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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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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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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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17“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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5Teaching 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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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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116For their own good: captive cats and routine confinementIn Lori Gruen (ed.), Ethics of Captivity, Oxford University Press. pp. 135-155. 2014.
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21Can - and should - we make reparation to Nature?In William P. Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke & Matther Slater (eds.), The Environment: Philosophy, Science, Ethics, Mit Press. pp. 201-222. 2012.
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53Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1998.In this study, Clare Palmer challenges the belief that the process thinking of writers like A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne has offered an unambiguously positive contribution to environmental ethics. She compares process ethics to a variety of other forms of environmental ethics, as well as deep ecology, and reveals a number of difficulties associated with process thinking about the environment.
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Animal Liberation, Environmental Ethics and DomesticationEnvironmental Values 5 (2): 187-188. 1996.
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127Ethics of WIldife Management and Conservation: What Should we Try To Protect?Nature Education Knowledge 3 (7): 8. 2012.
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2Fat Companions: understanding canine and feline obesity and its effects on welfareIn Michael C. Appleby, Daniel M. Weary & Peter Sandøe (eds.), Dilemmas in Animal Welfare, Cabi International. pp. 28-45. 2014.
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74The Idea of the Domesticated Animal ContractEnvironmental Values 6 (4). 1997.Some recent works have suggested that the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals might be described as contractual. This paper explores how the idea of such an animal contract might relate to key characteristics of social contract theory, in particular to issues of the change in state from 'nature' to 'culture'; to free consent and irrevocability; and to the benefits and losses to animals which might follow from such a contract. The paper concludes that there are important di…Read more
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1Le contrat domestiqueIn Hicham-Stéphane Afeissa & Jean-Baptsite Jeangène Vilmer (eds.), Philosophie animale. Différence, éthique et communauté, Vrin. pp. 333-373. 2010.
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8Review of Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea and Leonard Kahn (eds.), Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics (review)Environmental Values 24 (2): 259-261. 2015.
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95Environmental EthicsAnnual Review of Environment and Resources 39 419-442. 2014.Environmental ethics—the study of ethical questions raised by human relations with the nonhuman environment—emerged as an important subfield of philosophy during the 1970s. It is now a flourishing area of research. This article provides a review of the secular, Western traditions in the field. It examines both anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric claims about what has value, as well as divergent views about whether environmental ethics should be concerned with bringing about best consequences,…Read more
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57Colonization, urbanization, and animalsPhilosophy and Geography 6 (1). 2003.Urbanization and development of green spaces is continuing worldwide. Such development frequently engulfs the habitats of native animals, with a variety of effects on their existence, location and ways of living. This paper attempts to theorize about some of these effects, drawing on aspects of Foucault's discussions of power and using a metaphor of human colonization, where colonization is understood as an "ongoing process of dispossession, negotiation, transformation, and resistance." It argue…Read more
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135An Overview of Environmental EthicsIn Holmes Rolston & Andrew Light (eds.), Environmental Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 15-37. 2002.
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104Animal Disenhancement and the Non-Identity Problem: A Response to ThompsonNanoEthics 5 (1): 43-48. 2011.In his paper The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken problem (Nanoethics 2:305–316, 2008) Paul Thompson argues that the possibility of disenhancing animals in order to improve animal welfare poses a philosophical conundrum. Although many people intuitively think such disenhancement would be morally impermissible, it’s difficult to find good arguments to support such intuitions. In this brief response to Thompson, I accept that there’s a conundrum here. But I argue…Read more
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122What (If Anything) Do We Owe Wild Animals?Between the Species 16 (1): 4. 2013.It’s widely agreed that animal pain matters morally – that we shouldn’t, for instance, starve our animal companions, and that we should provide medical care to sick or injured agricultural animals, and not only because it benefits us to do so. But do we have the same moral responsibilities towards wild animals? Should we feed them if they are starving, and intervene to prevent them from undergoing other forms of suffering, for instance from predation? Using an example that includes both wild and…Read more
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153The moral relevance of the distinction between domesticated and wild animalsIn Beauchamp Tom & Frey R. G. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics,, Oxford University Press. pp. 701-725. 2011.This article considers whether a morally relevant distinction can be drawn between wild and domesticated animals. The term “wildness” can be used in several different ways, only one of which (constitutive wildness, meaning an animal that has not been domesticated by being bred in particular ways) is generally paired and contrasted with“domesticated.” Domesticated animals are normally deliberately bred and confined. One of the article's arguments concerns human initiatives that establish relation…Read more
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44Saving Species but Losing Wildness: Should We Genetically Adapt Wild Animal Species to Help Them Respond to Climate Change?Midwest Studies in Philosophy 40 (1): 234-251. 2016.
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31Inconvenient Desires: Should we routinely neuter companion animals?Anthrozoos 25 (1): 153-172. 2012.Influential parts of the veterinary profession, and notably the American Veterinary Medicine Association, are promoting the routine neutering of cats and dogs that will not be used for breeding purposes. However, this view is not universally held, even among representatives of the veterinary profession. In particular, some veterinary associations in Europe defend the view that when reproduction is not an issue, then neutering, particularly of dogs, should be decided on a case-by-case basis. How…Read more
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18Quantum physics, 'postmodern scientific worldview' and Callicott's environmental ethicsIn Wayne Ouderkirk & J. Hill (eds.), Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 171-184. 2002.
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107Contested frameworks in environmental ethicsIn Ricardo Rozzi, Steward Pickett, Clare Palmer, Juan Armesto & J. Baird Callicott (eds.), Linking ecology and ethics for a changing world, Springer. pp. 191-206. 2014.This paper provides an overview of some key, and contrasting, ideas in environmental ethics for those unfamiliar with the field. It outlines the ways in which environmental ethicists have defended different positions concerning what matters ethically, from those that focus on human beings (including issues of environmental justice and justice between generations) to those who argue that non-human animals, living organisms, ecosystems and species have some kind of moral status. The paper also con…Read more
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1437Harm to Species? Species, Ethics, and Climate Change: The Case of the Polar BearNotre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 23 (2): 587-604. 2009.
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