• New York University
    Department of Philosophy
    Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies Program
    Other faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
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    The Idea of a Political Liberalism: Essays on Rawls
    with Samantha Brennan, Claudia Card, Bernard Dauenhauer, Marilyn A. Friedman, Richard Arneson, Clark Wolf, Robert Nagle, James Nickel, Christoph Fehige, Norman Daniels, and Robert Noggle
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.
    In this unique volume, some of today's most eminent political philosophers examine the thought of John Rawls, focusing in particular on his most recent work. These original essays explore diverse issues, including the problem of pluralism, the relationship between constitutive commitment and liberal institutions, just treatment of dissident minorities, the constitutional implications of liberalism, international relations, and the structure of international law. The first comprehensive study of …Read more
  • Book Reviews (review)
    Environmental Values 1 (3): 269-270. 1992.
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    This collection gathers a set of central papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change.
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    Tainted Cash?
    The Philosophers' Magazine 3 26-27. 1998.
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    Values in Nature
    In R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.
    This chapter contains sections titled: A Typology of Values An Alternative View An Objection Conclusion.
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    Tainted Cash?
    The Philosophers' Magazine 3 (3): 26-27. 1998.
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    Counting the Cost of Global Warming
    with John Broome
    Philosophical Quarterly 46 (183): 263. 1996.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Justin Leiber, W. J. Talbott, Anthony Dardis, Douglas Dempster, John Snapper, Denise Dellarosa Cummins, Michael Wheeler, Harry Heft, Donald Levy, Lindley Darden, and Alastair Tait
    Philosophical Psychology 8 (4): 389-431. 1995.
    Speaking: from Intention to Articulation Willem J. M. Levelt, 1989 (1993 paperback) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press ISBN: 0–262–12137–9(hb), 0–262–62089–8(pb)Rules for Reasoning Richard E. Nisbett (Ed.), 1993 Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ISBN: 0–8058–1256–3(hb), 0–8085–1257–1 (pb)Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Alvin I. Goldman, 1993 Cambridge, MA, MIT Press ISBN: 0–262–07153–3(hb), 0–262–57100–5(pb)Language Comprehension in Ape and Child, Monographs of the Society for Resear…Read more
  • Forward
    In Christopher J. Orr & Kaitlin Kish (eds.), Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet, Routledge. 2019.
  • Junk Science and Environmental Policy: Obscuring Public Debate with Misleading Discourse
    with Charles Herrick
    Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 21 11-17. 2001.
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    10 zoos revisited
    In Sophie Grace Chappell (ed.), The Philosophy of the Environment, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 180-192. 1997.
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    The human relationship to nature is a deeply ambiguous one. Human animals are both a part of nature and distinct from it. They are part of nature in the sense that, like other forms of life, they were brought into existence by natural processes, and, like other forms of life, they are dependent on their environment for survival and success. Yet humans are also reflective animals with sophisticated cultural systems. Because of their immense power and their ability to wield it intentionally, human…Read more
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    Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals
    Philosophical Review 130 (2): 315-319. 2021.
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    Le sfide morali e politiche del cambiamento climatico
    Società Degli Individui 39 35-43. 2010.
    Il cambiamento climatico globale pone sfide senza precedenti ai nostri modi di concepire la morale e la politica. Siamo abituati a vedere un problema morale in situazioni in cui un individuo chiaramente identificabile intenzionalmente ne danneggi un altro, a sua volta chiaramente identificabile; e in cui sia gli individui coinvolti, sia il danno in questione, stiano tra loro in una relazione spazio-temporale di vicinanza. Il cambiamento climatico globale danneggerÀ senz'altro milioni di persone,…Read more
  • Gilmour, John C. Fire on The Earth: Anselm Kiefer and The Postmodern World
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (2): 164-164. 1992.
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    Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: The Movement Image
    with Barbara James
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 46 (3): 436-436. 1988.
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    Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
    Science, Technology and Human Values 17 (2): 139-153. 1992.
    There are many uncertainties concerning climate change, but a rough international consensus has emerged that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from its pre-industrial baseline is likely to lead to a 2.5 degree centigrade increase in the earth's mean surface temperature by the middle of the next century. Such a warming would have diverse impacts on human activities and would likely be catastrophic for many plants and nonhuman animals. The author's contention is that the problems engendered…Read more
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    In his classic article, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, pp. 229–243), Peter Singer claimed that affluent people in the developed world are morally obligated to transfer large amounts of resources to poor people in the developing world. For present purposes I will not call Singers argument into question. While people can reasonably disagree about exactly how demanding morality is with respect to duties to the desperate, there is little question in my mind that it is much more demanding than comm…Read more
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    Readings in Animal Cognition (edited book)
    with Marc Bekoff
    MIT Press. 1996.
    Table of Contents Perspectives on Animal Cognition Chapter 1 The Myth of Anthropomorphism John Andrew Fisher Chapter 2 Gendered Knowledge? Examining Influences on Scientific and Ethological Inquiries Lori Gruen Chapter 3 Interpretive Cognitive Ethology Hugh Wilder Chapter 4 Concept Attribution in Nonhuman Animals: Theoretical and Methodological Problems in Ascribing Complex Mental Processes Colin Allen and Marc Hauser Cognitive and Evolutionary Explanations Chapter 5 On Aims and Methods of Cogni…Read more
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    Ethics, Public policy, and global warming
    Global Bioethics 5 (1): 31-42. 1992.
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    Loving Nature
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (4): 485-495. 2018.
    Drawing inspiration from Iris Murdoch, I develop a systematic account of love that countenances love beyond persons. I then show how this account applies to nature, and explain why loving nature matters.
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    Animal Agency
    The Harvard Review of Philosophy 25 111-126. 2018.
    The rise of physicalism and naturalism, the development of cognitive science, and the explosion and popularization of knowledge about animal behavior has brought us to see that most of the properties that were once thought to distinguish humans from other animals are shared with other animals. Many people now see properties that are morally relevant to how it is permissible to treat animals, such as sentience, as widely distributed. Agency, however, is one area in which the retreat from human un…Read more
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    The Moral Status of Animals (review)
    Noûs 15 (2): 230. 1981.