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21Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy—the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess's vision, which has deepened and broadened to include third…Read more
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712Environmental ethicsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its nonhuman contents. This entry covers: (1) the challenge of environmental ethics to the anthropocentrism (i.e., humancenteredness) embedded in traditional western ethical thinking; (2) the early development of the discipline in the 1960s and 1970s; (3) the connection of deep ecology, feminist environmental ethics, and social e…Read more
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12Who legislates the truth? Science, organizational governance, and democratic decision makingPublic Affairs Quarterly 24 (1): 79-97. 2010.There has been a strong tendency in recent years, in countries such as Australia and the United States, for governmental and corporate spokespersons to present advice and information that comes from independent scientific sources as if it were no better grounded than that from any other source. Such a leveling out of all advice and information into mere “opinion” has been a key strategy in the assertion of corporate and governmental control over public debate and policy. In this paper, we aim to…Read more
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145Necessary and sufficient conditionsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.Describes the received theory of necessary and sufficient conditions, explains some standard objections to it, and lays out alternative ways of thinking about conditions and conditionals.
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18Deep EcologyIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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46Poverty, Puritanism and Environmental ConflictEnvironmental Values 7 (3): 305-331. 1998.The paper proposes two ideas: (1) The wilderness preservation movement has failed to identify key elements involved in situations of environmental conflict. (2) The same movement seems unaware of its location within a tradition which is both elitist and Puritan. Holmes Rolston's recent work on the apparent conflict between feeding people and saving nature appears to exemplify the two points. With respect to point (1), Rolston's treatment fails to address the institutional and structural features…Read more
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
General Philosophy of Science |