Food for Thought with Ryan Darr

Join us for a ‘Food for Thought’ event over lunch with Dr. Ryan Darr. Ryan is Assistant Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment. His research interests include environmental ethics, multispecies justice, structural injustice, ethical theory, and the history of religious and philosophical ethics. Ryan’s publications can be found in Journal of Religious Ethics, Studies in Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and Environmental Ethics. His first book, The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialism, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2023. The book offers a new, robustly theological story of the origin of consequentialism, one of the most influential views in modern moral theory. It uses the new historical account to intervene in contemporary ethical debates about consequentialism and about how ethicists conceive of goods, ends, agency, and causality. Prior to joining the YDS faculty, Ryan held postdoctoral fellowships at the Princeton University Center for Human Values (2019-22) and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (2022-24).

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