# Elizabeth Cripps > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elizabeth_Cripps > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elizabeth_Cripps.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cripps > Source revision: 1353795006 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/political_philosophy). She is a [senior lecturer](/source/senior_lecturer) in Political Theory at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh). Her research addresses [environmental philosophy](/source/environmental_philosophy), including questions around [climate change](/source/climate_change), population and [parenting](/source/parenting), [environmental ethics](/source/environmental_ethics), [environmental politics](/source/environmental_politics), and [environmental justice](/source/environmental_justice). ==Career== From 1995–9, Cripps studied at [St John's](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Oxford), [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford), initially reading Maths and philosophy, and then [Politics, philosophy, and Economics](/source/Philosophy%2C_politics_and_economics). She subsequently worked as a journalist, both freelance and for the [Financial Times Group](/source/Financial_Times). She returned to academia in 2003, undertaking an [MPhil](/source/MPhil) (2003–05) and PhD (2005–08) in philosophy at [University College London](/source/University_College_London) (UCL). Her PhD thesis was entitled ''Individuals, Society and the World: A Defence of Collective Environmental Duties''. During her studies, she taught variously at UCL, [West London College](/source/West_London_College), and [Heythrop College](/source/Heythrop_College), as well as continuing to work as a freelance journalist. Upon completing her PhD, Cripps moved to the Department of Politics and International Relations at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh), initially (2008–09) as a [fixed term lecturer](/source/Fixed-term_employment_contract) and then (2009–12) as a [British Academy](/source/British_Academy) [Postdoctoral Fellow](/source/Postdoctoral_Fellow). Her project was entitled ''Collective Action, Collective Responsibility and a New Environmental Ethics''. After this, she remained at Edinburgh as a Lecturer in Political Theory. Her first book, the [academic monograph](/source/academic_monograph) ''Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World'', was published by [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) in 2013. Cripps was promoted to [Senior Lecturer](/source/Senior_Lecturer) in 2016. In 2022, she published ''What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care'' with [Bloomsbury](/source/Bloomsbury_(publisher)). The following year, she published ''Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids – and Everyone Else'' with [MIT Press](/source/MIT_Press).{{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](/source/The_Irish_Times)|accessdate=7 June 2023}}{{cite magazine|author=[Warburton, Nigel](/source/Nigel_Warburton)|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](/source/The_New_European)|accessdate=7 June 2023}} ==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. ==References== {{Cite web|url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.505532|publisher=[E-Theses Online Service](/source/E-Theses_Online_Service)|title= Individuals, society and the world : a defence of collective environmental duties |accessdate=7 June 2023}} {{cite web|url=https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/elizabeth-cripps|title=Dr Elizabeth Cripps |publisher=[University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh)|accessdate=7 June 2023}} {{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}} {{cite web|title=Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 2009|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/past-awards/2009/|publisher=[British Academy](/source/British_Academy)|accessdate=7 June 2023}} 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Environmental_Ethics_(journal))|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](/source/Perspectives_on_Politics)|volume=13|issue=2|pages=552–3|doi=10.1017/S1537592715000833}} Reviews: *{{cite magazine|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781472991812|title=What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care|magazine=[Publishers Weekly](/source/Publishers_Weekly)|accessdate=7 June 2023|date=2 February 2022}} *{{Cite journal|author=Aczel, Miriam|year=2022|title=Confronting climate injustice|journal=[Science](/source/Science_(journal))|volume=376|issue=6590|page=253|doi=10.1126/science.abo3385}} ==External links== *[https://elizabethcripps.weebly.com/ Personal website] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cripps, Elizabeth}} Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:British philosophers Category:British women philosophers Category:Environmental ethicists Category:Environmental justice scholars Category:Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Category:Alumni of University College London Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh Category:21st-century British journalists Category:21st-century British women journalists Category:21st-century British women writers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Elizabeth Cripps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cripps) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cripps?action=history)). 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