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20Reflections on reclamation through artEthics, Place and Environment 10 (3). 2007.Industrial interventions in the landscape leave their imprint in a permanent way, but there remain options on how to deal with land even at that point in time. In this essay, three alternatives are considered: leaving such sites as they are, restoring them to a condition resembling their original state, or transforming them into artworks. The author focuses in particular on the third option in order to determine to what degree it is possible for artistic reclamation to redeem such blights in the…Read more
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14Natural Beauty: A Theory of Aesthetics Beyond the Arts: Book Reviews (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (4): 465-467. 2008.
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6Bashô y la estética del caminar: por la recuperación del espacio, el reconocimiento de los lugares y el seguimienmto del universoContrastes: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 9 135-154. 2004.
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18The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada’s West CoastEnvironmental Ethics 26 (2): 205-208. 2004.
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31Sustainability, culture and ethics: Models from latin AmericaEthics, Place and Environment 8 (2). 2005.In order to develop sustainable relationships with the natural environment it is necessary to focus on approaches that may yield workable models of sustainability. Here I sample a few approaches from Latin America that point toward a promising model of sustainability. I argue that these approaches share the idea that the natural environment is in very close interdependence with human beings and their communities. I also outline the beliefs and practices of certain Latin American populations whic…Read more
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80Nature Restoration Without DissimulationEssays in Philosophy 3 (1): 38-48. 2002.On the face of it, the expression "nature restoration" may seem an oxymoron, for one may ask whether it makes any sense to suppose that human beings could restore that which is not human. Several writers recently have argued that, strictly speaking, this is nonsense and, furthermore, that the conceptual confusion involved may lead to ethically problematic consequences. In this essay I begin by discussing the problematic perceived in the notion of nature restoration. I proceed to consider Japanes…Read more
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Gregory J. Cooper, The Science of the Struggle for Existence (review)Philosophy in Review 24 398-400. 2004.
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55Journal Name: Apeiron Issue: Ahead of print
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18Saber tradicional, ética de la tierra y sustentabilidadIsegoría 32. 2005.Éste ese! momento crucial para emprender formas de vida sustentables, por lo que resulta esencial adoptar una ética de la tierra que reconozca el valor intrínseco además del valor útil de los seres que pueblan nuestro medio ambiente natural. En este ensayo empiezo enfocando los obstáculos a que se enfrenta el desarrollo de una ética de la tierra, obstáculos que resultan ser el producto de conocimientos limitados y suposiciones equivocadas. En resolución de esas problemáticas prácticas apunto, pr…Read more
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110Nature, culture, and natural heritage: Toward a culture of natureEnvironmental Ethics 27 (4): 339-354. 2005.Nature and culture are usually treated as opposites. Nature, on this conception, is on the wane as a result of culture. A fresh analysis of the relation between these two terms in the light of the notion of “cultural landscapes” is needed. This account allows for nature to be understood as an important, distinctive category, even while granting the constitutive role of the culturally structured gaze. Culture and nature need not be conceived in opposition to each other, for it makes sense to spea…Read more
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Bashô y la estética del caminar: por la recuperación del espacio, el reconocimiento de los lugares y el seguimiento de los caminos del universoSuplementos de Contrastes: Revista Interdisciplinar de Filosofía 9 135-154. 2004.
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4The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada’s West Coast (review)Environmental Ethics 26 (2): 205-208. 2004.
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3Allen Carlson, Aesthetics and the Environment Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (5): 324-326. 2000.
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86Rock art aesthetics and cultural appropriationJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (1). 2003.
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4Minding Nature (review)Dialogue 38 (1): 168-170. 1999.This book does not propose to discuss a Spinozist conception of nature, as we might have hoped, given its title. The book is not about the philosophy of the science of ecology, either, as its subtitle would suggest, but rather about our approaches to the natural environment insofar as it is involved by human activity.
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2GW Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (6): 424-427. 1997.
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49Thinking through Botanic GardensEnvironmental Values 15 (2). 2006.This essay discusses ways of thinking about botanic gardens that pay close attention to their particularity as designed spaces, dependent on technique, that nonetheless purport to present (and preserve) natural entities (plants). I introduce an account of what gardens are, how botanic gardens differ from other gardens, and how this particular form of garden arose in history. After this I contrast three ways of understanding the function of botanic gardens in the present time: as sites of recreat…Read more
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54The Case for Environmental MoralityEnvironmental Ethics 25 (1): 5-24. 2003.Present environmental degradation has led some to argue that only an appeal to selfishness will “save the environment,” allegedly because appeals to “morality” necessarily are ineffective, while others have suggested that we need a “new, environmental ethic.” If we are interested in countering the degradation of the natural environment, we need to reconsider actual morality, how it is developed, and how it may take into account human activities affecting the natural world. Ultimately, we need to…Read more
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29Nature, Culture, and Natural Heritage: Toward a Culture of NatureEnvironmental Ethics 27 (4): 339-354. 2005.Nature and culture are usually treated as opposites. Nature, on this conception, is on the wane as a result of culture. A fresh analysis of the relation between these two terms in the light of the notion of “cultural landscapes” is needed. This account allows for nature to be understood as an important, distinctive category, even while granting the constitutive role of the culturally structured gaze. Culture and nature need not be conceived in opposition to each other, for it makes sense to spea…Read more
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23Culture and Climate ChangeProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 23 45-52. 2008.Physical science is coming to an increasingly clear understanding of natural environmental changes, their causes and their effects on the landscape. Human beings have lived through significant climate variability in historical periods, and through repeated periods of relatively sudden climate change, as well asmultiple other drastic natural events in prehistory. In this paper I propose that we should take into account the cultural dimension when considering adaptation to drastic natural events, …Read more
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University of VictoriaDepartment of Philosophy
School of Environmental StudiesAdjunct Professor In School of Environmental Studies, Associate Fellow At Centre for Global Studies -
Universidad de La LagunaOther (Part-time)
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Other Academic Areas |
History of Western Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |