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61Value 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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64‘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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319Killing Animals in Animal SheltersIn Palmer Clare Alexandra (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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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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1923Does 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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169Animal 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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168“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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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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48StewardshipIn Ian Ball, Margaret Goodall, Clare Palmer & John Reader (eds.), The Earth Beneath, Spck. pp. 67-87. 1992.
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549Place-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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35« 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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605Technology 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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491Religion 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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23Landscape 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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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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103Does Nature matter? The place of the non-human in the ethics of climate changeIn Denis G. 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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Animality in Foucault's Madness and CivilizationIn Matthew Calarco & Peter Atterton (eds.), Animal Philosophy: Essential Writings in Theory and Culture, Continuum. pp. 72-84. 2004.
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18“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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31Assisted Colonization is No Panacea, but Let's Not Discount it EitherEthics, Policy and Environment 16 (1): 16-18. 2013.Ronald Sandler's ‘Climate change and ecosystem management’ provides a fine summary of reasons to modify our approach to ecosystem management given ‘rapid and uncertain ecological change’. We...
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47Response to “Vulnerability, Dependence, and Special Obligations to Domesticated Animals” by Elijah WeberJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28 (4): 695-703. 2015.This paper responds to Elijah Weber’s “Vulnerability, Dependence, and Special Obligations to Domesticated Animals: A Reply to Palmer”. Weber’s paper develops significant objections to the account of special obligations I developed in my book Animal Ethics in Context, in particular concerning our obligations to companion animals. In this book, I made wide-ranging claims about how we may acquire special obligations to animals, including being a beneficiary of an institution that creates vulnerable…Read more
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8Teaching Environmental Ethics (edited book)Brill. 2006.This collection explores a variety of questions, both of a theoretical and practical nature, raised by teaching environmental ethics. Questions considered move from asking whether teaching environmental ethics should include environmental advocacy, to practical issues about texts, syllabi and teaching techniques.
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