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22Open to debate: Moral consideration and the lab monkeyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (6). 2008.No abstract
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22Gavagai goulash: Growing organs for food: Hale Gavagai goulashThink 5 (15): 61-70. 2007.The suggestion that we might grow human tissue for the dinner table is likely to provoke a ‘yuk’ response in many of us. But would it be morally wrong? Might it not, in fact, be far preferable to the current situation?
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21Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management is a wide-ranging and expert analysis of the ethics of the intentional management of solar radiation. This book will be a useful tool for policy-makers, a provocation for ethicists, and an eye-opening analysis for both the scientist and the general reader with interest in climate change
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20The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2016._The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics_ is comprised of sixty original essays, which focus on how ethical questions intersect with real and pressing policy issues. Rather than overviewing abstract conceptual categories, the authors focus on specific controversies involving the environment. Clearly written contributions on Fossil Fuels, Urban Sustainability, Novel Ecosystems, and many other subjects make accessible these issues‘ empirical and political dimensions as well as their theore…Read more
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20Clowning Around with Conservation: Adaptation, Reparation and the New Substitution ProblemEnvironmental Values 23 (2): 181-198. 2014.In this paper we introduce the 'New Substitution Problem' which, on its face, presents a problem for adaptation proposals that are justified by appeal to obligations of reparation. In contrast to the standard view, which is that obligations of reparation require that one restore lost value, we propose instead that obligations to aid and assist species and ecosystems in adaptation, in particular, follow from a failure to adequately justify - either by absence, neglect, omission or malice - action…Read more
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17Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems consists of thirteen chapters that address the ethical issues raised by technological intervention and design across a broad range of biological and ecological systems. Among the technologies addressed are geoengineering, human enhancement, sex selection, genetic modification, and synthetic biology
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16Geoengineering, Ocean Fertilization, and the Problem of Permissible PollutionScience, Technology, and Human Values 36 (2): 190--212. 2011.Many geoengineering projects have been proposed to address climate change, including both solar radiation management and carbon removal techniques. Some of these methods would introduce additional compounds into the atmosphere or the ocean. This poses a difficult conundrum: Is it permissible to remediate one pollutant by introducing a second pollutant into a system that has already been damaged, threatened, or altered? We frame this conundrum as the ‘‘Problem of Permissible Pollution.’’ In this …Read more
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15Wildness without NaturalnessEthics, Policy and Environment 24 (1): 16-26. 2021.ABSTRACT Some fear the Anthropocene heralds the end of nature, while others argue that nature will persist throughout the Anthropocene. Still others worry that acknowledging the Anthropocene grants humanity broad license to further inject itself into nature. We propose that this debate rests on a conflation between naturalness and wildness. Where naturalness is best understood as fundamentally a metaphysical category, wildness can be better understood as an inter-relational category. The raccoons…Read more
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15From Treasure to Trash: The Lingering Value of Technological ArtifactsScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (2): 619-640. 2020.Electronic waste is the fastest growing form of waste worldwide, associated with a range of environmental, health, and justice problems. Unfortunately, disposal and recycling are hindered by a tendency of consumers to resist recycling their e-waste. This backlog of un-discarded e-waste poses significant challenges for the future. This paper addresses the reasons why many people might continue to value their technological artifacts and therefore to hoard them, suggesting that many of these common…Read more
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15Experience and the Environment: Phenomenology Returns to Earth (review)Human Studies 28 (1): 101-106. 2005.
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10The wild and the wicked: on nature and human natureMIT Press. 2016.A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, malaria, bird flu, cancer, killer asteroids, and tofu. Most of us think that in order to be environmentalists, we have to love nature. Essentially, we should be tree huggers—embracing majestic redwoods, mighty oaks, graceful birches, etc. We ought to eat granola, drive hybrids, cook tofu, and write our appointments in Sierra Club calendars. Nature's splendor, in other words, justifies our protection of i…Read more
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6John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (3): 331-333. 2007.
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Remediation vs. steering : an act-description approach to approving and funding geoengineering researchIn Ronald L. Sandler & John Basl (eds.), Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems, Lexington Books. 2013.
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Can We Remediate Wrongs?In Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea & Leonard Kahn (eds.), Consequentialism and Environemental Ethics, Routledge. pp. 147-163. 2014.
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Technology, the environment, and the moral considerability of artefactsIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Evan Selinger & Søren Riis (eds.), New waves in philosophy of technology, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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Remediation technologies and respect for othersIn David M. Kaplan (ed.), Philosophy, technology, and the environment, The Mit Press. 2017.
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University of Colorado, BoulderAssistant Professor
Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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