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About Robert Frodeman
- Robert Frodeman is former Professor and former Chair, Dept of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas, previously at the University of Colorado, and Director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.
- A student of Alphonso Lingis and Stanley Rosen, Frodeman works in the areas of environmental ethics and environmental philosophy, the philosophy of geology, the philosophy of science policy, and the philosophy of interdisciplinarity, and has written an extensive body of peer-reviewed academic work in these areas.
- Throughout his work he emphasizes the role that philosophy can play in addressing ongoing societal controversies such as acid mine drainage, global climate change, and Hurricane Katrina.
- His most recent work focuses on the use and abuse of knowledge for social amelioration, a topic that has come to be known as critical university studies.
- Frodeman is also part of a growing movement known as 'field philosophy' where philosophers emphasize working with scientists, engineers, and policy makers rather than an extensive focus on writing and working with other philosophers (e.g., Brister and Frodeman, forthcoming). In the fall of 2008 Frodeman became founding director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID).
- CSID focused on identifying best practices for interdisciplinary research and education, and views the last 100 years of disciplinarity across the academy as breaking down under the pressure of complex problems and the overproduction of knowledge.
- Frodeman is also the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (2010), second edition 2017.
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