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19Designing for CareScience and Engineering Ethics 29 (3): 1-23. 2023.This article introduces Designing for Care (D4C), a distinctive approach to project management and technological design informed by Care Ethics. We propose to conceptualize “care” as both the foundational value of D4C and as its guiding mid-level principle. As a value, care provides moral grounding. As a principle, it equips D4C with moral guidance to enact a caring process. The latter is made of a set of concrete, and often recursive, caring practices. One of the key assumption of D4C is a rela…Read more
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8Ecological Virtuous Selves: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Environmental Virtue Ethic?Philosophies 9 (1): 11. 2024.Existing predominant approaches within virtue ethics (VE) assume humans as the typical agent and virtues as dispositions that pertain primarily to human–human interpersonal relationships. Similarly, the main accounts in the more specific area of environmental virtue ethics (EVE) tend to support weak anthropocentric positions, in which virtues are understood as excellent dispositions of human agents. In addition, however, several EVE authors have also considered virtues that benefit non-human bei…Read more
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39Shallow vs. Deep Geoethics: Moving Beyond Anthropocentric ViewsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 37 (1): 1-18. 2024.At its inception, geoethics was envisioned as a type of professional ethics concerned with the moral implications of geoscientific research, applications, and practices. More recently, however, some scholars have proposed versions of geoethics as public and global ethics. To better understand these developments, this article considers the relationship between geoethics and environmental ethics by exploring different aspects of the human-nature relation (i.e., the moral status and role of humans …Read more
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287Energy Decisions within an Applied Ethics Framework: An Analysis of Five Recent ControversiesEnergy, Sustainability and Society 10 (10): 29. 2020.Everywhere in the world, and in every period of human history, it has been common for energy decisions to be made in an ethically haphazard manner. With growing population pressure and increasing demand for energy, this approach is no longer viable. We believe that decision makers must include ethical considerations in energy decisions more routinely and systematically. To this end, we propose an applied ethics framework that accommodates principles from three classical ethical theories—virtue e…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Environmental Philosophies |
Topics in Environmental Ethics |
Environmental Ethics, Misc |