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22Landscape and Value in the work of Alfred WainwrightLandscape Research 32 (4): 397-421. 2007.Alfred Wainwright was arguably the best known British guidebook writer of the20th century, and his work has been highly influential in promoting and directing fell-walking in northern Britain, in particular in the English Lake District. His work has, however, received little critical attention. This paper represents an initial attempt to undertake such a study. We examine Wainwright’s work through the lens of the landscape values and aesthetics that, we suggest,underpins it, and by an exploration…Read more
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20Between 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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17Humans 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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17Svoboda, 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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16Don'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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15Temporality and intergenerational thinking in aestheticsStudi di Estetica 24. 2022.Environmental changes on a vast scale have motivated philosophers to consider problems related to intergenerational justice and future generations of people, nonhumans, and the earth they inhabit. How should the field of aesthetics respond? The aim of this special issue of “Studi di Estetica” is to create space for scholars to bring temporality and intergenerational aesthetics more deeply into the field. The articles here are focused on temporality in art, nature, modified environments and relat…Read more
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15The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and NatureCambridge University Press. 2013.In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy, nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its …Read more
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15Environmental Aesthetics and Global Climate ChangeIn Pellegrino Gianfranco & Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer Nature. pp. 395-414. 2023.What are the aesthetic transformations taking place through the effects of global warming and human responses to these effects? How should we conceptualize aesthetic environmental change, especially in the context of intergenerational concern for both nonhumans and humans? As the earth’s systems and its organisms experience climate change, these kinds of questions require an understanding of the aesthetic qualities, meanings, and values of lost species, places, and landscapes, as well as those w…Read more
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13Book Review: The Reach of the Aesthetic: Collected Essays on Art and Nature (review)Environmental Values 12 (1): 129-131. 2003.
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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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10Human-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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5Imagination and Freedom in the Kantian SublimeIn Michael L. Thompson (ed.), Imagination in Kant's Critical Philosophy, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 163-182. 2013.
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5Environment and PhilosophyRoutledge. 1999.Environment and Philosophyprovides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world. These include: * the ideas of science and objectivity * the conventional placement of the human being within the environment * the individualism of convential Modern thought Written in an accessible way for those without a background in philosophy, this text examines ways of thinking about ourselves, nature and …Read more
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3Book Review: Ethics and the Built Environment (review)Environmental Values 11 (4): 509-511. 2002.
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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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The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature: Essays on the Aesthetics of NaturePhilosophical Quarterly 55 (218): 106-113. 2005.
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Adam Smith's Aesthetic PsychologyIn Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin & Mattias Pirholt (eds.), Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics, Routledge. pp. 112-131. 2020.
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Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice (edited book)Springer. 2012.
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IntroductionIn Emily Brady & Pauline Phemister (eds.), Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice, Springer. 2012.