Philosophy of the life sciences Environmental Policy and Ethics

I’m an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

My research is all about the life sciences: How do disciplines like biology, ecology, and conservation science manage to come to grips with the messy, chaotic, and complex phenomena that they study? How can we use findings from these sciences to solve social and environmental problems? What does the general public need to know about life science and environmental science? What does meaningful public participation in science look like?

It is important to me to connect my research to the real world. To that end I work with community science initiatives both near my home and in the Galápagos Islands.

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Email me: kkovaka [at] ucsd.edu.