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9Biodiversity: Its Meaning and ValueIn Sahorta Sarkar & Anya Plutynski (eds.), Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: What is Biological Diversity? The Definition Problem Two Models of Biodiversity Science and Management Understanding Biodiversity in Public Policy Discourse Identifying and Measuring Values Derived from Biological Diversity Conclusion References Further Reading.
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5Simondon and Novalis: Notes for a Romantic MechanologySubstance 53 (1): 85-100. 2024.Abstract:German Romanticism plays a central role in Gilbert Simondon's writings. In Mode of Existence, Simondon draws on Goethe and E. T. A. Hoffmann to illustrate the tragic consequences of failing to attend to the individuated relationship between landscape and tool. While Novalis is only mentioned in passing, his work presents the most radical form of what might be called Romantic mechanology. With the stated aim of achieving the ideal of perpetual motion, Novalis's poetics highlight the cent…Read more
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3Convergence and divergence: the convergence hypothesis twenty years laterIn Ben Minteer (ed.), Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy, Temple University Press. 2009.
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3Ecology and opportunity: intergenerational equity and sustainable optionsIn Andrew Dobson (ed.), Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice, Oxford University Press. pp. 118--150. 1999.
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3Book Review: Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions (review)Environmental Values 16 (1): 125-129. 2007.
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1Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation BiologyCambridge University Press. 2002.This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for environmental management. The author, trained as a philosopher of science and language, explores ways to break down the disciplinary barriers to communication and deliberation about environment policy, and to integrate science and evaluations into a more comprehensive environmental policy. Choosing sustainability as the keystone concept of environment…Read more
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1Philosophy and Geography Iii: Philosophies of Place (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.A growing literature testifies to the persistence of place as an incorrigible aspect of human experience, identity, and morality. Place is a common ground for thought and action, a community of experienced particulars that avoids solipsism and universalism. It draws us into the philosophy of the ordinary, into familiarity as a form of knowledge, into the wisdom of proximity. Each of these essays offers a philosophy of place, and reminds us that such philosophies ultimately decide how we make, us…Read more
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Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New Century (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.In Democracy and the Claims of Nature, the leading thinkers in the fields of environmental, political, and social theory come together to discuss the tensions and sympathies of democratic ideals and environmental values. The prominent contributors reflect upon where we stand in our understanding of the relationship between democracy and the claims of nature. Democracy and the Claims of Nature bridges the gap between the often competing ideals of the two fields, leading to a greater understanding…Read more
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Review of Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology (review)Environmental Ethics 27 93-96. 2005.
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Review of Daniel W. Norton, Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions (review)Environmental Values 16 125-129. 2007.