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Nietzsche als einde en als overgang. Heideggers confrontatie met Nietzsche in de dertiger jarenTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 70 (4): 763. 2008.
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387Ecological Innovation: Biomimicry as a New Way of Thinking and Acting EcologicallyJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 29 (2): 203-217. 2013.In this article, we critically reflect on the concept of biomimicry. On the basis of an analysis of the concept of biomimicry in the literature and its philosophical origin, we distinguish between a strong and a weaker concept of biomimicry. The strength of the strong concept of biomimicry is that nature is seen as a measure by which to judge the ethical rightness of our technological innovations, but its weakness is found in questionable presuppositions. These presuppositions are addressed by t…Read more
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241Being-in-the-World as Being-in-Nature: An Ecological Perspective on Being and TimeStudia Phaenomenologica 14 215-235. 2014.Because the status of nature is ambiguous in Being and Time, we explore an ecological perspective on Heidegger’s early main work in this article. Our hypothesis is that the affordance theory of James Gibson enables us to a) to understand being-in-the-world as being-in-nature, b) reconnect man and nature and c) understand the twofold sense of nature in Being and Time. After exploring Heidegger’s concept of being-in-the-world and Gibson’s concept of being-in-nature, we confront Heidegger’s and Gib…Read more
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267Reconnecting with Nature in the Age of TechnologyEnvironmental Philosophy 11 (2): 307-332. 2014.The relation between Martin Heidegger and radical environmentalism has been subject of discussion for several years now. On the one hand, Heidegger is portrayed as a forerunner of the deep ecology movement, providing an alternative for the technological age we live in. On the other, commentators contend that the basic thrust of Heidegger’s thought cannot be found in such an ecological ethos. In this article, this debate is revisited in order to answer the question whether it is possible to conce…Read more
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Wageningen University and ResearchCommunication, Philosophy and Technology (CPT)Associate Professor
Wageningen, GE, Netherlands
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