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7Ecology, ethics, and the future of humanityPalgrave-Macmillan. 2015.Nature's intrinsic value: a forgotten philosophy of the environment -- Looming ecofascisms in the value of nature -- Two paradoxes of practical philosophy -- The essence of an ecological philosophy -- The conditions of selfhood -- Discovering active nature in the subject -- Ecological selfhood, ecological life.
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226The Very Being of a Conceptual Scheme: Disciplinary and Conceptual Critiques (review)Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7 (11): 53-59. 2018.Book review of: Jeff Kochan (2017), Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
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31Lessons for the Relationship of Philosophy and Science From the Legacy of Henri BergsonSocial Epistemology 30 (2): 213-226. 2016.One of the many narratives of twentieth century philosophy regards the relationship of philosophy to science: the opinions and arguments over whether philosophy as a discipline should be an assistant, critic, or master over science, and what particular ways philosophy could articulate these roles. One can interpret most of the major conflicts and disciplinary divisions of philosophy as having to do with its relationship with science. The conceptual roots of the general acceptability of a converg…Read more
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30John Dewey as a Philosopher of Contingency and the Value of this Idea for Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental Ethics 33 (4): 395-413. 2011.In recent years, scholars studying the writing of the American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey have attempted to use his ethical ideas to construct a viable environmental ethics. This endeavor has found limited success and generated some intriguing debates, but has been found wanting in many areas important to environmental ethicists of the twenty-first century. In particular, the humanist motivations behind many of his ethical writings stand in the way of a philosophy that takes nonhumans ser…Read more
Adam Riggio
McMaster University
Anderson College Of Health, Business And Technology
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Anderson College Of Health, Business And TechnologyManagementEducation Manager
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Philosophy of Action |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |