For Faculty
John Nolt
Fellow, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy
PhD, Ohio State University
Fields of Interest: Environmental Ethics, Intergenerational Ethics, Climate Ethics, Philosophical Logic, and Formal Value Theory
Phone: 865-974-7218 • Email: nolt@utk.edu
Dr. John Nolt is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Tennessee and a Research Fellow in the Energy and Environment program of the Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public policy. His current areas of expertise are logic, environmental and intergenerational ethics, and formal value theory. He has authored, co-authored, or edited four books on environmental matters and three on logic. His most recent book, Incomparable Values: Analysis, Axiomatics, and Applications (Routledge 2022), is a departure from these topics, but not unrelated. It argues that both consequentialist ethics and rational decision theory can be enriched and clarified by recognition of pervasiveness of incomparable values. (Value incomparability is value difference without superiority—and hence without inferiority.)
