Jason Martin Wirth (born 1963) is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Seattle University. He was the Theiline Pigott McCone Chair in Humanities from 2014 to 2016.[1] He won The Torch Bearer Award in 2018. Wirth is known for his research on environmental philosophy.[2]

Jason Martin Wirth
Speaking at the San Francisco Public Library in 2025
Born (1963-02-03) February 3, 1963 (age 63)
AwardsThe Torch Bearer Award, John Tich Award
Education
EducationState University of New York at Binghamton (Ph.D.)
ThesisThe Conspiracy of Being: FWJ von Schelling and Conscientiousness before the Freedom of Philosophy (May 1994)
Dennis J. Schmidt
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Continental
InstitutionsSeattle University
Main interests
moral philosophy, post-Kantian philosophy

Books

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  • Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis, SUNY 2017
  • Commiserating with Devastated Things, Fordham 2015
  • Schelling’s Practice of the Wild, SUNY 2015
  • The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time, SUNY 2003
  • Nietzsche and Other Buddhas, Indiana, spring 2019

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