Michael Aaron Lindquist

Title
Assistant Professor
Email
Department
Humanities and Communication Department
College
College of Arts & Sciences

Office Hours

MWF 10am–Noon

Areas of Expertise

Environmental Philosophy, Ethical Theory, Philosophy & Space Exploration
Michael Aaron Lindquist

Dr. Michael Lindquist is an Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Department of Humanities and Communication. Dr. Michael Lindquist earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Georgia in 2022, a M.A. in Philosophy from Western Michigan University in 2015, and a B.S. in Philosophy with a double-major in Psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oneonta in 2013. From 2022–2025, he served as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. Dr. Lindquist is an environmental philosopher with a primary research focus on applying and developing environmental philosophy in relation to issues in space exploration. Seeking to address biocentric biases in much of environmental thought, a primary stream of Dr. Lindquist’s long-term work is developing an ethical theory that adequately accounts for the moral mattering of abiotic environments with special attention to extraterrestrial environments. Dr. Lindquist has published on the ethics of terraforming, extraterrestrial wilderness protection, and on questions regarding the ontological status of space debris. He has also published on de-extinction technology and the philosophy of smell. He is currently exploring he eco-politics of space settlement projects while expanding on his previous work.


  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, University of Georgia
  • M.A. - Master of Arts in Philosophy, Western Michigan University
  • B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Philosophy, SUNY College at Oneonta
  • COM 122: English Composition
  • HU 341: World Philosophy

Book Review: Erika Nesvold. Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.  2023. Forthcoming. Journal of Moral Philosophy.

“Mars and the Value of Wilderness.” 2024. Ethics & the Environment. 29 (1): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.2979/een.00002

“Space Debris: Litter or Pollution?”. 2024. Diálogos. 114: 195–226. https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/dialogos/article/view/21263

“Aesthetics, Olfaction, and Environment.” 2023. In Theoretical Perspectives on Smell, edited by Andreas Keller and Benjamin D. Young. London, UK: Routledge.

Book Review: Brian Patrick Green. Space Ethics, London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2021. 2023. Environmental Values. 32 (1): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327123X16702350862700

“Astroethics and the Non-Fungibility Thesis”. 2022. Environmental Ethics. 44 (3): 221–246. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics202271542 

Book Review: Robin Attfield. Environmental Thought: A Short History, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2021. 2021. Environmental Values. 30 (6): 786-788.

https://doi.org/10.3197/096327121X16328186623814

“Aesthetics at the Intersection of the Species Problem and De-Extinction Technology”. 2020.      Environmental Values. 29 (5): 605-624. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327120X15868540131260