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5Review of John R. E. Bliese. The Greening of Conservative America (review)Environmental Ethics 25 (2): 221-222. 2003.
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33Failures of imagination: Stuck and out of luck in the american metropolisEthics, Place and Environment 11 (1). 2008.Ethical choice and action in the built environment are complicated by the fact that moral agents often get stuck as they pursue their goals. A common way of getting stuck has its roots in human cognition: the failure of moral imagination, which shows most clearly when moral agents stand on either side of a sharp cultural divide, like the traditional divide between city and suburb. Being stuck is akin to bad moral luck: it is a situation beyond the control of the moral agent for which that agent …Read more
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22Navigating Bioethical Waters: Two Pilot Projects in Problem-Based Learning for Future Bioscience and Biotechnology ProfessionalsScience and Engineering Ethics 22 (6): 1649-1667. 2016.We believe that the professional responsibility of bioscience and biotechnology professionals includes a social responsibility to contribute to the resolution of ethically fraught policy problems generated by their work. It follows that educators have a professional responsibility to prepare future professionals to discharge this responsibility. This essay discusses two pilot projects in ethics pedagogy focused on particularly challenging policy problems, which we call “fractious problems”. The …Read more
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113Robert Elliott, faking nature: The ethics of environmental restoration (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 34 (1): 129-133. 2000.
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47Through the looking-glass: Environmentalism and the problem of freedom (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 36 (1): 29-43. 2002.
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4Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper, eds. The Natural City: Re-Envisioning the Built Environment (review)Environmental Ethics 35 (4): 503-504. 2013.
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9Darwinian Humanism and the End of NatureEnvironmental Values 18 (2). 2009.Darwinian humanism proposes that environmental philosophers pursue their work in full recognition of an irreducible ambiguity at the heart of human experience: we may legitimately regard moral action as fully free and fully natural at the same time, since neither perspective can be taken as the whole truth. A serious objection to this proposal holds that freedom and nature may be unified as an organic whole, and their unity posited as a matter of substantive truth, by appeal to teleology. In par…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |