Arthur Obst

Dr. Arthur Obst received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Washington, Seattle in the Spring of 2023. His research lies at the intersection of traditional environmental philosophy and the ethics of the ongoing climate crisis. Arthur’s dissertation clarified the conceptual underpinnings of classical US preservation thought with the aim of establishing its pressing social and political relevance today. From 2023-2025, he was a Postdoctoral Associate for the Climate Futures Initiative in the High Meadows Environmental Institute and University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. In this capacity, he was the primary organizer of Geoengineering in Crisis: The Princeton Workshop on Geoengineering Ethics and Governance. As of September 2025, he is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Climate Systems Engineering initiative at the University of Chicago. He is published in Environmental Values and Environmental Ethics, among other journals, and is co-author of Dialogues on Climate Justice with Stephen Gardiner (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor of Environmental Ethics Evolves: A Collaborative Introduction with Linde De Vroey (Routledge, 2027).