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29Naturalness: Is the “Natural” Preferable to the “Artificial”?Environmental Ethics 38 (2): 241-244. 2016.
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27Svein Anders Noer Lie, Philosophy of Nature: Rethinking NaturalnessEnvironmental Values 26 (1): 111-113. 2017.
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25Artefacts and Functions: A Note on the Value of NatureEnvironmental Values 2 (3): 223-232. 1993.This paper examines and compares the ontological and axiological character of artefacts – human creations – with nonhuman natural entities. The essential difference between artefacts and natural entities is that the former are always the result of human intention and design, while the latter are independent of human purpose. Artefacts have functions ; natural entities do not. The connection to human intentional purpose implies a different kind of value for artefacts. Artefacts are evaluated sole…Read more
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23Autonomous Nature: Problems of Prediction and Control from Ancient Times to the Scientific RevolutionEnvironmental Ethics 40 (1): 93-94. 2018.
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23Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany, Jonathan Olsen , 208 pp., $45 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 15 (1): 219-222. 2001.
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22Organism, Community, and the "Substitution Problem"Environmental Ethics 7 (3): 241-256. 1985.Holistic accounts of the natural environment in environmental ethics fail to stress the distinction between the concepts of comnlunity and organism. Aldo Leopold’s “Land Ethic” adds to this confusion, for it can be interpreted as promoting either a community or an organic model of nature. The difference between the two concepts lies in the degree of autonomy possessed by constituent entities within the holistic system. Members within a community are autonomous, while the parts of an organism are…Read more
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22Methodology in Applied Environmental Ethics: Comments on Dombrowski and FinsenBetween the Species 4 (1): 6. 1988.
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16Six TreesEnvironmental Ethics 45 (2): 175-197. 2023.Consider the existence of six identical trees of the same species across a variety of environments. The first tree is in a wild and isolated landscape. The second is in a wilderness park. The third is in a heavily forested “tree plantation” owned by International Paper. The fourth is in the Ramble in Central Park. The fifth is in a suburban yard. The sixth is inside the six-story atrium of a Manhattan skyscraper. This paper begins with the intuition that the identical trees have different values…Read more
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16The philosophy of deep ecology originated in the 1970s with the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess and has since spread around the world. Its basic premises are a belief in the intrinsic value of nonhuman nature, a belief that ecological principles should dictate human actions and moral evaluations, an emphasis on noninterference into natural processes, and a critique of materialism and technological progress.This book approaches deep ecology as a philosophy, not as a political, social, or environ…Read more
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15Holmes Rolston, III, Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind (review)Environmental Ethics 34 (3): 313-316. 2012.
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15Philosophy and Geography I: Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1996.The inaugural collection in an exciting new exchange between philosophers and geographers, this volume provides interdisciplinary approaches to the environment as space, place, and idea. Never before have philosophers and geographers approached each other's subjects in such a strong spirit of mutual understanding. The result is a concrete exploration of the human-nature relationship that embraces strong normative approaches to environmental problems
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14What the Heck Cattle Have to Do with Environmentalism: Rewilding and the Continuous Project of the Human Management of NatureEthics, Policy and Environment. forthcoming.In the 1920s and 1930s, an attempt was made to resurrect the aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius), the extinct wild ancestor of contemporary domestic cattle. The back-bred species that was produced are called ‘Heck cattle’. I argue that the attempt to create the Heck cattle as a form of resurrected aurochs, and their subsequent use in rewilding projects (as in the Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands) is a prime example of the continuous human project of the domination of nature. The consider…Read more
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13Dale Jamieson: Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed—And What It Means for Our FutureEnvironmental Ethics 37 (2): 255-256. 2015.
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12Utilitarianism and PreservationEnvironmental Ethics 1 (4): 357-364. 1979.In “The Concept of the Irreplaceable,” John N. Martin claims that utilitarian arguments can explain the environmentalist position concerning the preservation of natural objects as long as human attitudes toward preservation are considered along with the direct benefits of environmental preservation. But this type of utilitarian justification is biased in favor of the satisfaction of human preferences. No ethical theory which calculates goodness in terms of the amount of human satisfaction can pr…Read more
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9Understanding Moral Limits in the Duality of Artifacts and Nature: A Reply to CriticsEthics and the Environment 7 (1): 138-146. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ethics & the Environment 7.1 (2002) 138-146 [Access article in PDF] Understanding Moral Limits in the Duality of Artifacts and NatureA Reply to Critics Eric Katz Ned Hettinger and Wayne Ouderkirk present some cogent criticisms of my ideas in environmental ethics, especially those ideas closely associated with my attacks on the process of ecological restoration. Both trace the source of my alleged problems to a pernicious dualism of n…Read more
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7Authenticity and Place The authenticity of place in culture and nature: thoughts on the Holocaust in the Spanish synagogue of VenicePhilosophy and Geography 5 (2). 2002.
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6Is There a Place for Animals in the Moral Consideration of Nature?Ethics and Animals 4 (3). 2011.
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