Robert Frodeman is former Professor and former chair, Dept of

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and Religion,

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, previously at the

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, and Director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity. He publishes in the philosophy of geology, the philosophy of interdisciplinarity, and practical philosophy. Frodeman is now a writer and consultant living in Hoback, Wyoming.

Education

Frodeman attended St. Louis University, where he gained degrees in History and Philosophy (1981),

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, where he obtained a

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(1988), studying with Stanley Rosen and

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, and the

, where he was awarded a M.S. degree while studying at INSTAAR. From 1993 to 2001 Frodeman consulted for the

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on questions of science policy, giving lectures to USGS field offices around the country. In 2001–2002, he was the Hennebach Professor of the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines; in 2005 he was the ESRC Fellow at Lancaster University in England. In 2016 Frodeman served as a member on an Expert Committee on

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for the European Commission. Since retiring he has written on environmental questions in the American West. In 2023 Frodeman was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Turku in Finland.

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Personal website
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