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Ian Werkheiser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is also the host of Thought About Food, a podcast on food and food studies and Digital Worlds, a podcast on the philosophy of technology. His research is currently focused on the interaction between emerging technology on the one hand and communities’ responses to environmental problems (particularly around food systems) on the other. This work brings in philosophy of the environment, philosophy of technology, bioethics, social and political philosophy, and more. Recently, he has been applying tools from environmental philosophy and especially environmental justice to emerging digital technology, and has started the Digital Worlds Workshop to examine issues in emerging technology and virtual worlds. Digitally altered environments, more than the technology itself, are what most people experience and interact with, and these new augmented environments have a host of philosophical implications. View more posts