On this episode I’m delighted to introduce you to another one of my old friends, Shane Epting. In his first episode of the Just Sustainability Podcast, Shane offers us a primer about philosophy of the city — the field that (I would argue) he played a central role in forming (while of course philosophers have written about cities since at least the time Plato, Shane is one of the folks who did the most to shape the landscape of the discourse about cities within contemporary philosophy).

Dr. Shane Epting is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He’s the Co-Director and co-founder of the Philosophy of the City Research Group. He’s contributed an impressive amount of scholarship on topics related to how to most equitably and effectively conceptualize cities (or municipalities), socially just community design and governance, and ethics and justice in general as they apply to built environments.

Links:

• https://www.shaneepting.org/
  
  
• https://sites.mst.edu/shaneepting/
  
  
• https://daily-philosophy.com/interview-shane-epting-philosophy-of-cities/
  
  
• https://www.potcrg.org/