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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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48StewardshipIn Ian Ball, Margaret Goodall, Clare Palmer & John Reader (eds.), The Earth Beneath, Spck. pp. 67-87. 1992.
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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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552Place-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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2Against the view that we are normally required to assist wild animalsRelations 3 (2): 203-210. 2015.
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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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36« 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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609Technology 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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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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495Religion 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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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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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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32Assisted 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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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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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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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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22Can - and should - we make reparation to Nature?In William P. Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke & Matthew H. Slater (eds.), The Environment: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics, Mit Press. pp. 201-222. 2012.
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54Environmental 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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134Ethics 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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76The 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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