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    Ethics, Narrative, and Agriculture: Transforming Agricultural Practice through Ecological Imagination (review)
    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 24 (3): 283-303. 2011.
    The environmental degradation caused by industrial agriculture, as well as the resulting social and health consequences, creates an urgency to rethink food production by expanding the moral imagination to include agricultural practices. Agricultural practices presume human use of the earth and acknowledge human dependence on the biotic community, and these relations mean that agriculture presents a separate set of considerations in the broader field of environmental ethics. Many scholars and act…Read more
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    This book is an exploration of human understanding, from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, biology and theology. The six contributors are among the most internationally eminent in their fields. Though scholarly, the writing is non-technical. No background in psychology, philosophy or theology is presumed. No other interdisciplinary work has undertaken to explore the nature of human understanding. This book is unique, and highly significant for anyone interested in or concerned about th…Read more
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    Using Aldo Leopold's essay The Land Ethic I argue that Leopold's land ethic provides a consistent and dynamic paradigm for how we perceive and protect the natural environment. The land ethic implies that people interested in conservation must develop an understanding of what is necessary for conservation through experience with nature. Experiencing nature allows us to enter into a relationship with the land and develop sound judgment in our ecological decision-making. Invasive species have becom…Read more
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    A widespread view of Plato's thought on poetry is that Plato was extremely hostile to poetry and that he wanted it banned from the state. It seems certain that Plato believed that poetry could corrupt the minds of the citizens and give them a false view of the gods. I explore what I think are three reasons for rejecting the ubiquitous view and accepting a more nuanced view of Plato's aesthetics. The use by Socrates in the REPUBLIC of a feverish city to demonstrate how justice is to be found in t…Read more