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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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Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice: Architectural Renderings as the Editing of RealityIn Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Springer. 2008.
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20The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2016._The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics_ is comprised of sixty original essays, which focus on how ethical questions intersect with real and pressing policy issues. Rather than overviewing abstract conceptual categories, the authors focus on specific controversies involving the environment. Clearly written contributions on Fossil Fuels, Urban Sustainability, Novel Ecosystems, and many other subjects make accessible these issues‘ empirical and political dimensions as well as their theore…Read more
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17Philosophy and Geography Ii: The Production of Public Space (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute themselves as a public. This volume advances this inquiry, making extensive use of political and social theory, while drawing intimate connections between political principles, social processes, and the commonplaces of our every…Read more
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4639 Methodological Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Environmental EthicsEnvironmental Ethics: The Big Questions. forthcoming.
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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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509Environmental Pragmatism (edited book)Routledge. 1996.Environmental pragmatism is a new strategy in environmental thought. It argues that theoretical debates are hindering the ability of the environmental movement to forge agreement on basic policy imperatives. This new direction in environmental thought moves beyond theory, advocating a serious inquiry into the merits of moral pluralism. Environmental pragmatism, as a coherent philosophical position, connects the methodology of classical American pragmatic thought to the explanation, solution and …Read more
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59The Aesthetics of Everyday Life (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2005.The aesthetics of everyday life, originally developed by Henri Lefebvre and other modernist theorists, is an extension of traditional aesthetics, usually confined to works of art. It is not limited to the study of humble objects but is rather concerned with all of the undeniably aesthetic experiences that arise when one contemplates objects or performs acts that are outside the traditional realm of aesthetics. It is concerned with the nature of the relationship between subject and object. One si…Read more
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10Editors' introductionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 39 (2): 153-155. 1996.No abstract