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93Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2007.In Character and Environment, Ronald L. Sandler brings together contemporary work on virtue ethics with contemporary work on environmental ethics.
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22Hunting, Fishing, and Environmental Virtue: Reconnecting Sportsmanship and Conservation by Charles J. ListEnvironmental Ethics 36 (3): 373-376. 2014.
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58Game Theory and the Ethics of Global Climate ChangePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (1). 2013.download
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69Environmental Virtue Ethics (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.The first on the topic of environmental virtue ethics, this book seeks to provide the definitive anthology that will both establish the importance of environmental virtue in environmental discourse and advance the current research on environmental virtue in interesting and original ways. The selections in this collection, consisting of ten original and four reprinted essays by leading scholars in the field, discuss the role that virtue and character have traditionally played in environmental dis…Read more
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57Climate Change and Ecosystem ManagementEthics, Policy and Environment 16 (1): 1-15. 2013.This article addresses the implications of rapid and uncertain ecological change, and global climate change in particular, for reserve oriented and restoration oriented ecosystem management. I argue for the following conclusions: (1) rapid and uncertain ecological change undermines traditional justifications for reserve oriented and restoration oriented ecosystem management strategies; (2) it requires rethinking ecosystem management goals, not just developing novel strategies (such as assisted c…Read more
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33The Ethics of Species: An IntroductionCambridge University Press. 2012.Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The value of species; 3. The conservation biology dilemma; 4. Assisted colonization; 5. Shifting goals and changing strategies; 6. The (in)significance of species boundaries; 7. Homo sapiens in particular; 8. Artifactual species; 9. Conclusion.
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21Environmental Ethics and the Need to Motivate Pro-Environmental BehaviorPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 9 (2): 101-105. 2002.In this article I argue that it is appropriate for environmental ethicists to be concerned with the practical efficacy of their arguments. Such a concern follows from a commonly accepted construal of what would constitute an adequate environmental ethic and it finds precedent in the history of philosophy.
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25The External Goods Approach to Environmental Virtue EthicsEnvironmental Ethics 25 (3): 279-293. 2003.If virtue ethics are to provide a legitimate alternative for reasoning about environmental issues, they must meet the same conditions of adequacy as any other environmental ethic. One such condition that most environmental ethicists insist upon is that an adequate environmental ethic provides a theoretical platform for consistent and justified critique of environmentally unsustainable practices and policies. The external goods approach seeks to establish that any genuinely virtuous agent will be…Read more
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66A theory of environmental virtueEnvironmental Ethics 28 (3): 247-264. 2006.If claims about which character traits are environmental virtues are to be more than rhetoric, there must be some basis or standard for evaluation. This naturalistic, teleological, pluralistic, and inclusive account of what makes a character trait an environmental virtue can be such a standard. It is naturalistic because it is consistent with and motivated by scientific naturalism. It is teleological becausecharacter traits are evaluated according to how well they promote certain ends. It is plu…Read more
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1008Identity and distinction in Spinoza's ethicsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2). 2005.In Ethics 1p5, Spinoza asserts that “In Nature there cannot be two or more substances of the same nature or attribute”. This claim serves as a crucial premise in Spinoza’s argument for substance monism, yet Spinoza’s demonstration of the 1p5 claim is surprisingly brief and appears to have obvious difficulties. This paper answers the principle difficulties that have been raised in response to Spinoza’s argument for 1p5. The key to understanding the 1p5 argument lies in a proper understanding of…Read more
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Stephen R. Kellert and Timothy J. Farnham (eds), The Good in Nature and HumanityEnvironmental Values 12 (4): 539-541. 2003.
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3Review of: Westra, Laura and Lawson, Bill E., eds., Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Injustice (review)Environmental Values 12 (4): 543-546. 2003.
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32Book review:Gregory Pence, editor, the ethics of food: A reader for the 21st century. Rowman and Littlefield publishers, 2002. ISBN: 0-7425-1334-3 (PB). XI + 287 pp (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 18 (1): 85-93. 2004.
