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10Environmental Ethics and Agricultural IntensificationIn Paul Thompson (ed.), The Ethics of Intensification: Agricultural Development and Cultural Chang, Springer. pp. 131-148. 2008.
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David Strong, Crazy Mountains: Learning from Wilderness to Weigh Technology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (6): 392-395. 1997.
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13Animal Rights (edited book)Ashgate. 2008.Do animals have moral rights? If so, which ones? How does this affect our thinking about agriculture and experimentation? If animals have moral rights, should they be protected by law? These are some of the questions addressed in this collection, which contains more than 30 papers spanning nearly 40 years of debates about animal rights. It includes work by leading advocates of animal rights both in philosophy and law, as well as contributions by those resolutely opposed to the very idea of anima…Read more
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79Animal Ethics in ContextColumbia University Press. 2010.It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to animals, but we also face questions about when we should, and should not, assist animals that are hungry or distressed. Should we feed a starving stray kitten? And if so, does this commit us, if we are to be consistent, to feeding …Read more
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1469The Blind Hens' Challenge: Does It Undermine the View That Only Welfare Matters in Our Dealings with Animals?Environmental Values 23 (6): 727-742. 2014.Animal ethicists have recently debated the ethical questions raised by disenhancing animals to improve their welfare. Here, we focus on the particular case of breeding hens for commercial egg-laying systems to become blind, in order to benefit their welfare. Many people find breeding blind hens intuitively repellent, yet ‘welfare-only’ positions appear to be committed to endorsing this possibility if it produces welfare gains. We call this the ‘Blind Hens’ Challenge’. In this paper, we argue tha…Read more
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60Value Conflicts in Feral Cat Management: Trap-Neuter-Return or Trap-EuthanizeIn Michael C. Appleby, Daniel M. Weary & Peter Sandøe (eds.), Dilemmas in Animal Welfare, Cabi International. pp. 148-168. 2014.This chapter explores the key values at stake in feral cat management, focusing on the debate over whether to use trap-neuter-return or trap-euthanize as management tools for cat populations. The chapter provides empirical background on unowned cats, sketches widely used arguments in favour of reducing cat populations and considers how these arguments relate to important and widely held values including the value of lives, subjective experiences and species. The chapter promotes critical underst…Read more
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63Should We Move the Whitebark Pine? Assisted Migration, Ethics and Global Environmental ChangeEnvironmental Values 23 (6): 641-662. 2014.Some species face extinction if they are unable to keep pace with climate change. Yet proposals to assist threatened species’ poleward or uphill migration (‘assisted migration’) have caused significant controversy among conservationists, not least because assisted migration seems to threaten some values, even as it protects others. To date, however, analysis of ethical and value questions about assisted migration has largely remained abstract, removed from the ultimately pragmatic decision about…Read more
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319Killing Animals in Animal SheltersIn The Animal Studies Group (ed.), Killing Animals, edited by The Animal Studies Group, Illinois University Press. pp. 170-187. 2006.In this article, Palmer provides a clear survey of positions on killing domestic animals in animal shelters. She argues that there are three ways of understanding the killing that occurs in animal shelters: consequentialism, rights based, and relation based. She considers the relationship of humans and domesticated animals that leads to their killing in animal shelters as well as providing an ethical assessment of the practice.
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61‘Respect for nature’ in the earth charter: the value of species and the value of individualsEthics, Place and Environment 7 (1-2). 2004.This paper explores the idea of 'respect for nature' in the Earth Charter. It maintains that the Earth Charter proposes a broadly holistic environmental ethic where, in situations of conflict, species are given ethical priority over the lives of individual sentient organisms. The paper considers policy implications of this perspective, looking by means of example at the current European environmental policy dispute about the ruddy and white-headed duck. Questions about the value of species and b…Read more
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J. Baird Callicott and Fernando JR Da Rocha, eds., Earth Summit Ethics: Towards a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (6): 392-395. 1997.
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1862Does Breeding a Bulldog Harm It?Animal Welfare 21 157-166. 2012.It is frequently claimed that breeding animals that we know will have unavoidable health problems is at least prima facie wrong, because it harms the animals concerned. However, if we take ‘harm’ to mean ‘makes worse off’, this claim appears false. Breeding an animal that will have unavoidable health problems does not make any particular individual animal worse off, since an animal bred without such problems would be a different individual animal. Yet, the intuition that there is something ethic…Read more
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167Animal EthicsIn Michael Appleby, Barry Hughes, Joy Mench & Anna Ollson (eds.), Animal Welfare, Cabi International. pp. 1-12. 1997.This chapter introduces ans discusses different views concerning our duties towards animals. First, we explain why we should engage in reasoning about animal ethics, rather than relying on intuitions or feelings alone. Secondly, we present and discuss five different kinds of views about the nature of our duties to animals. These are: contractarianism, utilitarianism, animal rights views, contextual views and what we call a "respect for nature" view. Finally, we briefly consider whether it is pos…Read more
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13Environmental Philosophy: Critical Concepts in the Environment (edited book)Routledge. 2004.This collection gathers classic, influential, and important papers in environmental philosophy ranging from the late 1960s and early 1970s to the present. The volumes explore environmental ethics, epistemological, metaphysical, and comparative worldview questions raised by environmental concerns. The set also represents a genuinely global and international focus, and includes a full index and new introductions by the editors.
