Elizabeth Cripps

Elizabeth Blanche Cripps is a British political philosopher. She is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her research addresses environmental philosophy, including questions around climate change, population and parenting, environmental ethics, environmental politics, and environmental justice.

Career From 1995–9, Cripps studied at St John's, University of Oxford, initially reading Maths and philosophy, and then Politics, philosophy, and Economics.

Selected publications Cripps, Elizabeth (2013). Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World. Oxford University Press. Cripps, Elizabeth (2022). What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care. Bloomsbury. Cripps, Elizabeth (2023). Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids – and Everyone Else. MIT Press.