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    Politics of Nature (review)
    Environmental Ethics 28 (2): 221-224. 2006.
  • Environment
    In John Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Routledge. 2010.
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    The Moral Standing of Natural Objects
    Environmental Ethics 6 (1): 35-56. 1984.
    Human beings are, as far as we know, the only animals to have moral concerns and to adopt moralities, but it would be a mistake to be misled by this fact into thinking that humans are also the only proper objects of moral consideration. I argue that we ought to allow even nonliving things a significant moral status, thus denying the condusion of much contemporary moral thinking. First, I consider the possibilityof giving moral consideration to nonliving things. Second, I put forward grounds whic…Read more
  •  32
    Moral Pluralism and the Environment
    Environmental Values 1 (1). 1992.
    Cost-benefit analysis makes the assumption that everything from consumer goods to endangered species may in principle be given a value by which its worth can be compared with that of anything else, even though the actual measurement of such value may be difficult in practice. The assumption is shown to fail, even in simple cases, and the analysis to be incapable of taking into account the transformative value of new experiences. Several kinds of value are identified, by no means all commensurabl…Read more
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    Condition of Identity: A Study in Identity and Survival
    Studia Logica 54 (2): 253-256. 1995.
    This book sets out a new theory of the unity of objects. The author introduces the reader to the central problems faced by philosophical accounts of identity, problems which can, to a large extent, be solved using the theory developed in the book. In his consideration of the vexed issue of personal identity, the author argues that in our everyday thinking about persons we merge radically different kinds of notions. He suggests that our assessment of sameness of person is not founded on any deter…Read more
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    Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy (edited book)
    with Nina Witoszek
    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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    Politics of Nature (review)
    Environmental Ethics 28 (2): 221-224. 2006.
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    Environmental ethics
    Stanford 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