Philipp is an ecologist, philosopher, and writer. Some of his current research focuses on the function of the moral imagination in environmental ethics and its methodical use for transformative sustainable development. Through SERI, he serves as the researcher in The Big Green, a pan-European arts-and-culture project, and hosts the Green Academy.
Philipp has taught environmental philosophy, ethics, and utopianism at universities including Freiburg, Rostock, Greifswald, and LMU Munich. He is a visiting instructor in environmental ethics at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development and teaches ethical decision-making for graduate students and researchers at the University of Lübeck. He is also a PhD candidate in environmental philosophy at the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
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Kim Alina Lüdtke, Philipp P. Thapa, Stefan Zerbe, in European Journal of Education, 2024
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Lüdtke, K. A., Thapa, P. P., & Zerbe, S. (2024). Can Education for Sustainable Development Support Climate Change Adaptation Effectively? A Delphi Study of Germany’s Non‐Formal Education Sector.
European Journal of Education. https://doi.org/
10.1111/ejed.12797
Thapa, P. P. (2024). Ecotopianism: Towards a philosophical conception. In A. Kallhoff & E. Liedauer (Eds.), Greentopia: Utopian Thought in the Anthropocene (Vol. 36, pp. 35–48). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56802-2
Thapa, P. P. (2024). The ethics of changing others’ minds (summary). In Interpret Europe (Ed.),
Conference 2024 Sustainability: Challenging mindsets through heritage interpretation – Proceedings (First edition) (1st ed., pp. 72–77). Interpret Europe.
https://interpret-europe.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/iecon2024_proceedings.pdf
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