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Environmental AestheticsIn J. Baird Callicott & Robert Frodeman (eds.), The encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy, Macmillan Reference. pp. 313--321. 2008.
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9Between Nature and Culture: The Aesthetics of Modified EnvironmentsRowman & Littlefield International. 2018.This book provides a systematic, philosophical account of the main issues that pertain to the aesthetics of modified environments, as well as new insights concerning the generation and appreciation of landscapes and environments that fall between nature and culture, including gardens and ecologically restored landscapes.
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7Topiary: Ethics and aestheticsEthics and the Environment 8 (1): 127-142. 2003.: In this paper we discuss ethical and aesthetic questions in relation to the gardening practice of topiary. We begin by considering the ethical concerns arising from the uneasiness some appreciators might feel when experiencing topiary as a manipulation or contortion of natural processes. We then turn to ways in which topiary might cause an 'aesthetic affront' through the humanizing effects of sentimentality and falsification of nature (most often found in representational rather than abstract …Read more
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17Melancholy as an aesthetic emotionContemporary Aesthetics 1. 2003.In this article, we want to show the relevance and importance of melancholy as an aesthetic emotion. Melancholy often plays a role in our encounters with art works, and it is also present in some of our aesthetic responses to the natural environment. Melancholy invites aesthetic considerations to come into play not only in well-defined aesthetic contexts but also in everyday situations that give reason for melancholy to arise. But the complexity of melancholy, the fact that it is fascinating in …Read more
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13Environmental Aesthetics and RewildingEnvironmental Values 26 (1): 31-51. 2017.This paper explores the practice of rewilding and its implications for environmental aesthetic values, qualities and experiences. First, we consider the temporal dimensions of rewilding in regard to the emergence of particular aesthetic qualities over time, and our aesthetic appreciation of these. Second, we discuss how rewilding potentially brings about difficult aesthetic experiences, such as the unscenic and the ugly. Finally, we make progress in critically understanding how rewilding may be …Read more
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Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice (edited book)Springer. 2012.
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10Svoboda, Toby. Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic. New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 186. $148.00Ethics 127 (4): 967-972. 2017.
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2Book Review: The Reach of the Aesthetic: Collected Essays on Art and Nature (review)Environmental Values 12 (1): 129-131. 2003.
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5Human-Environment Relations: Transformative Values in Theory and Practice (edited book)Springer. 2012.This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between humans and the world around them in an ethical communicative zone called ‘value-space’. The contributors examine the transformative interplay between external environments and human values, and identify concrete ways in which these norms, resid…Read more
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16Aesthetic regard for nature in environmental and land artEthics, Place and Environment 10 (3). 2007.Recent work in environmental ethics has seen a pragmatic turn that emphasises the importance of developing positive relationships with nature through practices involved in, for example, ecological restoration and community gardens. This article explores whether environmental and land art-making encourages positive aesthetic-moral relationships between nature and humans. It critically examines a particular type of aesthetic objection to these kinds of artworks and defends the work of Robert Smith…Read more
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18Don't Eat the Daisies: Disinterestedness and the Situated AestheticEnvironmental Values 7 (1). 1998.In debates about nature conservation, aesthetic appreciation is typically understood in terms of valuing nature as an amenity, something that we value for the pleasure it provides. In this paper I argue that this position, what I call the hedonistic model, rests on a misunderstanding of aesthetic appreciation. To support this claim I put forward an alternative model based on disinterestedness, and I defend disinterestedness against mistaken interpretations of it. Properly understood, disinterest…Read more
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43Imagination and the aesthetic appreciation of natureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (2): 139-147. 1998.
