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30Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley. 2002.Environmental Ethics: An Anthology brings together both classic and cutting-edge essays which have formed contemporary environmental ethics, ranging from the welfare of animals versus ecosystems to theories of the intrinsic value of nature.
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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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13Love 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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144Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2002._ _ _Environmental Ethics: An Anthology_ brings together both classic and cutting-edge essays which have formed contemporary environmental ethics, ranging from the welfare of animals versus ecosystems to theories of the intrinsic value of nature
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8Borgmann's Unzeitgemdsse Betrachtungen: On the Prepolitical Conditions of a Politics of PlaceIn Eric Higgs, Andrew Light & David Strong (eds.), Technology and the good life?, University of Chicago Press. pp. 106. 2000.
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14Race, class, and community identity (edited book)Humanity Books. 2000.Despite the intransigent nature of many of the problems discussed, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the possibilities for developing a viable alternative politics.
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128Technology and the good life? (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 2000.Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines and systems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a servant rather than a master? Technology and the Good Life? uses a careful collective analysis of Albert Borgmann's controversial and influential ideas as a jumping-off point from which to address questions such as these about the role and significance of technology in our lives. Contribu…Read more
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1Nature, Class, and the Built World: Philosophical Essays Between Political Ecology and Critical TechnologyDissertation, University of California, Riverside. 1996.The collection of papers that comprise this thesis explore three sets of questions important to environmental philosophy, broadly construed. All three topics are explored through the theoretical device of environmental pragmatism, the argument that philosophical disagreements on environmental questions can sometimes be set aside in order to achieve compatible strategies to work toward improving environmental conditions. As part of this strategy, pragmatists also call for the abandonment of the e…Read more
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54Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture (edited book)Springer. 2007.This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture.