and served as a postdoctoral fellow in the philosophy of technology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of ethics and policy with science and technology. He serves on the UNT Faculty Senate and the Governing Board of the Public Philosophy Network. He is author or co-author of several books:

Briggle, Adam. 2010. A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council. University of Notre Dame Press.

Briggle, Adam, and Carl Mitcham. 2012. Ethics and Science: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.

Briggle, Adam. 2015. A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking.  Liveright Press.  

Frodeman, Robert, and Adam Briggle. 2016. Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st Century Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield. 

Briggle, Adam. 2021. Thinking through Climate Change: A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene. Palgrave.

Briggle, Adam. 2024. A Field Guide to Climate Change: Understanding the Problems. Broadview Press.