Dr. Derek D. Turner is the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College, in New London, CT, where he also serves as Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment. His research focuses on philosophical issues in the historical and environmental sciences. He is the author of Making Prehistory: Historical Science and the Scientific Realism Debate (2007), Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction (2011), and Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology (2019). He has also written on issues in environmental philosophy ranging from the precautionary principle, to rewilding and de-extinction, to the ethics of NIMBY (“Not in My Backyard”) activism.