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9Two Conceptions of Embracing Ecological Change in Ecosystem Management and Species Conservation: Accommodation and InterventionIn Luca Valera & Juan Carlos Castilla (eds.), Global Changes: Ethics, Politics and Environment in the Contemporary Technological World, Springer Verlag. pp. 79-87. 2019.In this chapter I consider two different perspectives on what it means to acknowledge and embrace anthropogenic ecological change with respect to ecosystem management and species conservation. On one view, embracing anthropogenic change involves taking greater responsibility for and control of the ecological future. We ought to use our best science and technology to thoughtfully and intentionally manage, and where necessary design and modify, ecological systems and species. On another view, embr…Read more
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9The Value of Species and the Ethical Foundations of Assisted ColonizationConservation Biology 24 (2). 2009.Discourse around assisted colonization focuses on the ecological risks, costs, and uncertainties associated with the practice, as well as on its technical feasibility and alternative approaches to it. Nevertheless, the ethical underpinnings of the case for assisted colonization are claims about the value of species. A complete discussion of assisted colonization needs to include assessment of these claims. For each type of value that species are thought to possess it is necessary to determine wh…Read more
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8Environmental Virtue EthicsIn , Wiley. 2013.Environmental ethics (see Environmental Ethics) is the study of the ethical relationships between human beings and the natural environment, including the nonhuman individuals that populate and constitute it. It involves developing a proper understanding of the human–nature relationship, identifying the goods and values that are part of or emerge from that relationship, determining the norms (rules/principles) that those goods and values justify, and applying those norms to generate guidance on e…Read more
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6Nanotechnology and Social ContextBulletin of Science, Technology and Society 27 (6): 446-454. 2007.The central claims defended in this article are the following: (a) The social and ethical challenges of nanotechnology can be fully identified only if both the characteristic features of nanotechnologies and the social contexts into which they are emerging are considered. (b) When this is done, a host of significant social context issues, or issues that arise as a result of problematic features of the social contexts into which nanotechnology is emerging, become salient. (c) These issues can onl…Read more
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4Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of VirtueEnvironmental Values 15 (1): 135-138. 2006.
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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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2With Respect for Nature: Living as Part of the Natural WorldEnvironmental Values 15 (4): 536-538. 2006.
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1Environmental Virtue EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.Environmental ethics is the study of the ethical relationships between human beings and the natural environment, including the nonhuman individuals that populate and constitute it. It involves developing a proper understanding of the human–nature relationship, identifying the goods and values that are part of or emerge from that relationship, determining the norms that those goods and values justify, and applying those norms to generate guidance on environmental issues and interactions. Environm…Read more
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1Spinoza's Ethical TheoryDissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 2001.This dissertation is a systematic study of Spinoza's ethical system as a virtue ethic. Spinoza's ethical theory has been under-appreciated in this regard and has therefore been virtually ignored by contemporary virtue ethicists who have looked almost exclusively to the ancients as a source of insight regarding the virtues. With my dissertation I aim both to contribute to Spinoza scholarship and to provide an historical resource to contemporary ethicists working in the area of virtue. ;The disser…Read more
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An Ethical Theory Analysis of the Food System DiscourseIn Kirill Thompson & Paul Thompson (eds.), Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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Review of Paul B. Thompson, Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective (review)Environmental Values 16 (4): 544-547. 2007.
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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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