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171“Taming the Wild Profusion of Existing Things”?: A Study of Foucault, Power, and Human/Animal RelationshipsEnvironmental Ethics 23 (4): 339-358. 2001.I explore how some aspects of Foucoult’s work on power can be applied to human/animal power relations. First, I argue that because animals behave as “beings that react” and can respond in different ways to human actions, in principle at least, Foucoult’s work can offer insights into human/animal power relations. However, many of these relations fall into the category of “domination,” in which animals are unable to respond. Second, I examine different kinds of human power practices, in particular…Read more
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46StewardshipIn Ian Ball, Margaret Goodall, Clare Palmer & John Reader (eds.), The Earth Beneath, Spck. pp. 67-87. 1992.
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526Place-Historical Narratives: Road—or Roadblock—to Sustainability?Ethics, Policy and Environment 14 (3). 2011.Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 345-359, October 2011.
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Fox hunting, power and ethicsIn Andrew Light & Avner de Shalit (eds.), Reasoning in Environmental Practice, Mit Press. pp. 281-294. 2004.
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14Symposium on Neonatal SurgeryABC-Clio. 1978.An introduction placing environmental ethics within the framework of academic philosophy. Palmer (environmental sciences, Greenwich U. and Oxford U.) examines 20 current environmental issues, profiles key people who have explored the underlying values and concerns, considers ethical aspects of US environmental law, and reviews codes adopted by the public and private sectors. Includes a chronology and a glossary without pronunciation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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2Against the view that we are normally required to assist wild animalsRelations 3 (2): 203-210. 2015.
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32« Apprivoiser la profusion sauvage des choses existantes »?Philosophie 112 (1): 23-46. 2012.Que vient faire un article sur Foucault, le pouvoir et les relations entre l’homme et l’animal, dans une revue consacrée à des problématiques environnementales, a fortiori lorsque, en fait d’animaux, il est surtout question, comme on le verra, d’animaux domestiques? Une telle étude n’est-elle pas insuffisamment « environnementale »? Sans doute l’est-elle si, par « environnement », l’on entend quelque...
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598Technology assessment and the 'ethical matrix'Poiesis and Praxis 1 (4): 295-307. 2003.This paper explores the usefulness of the 'ethical matrix', proposed by Ben Mepham, as a tool in technology assessment, specifically in food ethics. We consider what the matrix is, how it might be useful as a tool in ethical decision-making, and what drawbacks might be associated with it. We suggest that it is helpful for fact-finding in ethical debates relating to food ethics; but that it is much less helpful in terms of weighing the different ethical problems that it uncovers. Despite this dra…Read more
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23The future of graduate education in environmental philosophy/ethicsEthics and the Environment 12 (2): 136-139. 2007.
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22Landscape and Value in the work of Alfred WainwrightLandscape Research 32 (4): 397-421. 2007.Alfred Wainwright was arguably the best known British guidebook writer of the20th century, and his work has been highly influential in promoting and directing fell-walking in northern Britain, in particular in the English Lake District. His work has, however, received little critical attention. This paper represents an initial attempt to undertake such a study. We examine Wainwright’s work through the lens of the landscape values and aesthetics that, we suggest,underpins it, and by an exploration…Read more
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476Religion in the Making? Animality, Savagery, and Civilization in the Work of A. N. WhiteheadSociety and Animals 8 (3): 287-304. 2000.Constructions of the animal and animality are often pivotal to religious discourses. Such constructions create the possibility of identifying and valuing what is "human" as opposed to the "animal" and also of distinguishing human beliefs and behaviors that can be characterized as being animal from those that are "truly human." Some discourses also employ the concept of savagery as a bridge between the human and the animal, where the form of humanity but not its ideal beliefs and practices can be…Read more
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2Larry May and Shari Collins Sharratt, eds., Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (1): 58-60. 1995.
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101Does Nature matter? The place of the non-human in the ethics of climate changeIn Denis Arnold (ed.), The Ethics of Global Climate Change, Cambridge University Press. pp. 272-291. 2011.
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69Christianity, Englishness and the southern English countryside: a study of the work of H.J. MassinghamSocial and Cultural Geography 3 (1): 25-38. 2002.This paper explores the relationships between Christianity, Englishness, and ideas about the southern English landscape in the writings of the 1930s and 1940s rural commentator, H.J. Massingham. The paper begins by looking in general terms at the conjunction of religious and national identities in the context of national landscapes before moving on to consider in more detail one particular instance of this in the writing of H.J. Massingham. Massingham's understanding of a divine natural order, h…Read more
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