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14Adam Smith's ''Sympathetic Imagination'' and the Aesthetic Appreciation of EnvironmentJournal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (1): 95-109. 2011.This paper explores the significance of Adam Smith's ideas for defending non-cognitivist theories of aesthetic appreciation of nature. Objections to non-cognitivism argue that the exercise of emotion and imagination in aesthetic judgement potentially sentimentalizes and trivializes nature. I argue that although directed at moral judgement, Smith's views also find a place in addressing this problem. First, sympathetic imagination may afford a deeper and more sensitive type of aesthetic engagement…Read more
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6Don't Eat the Daisies: Disinteredness and the Situated AestheticEnvironmental Values 7 (1): 97-114. 1998.In debates about nature conservation, aesthetic appreciation is typically understood in terms of valuing nature as an amenity, something that we value for the pleasure it provides. In this paper I argue that this position, what I call the hedonistic model, rests on a misunderstanding of aesthetic appreciation. To support this claim I put forward an alternative model based on disinterestedness, and I defend disinterestedness against mistaken interpretations of it. Properly understood, disinterest…Read more
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12Humans in the land. The ethics and aesthetics of the cultural landscape Oslo: Oslo Academic PressEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 45 173-193. 2010.
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13Aesthetic Value, Ethics and Climate ChangeEnvironmental Values 23 (5): 551-570. 2014.Philosophical discussions of climate change have mainly conceived of it as a moral or ethical problem, but climate change also raises new challenges for aesthetics. In this paper I show that, in particular, climate change (1) raises difficult questions about the status of aesthetic judgments about the future, or 'future aesthetics'; and (2) puts into relief some challenging issues at the intersection of aesthetics and ethics. I maintain that we can rely on aesthetic predictions to enable us to g…Read more
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11Aesthetic character and aesthetic integrity in environmental conservationEnvironmental Ethics 24 (1): 75-91. 2002.Aesthetics plays an important role in environmental conservation. In this paper, I pin down two key concepts for understanding this role, aesthetic character and aesthetic integrity. Aesthetic character describes the particularity of an environment based on its aesthetic and nonaesthetic qualities. In the first part, I give an account of aesthetic character through a discussion of its subjective and objective bases, and I argue for an awareness of the dynamic nature of this character. In the sec…Read more
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9Aesthetic concepts: essays after Sibley (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2001.Exploring key topics in contemporary aesthetics, this work analyzes the issues that arise from the unique works of Frank Sibley (1923-1996), who developed a distinctive aesthetic theory through a number of papers published between 1955 and 1995. Here, thirteen philosophical aestheticians bring Sibley's insight into a contemporary framework, exploring the ways his ideas foster important new discussion about issues in aesthetics. This collection will interest anyone interested in philosophy, art t…Read more
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23Aesthetics in Practice: Valuing the Natural WorldEnvironmental Values 15 (3). 2006.Aesthetic value, often viewed as subjective and even trivial compared to other environmental values, is commonly given low priority in policy debates. In this paper I argue that the seriousness and importance of aesthetic value cannot be denied when we recognise the ways that aesthetic experience is already embedded in a range of human practices. The first area of human practice considered involves the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and the development of an ethical attitude t…Read more
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11Aesthetic Character and Aesthetic Integrity in Environmental ConservationEnvironmental Ethics 24 (1): 75-91. 2002.Aesthetics plays an important role in environmental conservation. In this paper, I pin down two key concepts for understanding this role, aesthetic character and aesthetic integrity. Aesthetic character describes the particularity of an environment based on its aesthetic and nonaesthetic qualities. In the first part, I give an account of aesthetic character through a discussion of its subjective and objective bases, and I argue for an awareness of the dynamic nature of this character. In the sec…Read more
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18Aesthetics of the natural environmentUniversity of Alabama Press. 2003.Emily Brady provides a systematic account of aesthetics in relation to the natural environment, offering a critical understanding of what aesthetic appreciation ...
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3Humans in the land: the ethics and aesthetics of the cultural landscape (edited book)Unipub. 2008.The concept of cultural landscape was first put to use by the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel in 1895. The American geographer Carl Sauer was probably the first to use the concept in the English language in 1925. In recent years, the concept of cultural landscape has become significant in social and political decision-making, and in environmental management and preservation. Cultural landscape has also become the object of extensive consideration and discussion within diverse academic discipl…Read more
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7Aesthetics and NatureBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (1): 114-117. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)