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56Ignorance and VirtuePhilosophical Papers 34 (2): 261-272. 2005.Julia Driver has argued that there is a class of virtues that are compatible with or even require that an agent be ignorant in some respect. In this paper I argue for an alternative conception of the relationship between ignorance and virtue. The dispositions constitutive of virtue must include sensitivity to human limitations and fallibility. In this way the virtues accommodate ignorance, rather than require or promote it. I develop my account by considering two virtues in particular: tolerance…Read more
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1242Transhumanism, Human Dignity, and Moral StatusAmerican Journal of Bioethics 10 (7): 63-66. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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651The good of non-sentient entities: Organisms, artifacts, and synthetic biologyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44 (4): 697-705. 2013.Synthetic organisms are at the same time organisms and artifacts. In this paper we aim to determine whether such entities have a good of their own, and so are candidates for being directly morally considerable. We argue that the good of non-sentient organisms is grounded in an etiological account of teleology, on which non-sentient organisms can come to be teleologically organized on the basis of their natural selection etiology. After defending this account of teleology, we argue that there are…Read more
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703On the Moral Considerability of Homo sapiens and Other SpeciesEnvironmental Values 15 (1). 2006.It is sometimes claimed that as members of the species Homo sapiens we have a responsibility to promote the good of Homo sapiens itself (distinct from the good of its individual members). Lawrence Johnson has recently defended this claim as part of his approach to resolving the problem of future generations. We show that there are several difficulties with Johnson's argument, many of which are likely to attend any attempt to establish the moral considerability of Homo sapiens or species generall…Read more
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22Food Ethics: The BasicsRoutledge. 2014.Food Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and consumption of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most prominent ethical questions relating to food and agriculture including: • Should we eat animals? • Are locally produced foods ethically superior to globally sourced foods? • Do people in affluent nations have a responsibility to help reduce global hunger? • Should we embrace bioengineered foods? • What should be th…Read more
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44A Theory of Environmental VirtueEnvironmental Ethics 28 (3): 247-264. 2006.If claims about which character traits are environmental virtues are to be more than rhetoric, there must be some basis or standard for evaluation. This naturalistic, teleological, pluralistic, and inclusive account of what makes a character trait an environmental virtue can be such a standard. It is naturalistic because it is consistent with and motivated by scientific naturalism. It is teleological becausecharacter traits are evaluated according to how well they promote certain ends. It is plu…Read more
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499Species Concepts and Natural GoodnessIn Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke & Matthew H. Slater (eds.), Carving Nature at its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science, Mit Press. pp. 289. 2011.This chapter defends a pluralist understanding of species on which a normative species concept is viable and can support natural goodness evaluations. The central question here is thus: Since organisms are to be evaluated as members of their species, how does a proper understanding of species affect the feasibility of natural goodness evaluations? Philippa Foot has argued for a form of natural goodness evaluation in which living things are evaluated by how well fitted they are for flourishing as…Read more
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40Towards an Adequate Environmental Virtue EthicEnvironmental Values 13 (4). 2004.In this article I consider four concerns regarding the possibility of an environmental virtue ethic functioning as an alternative – rather than a supplement – to more conventional approaches to environmental ethics. The concerns are: (1) it is not possible to provide an objective specification of environmental virtue, (2) an environmental virtue ethic will lack the resources to provide critique of obtaining cultural practices and policies, (3) an environmental virtue ethic will not provide suffi…Read more
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40Nanomedicine and Nanomedical EthicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (10): 16-17. 2009.As Fritz Allhoff (2009) argues in the target article, the size, interactive, multifunctional, and precision features that nanoscale science and engineering enables is in the process of redefining m...
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45Culture and the Specification of Environmental VirtuePhilosophy in the Contemporary World 10 (2): 63-68. 2003.One concern about a virtue ethics approach to environmental ethics is that virtue ethics lack the theoretical resources to provide a specification of environmental virtue that does not pander to obtaining cultural practices and conceptions of the human-nature relationship. In this paper I argue that this concern is unfounded.
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33An aretaic objection to agricultural biotechnologyJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 17 (3): 301-317. 2004.Considerations of virtue and character appear from time to time in the agricultural biotechnology literature. Critics of the technologies often suggest that they are contrary to some virtue (usually humility) or do not fit with the image of ourselves and the human place in the world that we ought to embrace. In this article, I consider the aretaic or virtue-based objection that to engage in agricultural biotechnology is to exhibit arrogance, hubris, and disaffection. In section one, I discuss Ga…Read more
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19The National Nanotechnology Initiative and the Social GoodJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 34 (4): 675-681. 2006.The purpose of the National Nanotechnology Initiative is to promote nanotechnology in a way that benefits the citizens of the United States. It involves a commitment to support responsible development of nanotechnology. The NNI's enactment of this commitment is critically assessed. It is concluded that there are not adequate avenues within the NNI by which social and ethical issues can be raised, considered, and, when appropriate, addressed
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202Environmental Virtue Ethics (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.The first on the topic of environmental virtue ethics, this book seeks to provide the definitive anthology that will both establish the importance of environmental virtue in environmental discourse and advance the current research on environmental virtue in interesting and original ways. The selections in this collection, consisting of ten original and four reprinted essays by leading scholars in the field, discuss the role that virtue and character have traditionally played in environmental dis…Read more
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39Private Ownership and Common GoodsPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 12 (2): 1-2. 2005.Balancing, integrating, or otherwise sorting out private ownership, control, and property rights, on the one hand, with social, common, and shared goods or rights, on the other, is manifest in socio-ethical issues ranging from eminent domain to gay marriage and from endangered species protection to social security. In fact, when one surveys the contemporary socio-ethical landscape with this problem in mind, there appears hardly an issue that it does not touch; and it is frequently the central or…Read more
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