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    Individualist Biocentrism vs. Holism Revisited
    Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 9 (2): 130-148. 2014.
    While holist views such as ecocentrism have considerable intuitive appeal, arguing for the moral considerability of ecological wholes such as ecosystems has turned out to be a very difficult task. In the environmental ethics literature, individualist biocentrists have persuasively argued that individual organisms—but not ecological wholes—are properly regarded as having a good of their own . In this paper, I revisit those arguments and contend that they are fatally flawed. The paper proceeds in …Read more
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    Rolston's Theory of Value
    In Christopher J. Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk (ed.), Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III, Springer. 2007.
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    Virtue and respect for nature: Ronald Sandler's character and environment (review)
    with Allen Thompson and Ronald Sandler
    Ethics, Place and Environment 11 (2). 2008.
    Ron Sandler's Character and Environment is a very welcome addition to the growing literature on virtue-based approaches to environmental ethics. In the book...
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    Environmental Ethics
    In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
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    Anthropocentrism in Climate Ethics and Policy
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 40 (1): 189-204. 2016.
    Most ethicists agree that at least some nonhumans have interests that are of direct moral importance. Yet with very few exceptions, both climate ethics and climate policy have operated as though only human interests should be considered in formulating and evaluating climate policy. In this paper I argue that the anthropocentrism of current climate ethics and policy cannot be justified. I first describe the ethical claims upon which my analysis rests, arguing that they are no longer controversial…Read more