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C. Tyler DesRoches

Associate Professor of Sustainability and Human Well-Being and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University

C. Tyler DesRoches is Associate Professor of Sustainability and Human Well-Being at the School of Sustainability and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Tyler is a former President of the International Network for Economic Method. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of British Columbia, an MA in Philosophy and Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and an MA in Economics from the University of Victoria. His areas of specialization include the history and philosophy of economics, human well-being and sustainability. Formerly, Tyler was a tree planter in northern British Columbia, wildfire fighter in northern Alberta, and Forest Economist with Natural Resources Canada. He was also a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, a Founding Editor of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, and a co-Founder of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy. Tyler has published articles in many peer-reviewed journals, including the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Applied Philosophy, History of Political Economy, Synthese and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Tyler's first book (edited with Byron Williston and Frank Jankunis) is entitled, Canadian Environmental Philosophy (2019). His second book, a monograph, is entitled, Sustainability without Sacrifice: A Philosophical Analysis of Human Well-Being and Consumption (under contract with Oxford University Press).

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Sustainability and Human Well-Being and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University

Education

  • 2015 
    UBC, Philosophy