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30The ethics of metropolitan growth: A frameworkPhilosophy and Geography 7 (2). 2004.Although debates about the shape and future of the built environment are usually cast in economic and political terms, they also have an irreducible ethical component that stands in need of careful examination. This paper is the report of an exploratory study in descriptive ethics carried out in Atlanta, Georgia. Archival sources and semi-structured interviews provide the basis for identifying and sorting the diverse value judgments and value conflicts that come into play in a rapidly growing me…Read more
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4Why Ecology Cannot Be All Things to All PeopleEnvironmental Ethics 19 (4): 375-390. 1997.On the basis of a model of the development of scientific concepts as analogous to the “adaptive radiation” of organisms, I raise questions concerning the speculative project of many environmental philosophers, especially insofar as that project reflects on the relationship between ecology (the science) and ecologism (the worldview or ideology). This relationship is often understood in terms of anopposition to the “modern” worldview, which leads to the identification of ecology as an ally or as a…Read more
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28Mindful Conservatism: Rethinking the Ideological and Educational Basis of an Ecologically Sustainable Future (review)Environmental Ethics 29 (2): 217-218. 2007.
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23Darwinian Humanism: A Proposal for Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental Values 16 (1). 2007.There are two distinct strands within modern philosophical ethics that are relevant to environmental philosophy: an empiricist strand that seeks a naturalist account of human conduct and a humanist strand rooted in a conception of transcendent human freedom. Each strand has its appeal, but each also raises both strategic and theoretical problems for environmental philosophers. Based on a reading of Kant's critical solution to the antinomy of freedom and nature, I recommend that environmental phi…Read more
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56Transitory PlacesEnvironmental Philosophy 9 (1): 95-108. 2012.As a contribution to an experiential approach to environmental ethics, I seek to incorporate into the experience of place a sense of the passing of time across multiple scales. This may spur the recognition that places we are pleased to experience as stable backdrops for our projects may be transitory, in the short or long term, with important consequences for ethical deliberation. The occasion for this essay is a visit to the Karori Sanctuary in Wellington, New Zealand, the site of an ambitious…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |