{{Short description|British political philosopher}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} '''Elizabeth Blanche Cripps''' is a British political philosopher. She is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her research addresses environmental philosophy, including questions around climate change, population and parenting, environmental ethics, environmental politics, and environmental justice.
==Career== From 1995–9, Cripps studied at St John's, University of Oxford, initially reading Maths and philosophy, and then Politics, philosophy, and Economics.<Ref name="CV"/> She subsequently worked as a journalist, both freelance and for the Financial Times Group.<Ref name="CV"/><ref name="Edinburgh"/> She returned to academia in 2003,<ref name="Edinburgh"/> undertaking an MPhil (2003–05) and PhD (2005–08) in philosophy at University College London (UCL).<ref name="CV"/> Her PhD thesis was entitled ''Individuals, Society and the World: A Defence of Collective Environmental Duties''.<ref name="Thesis"/> During her studies, she taught variously at UCL, West London College, and Heythrop College, as well as continuing to work as a freelance journalist.<ref name="CV"/>
Upon completing her PhD, Cripps moved to the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, initially (2008–09) as a fixed term lecturer and then (2009–12) as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow.<ref name="CV"/> Her project was entitled ''Collective Action, Collective Responsibility and a New Environmental Ethics''.<Ref name="BA"/> After this, she remained at Edinburgh as a Lecturer in Political Theory.<ref name="CV"/> Her first book, the academic monograph ''Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World'', was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.<ref name="Climate Change and the Moral Agent"/>
Cripps was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2016.<ref name="CV"/> In 2022, she published ''What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care'' with Bloomsbury.<ref name="Climate Justice"/> The following year, she published ''Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids – and Everyone Else'' with MIT Press.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2023/06/01/should-we-worry-about-our-childrens-lives-in-the-climate-crisis/|author=Purcell, Conor|date=1 June 2023|title=Should we worry about our children’s lives in the climate crisis?|newspaper=The Irish Times|accessdate=7 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|author=Warburton, Nigel|date=17 May 2023|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/everyday-philosophy-how-best-to-educate-our-children/|title= Everyday Philosophy: How best to educate our children|magazine=The New European|accessdate=7 June 2023}}</ref>
==Selected publications== *Cripps, Elizabeth (2013). ''Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World''. Oxford University Press. *Cripps, Elizabeth (2022). ''What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care''. Bloomsbury. *Cripps, Elizabeth (2023). ''Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids – and Everyone Else''. MIT Press.
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<ref name="Thesis">{{Cite web|url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.505532|publisher=E-Theses Online Service|title= Individuals, society and the world : a defence of collective environmental duties |accessdate=7 June 2023}}</ref> <ref name="Edinburgh">{{cite web|url=https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/elizabeth-cripps|title=Dr Elizabeth Cripps |publisher=University of Edinburgh|accessdate=7 June 2023}}</ref> <ref name="CV">{{Cite web|url=https://elizabethcripps.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/5/9/29598403/cripps_cv_sept_2022__short_version_.pdf|date=September 2022|title=CV|author=Cripps, Elizabeth|accessdate=7 June 2023}}</ref> <ref name="BA">{{cite web|title=Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 2009|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/past-awards/2009/|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=7 June 2023}}</ref> <ref name="Climate Change and the Moral Agent">Reviews: *{{cite journal|author=Katz, Corey|year=2016|title= Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World|journal=Ethics, Policy & Environment|volume=19|issue=3|pages=366–9|doi=10.1080/21550085.2016.1226232}} *{{cite journal|author=Hormio, Säde|year=2014|title=Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World|journal=Journal of Social Ontology|volume=1|issue=1|pages=179-82|doi=10.1515/jso-2014-0038|doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal|author=Fragnière, Augustin|year=2015|title=Review of Elizabeth Cripps, ''Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World''|journal=Environmental Values|volume=24|issue=5|pages=698–700|doi=10.3197/096327115X14384223590410}} *{{cite journal|author=Greaves, Tom|year=2014|title= Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World|journal=Journal of Contemporary European Studies|volume=22|issue=3|pages=347-9|doi=10.1080/14782804.2014.942130}} *{{cite journal|author=Groves, Christopher|year=2015|title=Elizabeth Cripps: Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World|journal=Environmental Ethics|volume=37|issue=2|pages=247–8|doi=10.5840/enviroethics201537223}} *{{cite journal|author=Vanderheiden, Steve|year=2015|title= Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World. By Elizabeth Cripps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 272p. $100.00.|journal=Perspectives on Politics|volume=13|issue=2|pages=552–3|doi=10.1017/S1537592715000833}} </ref> <ref name="Climate Justice">Reviews: *{{cite magazine|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781472991812|title=What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care|magazine=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=7 June 2023|date=2 February 2022}} *{{Cite journal|author=Aczel, Miriam|year=2022|title=Confronting climate injustice|journal=Science|volume=376|issue=6590|page=253|doi=10.1126/science.abo3385}} </ref>
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==External links== *[https://elizabethcripps.weebly.com/ Personal website]
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