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 focuses on the life sciences: biology, ecology, environmental conservation, and forestry. I study disagreements among researchers in these fields, as well as what happens when the science becomes socially or politically controversial. By improving our understanding of how and why people disagree about science, the goal of my research is to help science become better at solving human problems, especially problems of environmental policy and management.

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Email me: kkovaka [at] ucsd.edu.