Associate Professor, Philosophy
Assistant Professor, Philosophy

u0405252@utah.edu

Publications

• NATURE & CULTURE | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Santana, C. (2022). The value of and in novel ecosystem(s). Biology and Philosophy, 04/01/2022
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Santana, C. (2020) “COVID-19, other zoonotic diseases and wildlife conservation.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 10/08/2020
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Santana, C. (2019). “Natural diversity.” in Casetta, Marques da Silva, and Vecchi (eds.) From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity, 09/28/2019
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Santana, C. (2018). Review of Philosophy and Climate Science. Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews., 09/22/2018
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Santana, C. forthcoming. “Book Review: Thinking Through Climate Change, by Adam Briggle.” Quarterly Review of Biology, 03/30/2022

Presentations

• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE | WATER: Philosophy of Science Association: Deep sediments; shallow time, 11/14/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Public Philosophy Network: Invasion biology and conservation decision-making , 10/23/2021
• NATURE & CULTURE | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Global Change and Sustainability Center Seminar Series: Whose Anthropocene? , 09/28/2021
• NATURE & CULTURE | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Philosophy in the Wild: Novel ecosystems—a 'license to trash nature,' or the tool we need to naturalize trash?, 07/19/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Philosophy in the City: Sanctuary Cities—Managing immigrant wildlife in the urban ecosystem , 05/07/2021
• NATURE & CULTURE | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: LSE Conjectures and Refutations: Landfills deserve love, too, 11/03/2020
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Digital Matters Research Symposium: Whose Anthropocene, 09/01/2020
• FOOD SYSTEMS: Stegner Center Annual Symposium: Panel on Local solutions on the Wasatch Front, 03/20/2020
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Guy F. Atkinson Distinguished Lecture Series: Whose Anthropocene?, 02/13/2020
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Workshop on Experimental Philosophy of Science: Experimenting on scientific corpora, 10/15/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Philosophy of the City: Against ecological nativism in the urban community, 10/03/2019
• NATURE & CULTURE | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | AIR QUALITY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Park City Film Series Panel: “Anthropocene: the Human Epoch”, 09/25/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology: Restoration, Regeneration, and Novel Ecosystems, 07/10/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: 11th Barcelona Workshop, Issues in Conceptual Ethics: Are housecats and pigeons ‘native species’ in the urban ecosystem—Re-engineering scientific concepts to deal with global change, 05/31/2019
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Killing cats to save finches: perspectives on invasive species and conservation ethics: A consideration of the place of “native species” and “invasive species” in urban ecology , 03/16/2019
• NATURE & CULTURE | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Simpson Center for the Humanities Seminar: A conversation about biodiversity in the Anthropocene, 11/01/2018
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE | WATER: Utah Environmental Humanities Seminar: Waiting for the Anthropocene, 10/25/2018
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | CLIMATE CHANGE | WATER: Diverse Voices in Philosophy, Stanford: Waiting for the Anthropocene, 05/12/2017

Awards

• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Environmental Humanities Professor 2017-2018, Environmental Humanities Program, University of Utah, 08/20/2017