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11Taking Environmental Ethics PublicEnvironmental Ethics: Introductory Readings, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming. forthcoming.
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Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering DesignIn Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Springer. 2008.
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1Re-Designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal?In Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Springer. 2008.
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Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in ArtifactsIn Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Springer. 2008.
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2Introduction: Environmental pragmatism and environmental ethics as contested terrainIn Andrew Light & Eric Katz (eds.), Environmental Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 1--18. 1996.
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1Compatibilism in political ecologyIn Andrew Light & Eric Katz (eds.), Environmental Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 161--184. 1996.
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2Environmental pragmatism as philosophy or metaphilosophy? On the Weston-Katz debateIn Andrew Light & Eric Katz (eds.), Environmental Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 325--338. 1996.
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12Love conquers all, even time?In Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke & Harry Silverstein (eds.), Time and Identity, Mit Press. pp. 311. 2010.This chapter discusses the methods of studying the nature of time, particularly the story method. It presents a discussion of time as related to identity and tells the story of a person put on trial for committing a murder five years ago who puts forward an unorthodox defense. The accused person claims to remember committing the murder, but argues that “the murderer is not the same person as me, for I have changed. I am not the same person as that murderer of five years ago. Therefore you cannot…Read more
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Ecological restoration : From functional descriptions to normative prescriptionsIn Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives, Mit Press. 2009.
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Marcuse's deep-social ecology and the future of utopian environmentalismIn John Abromeit & W. Mark Cobb (eds.), Herbert Marcuse: a critical reader, Routledge. 2004.
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Robert Elliot's 1982 “Faking Nature,” represents one of the strongest philosophical rejections of the ground of restoration ecology ever offered.1 Here, and in a succession of papers defending the original essay, Elliot argued that ecological restoration, the practice of restoring damaged ecosystems, was akin to art forgery. Just as a copied art work could not reproduce the value of the original, restored nature could not reproduce the value of original nature, conceived as a form of nonanthropo…Read more
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T. C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth (2001), tells the story of Tyrone Tierwater, a one time monkeywrencher and environmental avenger for “E. F.!” (Earth Forever!) who we first meet in 2025 in his mid-seventies. Tierwater is now working for a character based on Michael Jackson, who in his semi-retirement has employed the elder eco-warrior to help save some of the last remnants of a few dying species – warthogs, peccaries, hyenas, jackals, lions and what is likely the last Patagoninan fox. The not…Read more
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The writings of William H. Whyte do not loom large in the literature of my field: environmental ethics, the branch of ethics devoted to consideration of whether and how there are moral reasons for protecting non-human animals and the larger natural environment. Environmental ethics is a very new field of inquiry, only found in academic philosophy departments since the early 1970s. While there is no accepted reading list of indispensable literature in environmental ethics, certainly any attempt t…Read more
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52Wim wenders and the everyday aesthetics of technology and spaceJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 55 (2): 215-229. 1997.
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It is an old wag among environmentalists that humans have become disconnected from nature. The culprits for this conundrum are various. If it is not our addiction to technological enticements then it is our life in big cities which alienate us from our “earthen elements.” The presumed result of this disconnection is that we do not respect the land anymore and turn a blind eye to the environmental consequences of our collective acts of consumption and pollution. Various bits of evidence are produ…Read more
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50Ethics, Policy & Environment : A New Name and a Renewed MissionEthics, Policy and Environment 14 (1): 1-2. 2011.Readers of Ethics, Place & Environment will notice at least one major change in this inaugural 2011 issue. Namely, we are no longer operating under the same name. At the Eastern Division American P...
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Philosophy 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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19Materialists, Ontologists, and Environmental PragmatistsSocial Theory and Practice 21 (2): 315-333. 1995.
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13Symposium Introduction Eric Katz's Nature as SubjectEthics and the Environment 7 (1): 102-108. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ethics & the Environment 7.1 (2002) 102-108 [Access article in PDF] Symposium IntroductionEric Katz's Nature As Subject Andrew Light Can and should we distinguish between nature and culture? The question has become a perennial one in environmental ethics, as well as in allied fields in environmental history, sociology, and politics. And just when we think it is settled—as many did after William Cronon's famous deconstruction of wilde…Read more
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33Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2004.What does American pragmatism contribute to contemporary debates about human-animal relationships? Does it acknowledge our connections to all living things? Does it bring us closer to an ethical treatment of all animals?
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47Callicott and Naess on pluralismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 39 (2). 1996.J. Baird Callicott has thrown down the gauntlet once again in the monism?pluralism debate in environmental ethics. In a recent article he argues that his ?communitarianism? (combined with a limited intertheoretic pluralism) is sufficient to get the advantages of pluralism advocated by his critics, while at the same time retaining the framework of moral monism. Callicott's attempt to set the record straight on the monism?pluralism debate has once again derailed us from answering the most importan…Read more
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16The philosophy of deep ecology originated in the 1970s with the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess and has since spread around the world. Its basic premises are a belief in the intrinsic value of nonhuman nature, a belief that ecological principles should dictate human actions and moral evaluations, an emphasis on noninterference into natural processes, and a critique of materialism and technological progress.This book approaches deep ecology as a philosophy, not as a political, social, or environ…Read more
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18Symposium introduction:Ethics and the Environment 7 (1): 102-108. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ethics & the Environment 7.1 (2002) 102-108 [Access article in PDF] Symposium IntroductionEric Katz's Nature As Subject Andrew Light Can and should we distinguish between nature and culture? The question has become a perennial one in environmental ethics, as well as in allied fields in environmental history, sociology, and politics. And just when we think it is settled—as many did after William Cronon's famous deconstruction of wilde…Read more
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182Contemporary Environmental Ethics From Metaethics to Public PhilosophyMetaphilosophy 33 (4): 426-449. 2002.In the past thirty years environmental ethics has emerged as one of the most vibrant and exciting areas of applied philosophy. Several journals and hundreds of books testify to its growing importance inside and outside philosophical circles. But with all of this scholarly output, it is arguably the case that environmental ethics is not living up to its promise of providing a philosophical contribution to the resolution of environmental problems. This article surveys the current state of the fiel…Read more
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30Not Out of the Woods: Preserving the Human in Environmental ArchitectureEnvironmental Values 14 (1). 2005.The North American environmental movement has historically sought to redress the depletion and degradation of natural resources that has been the legacy of the industrial revolution. Predominant in this approach has been the preservation of wilderness, conservation of species biodiversity and the restoration of natural ecosystems. While the results of such activity have often been commendable, several scholars have pointed out that the environmental movement has inherited an unfortunate bias aga…Read more
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