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16The Social Power of Environmental EthicsDialogue and Universalism 20 (11-12): 51-76. 2010.Environmental ethics has an identity and public image problem. Unlike the other applied ethics subfields like biomedical or business ethics, environmental ethics is surprisingly devalued and even rejected as a possible contributor to confronting effectively the global environmental crisis by anti-environmental philosophers and public policy analysts. Thus, environmental ethics has many critics, both within and outside of philosophy, who strongly challenge the contemporary, practical social relev…Read more
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7Against The Oneness of Love: Karen Warren's Complementary Conception of Love and its Relation to Oneness and Care for the EnvironmentEthics and the Environment 28 (1): 37-53. 2023.Abstract:In this essay, I argue for what I term, following Karen Warren's wording, "a complementary love conception," and advocate for her non-dominating, non-self-centered, complementary love conception, in part, to refute the arrogant "oneness" or fusion ideal of love that is hegemonic and deeply embedded in the Western patriarchal worldview. I attempt to clarify the concept of "oneness" by distinguishing among its distinct types of meaning by drawing upon the work of Phillip J. Ivanhoe who an…Read more
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5Why “Need-Blind” Admissions is InadequateJournal for Peace and Justice Studies 6 (1): 15-29. 1995.
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40The Social Power of Environmental EthicsDialogue and Universalism 20 (11-12): 51-76. 2010.Environmental ethics has an identity and public image problem. Unlike the other applied ethics subfields like biomedical or business ethics, environmental ethics is surprisingly devalued and even rejected as a possible contributor to confronting effectively the global environmental crisis by anti-environmental philosophers and public policy analysts. Thus, environmental ethics has many critics, both within and outside of philosophy, who strongly challenge the contemporary, practical social relev…Read more
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38Can Environmental Ethics 'Solve' Environmental Problems and Save the World? Yes, but First We Must Recognise the Essential Normative Nature of Environmental ProblemsEnvironmental Values 12 (4): 489-514. 2003.What is the nature of environmental problems? This article attempts to illuminate this question by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution. It does this by examining and criticising the argument contained in a recent issue of Environmental Values asserting that environmental ethics does not have a role to play in solving environmental problems. The major point made in this rebuttal article is that environmental problems are essentially n…Read more
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ConfuciusIn Peter F. Cannavò & Joseph H. Lane (eds.), Engaging nature: environmentalism and the political theory canon, The Mit Press. 2014.
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48Zhang Zai's Cosmology of Qi/qi and the Refutation of Arrogant Anthropocentrism: Confucian Green Theory IllustratedEnvironmental Values 31 (5): 533-554. 2022.This essay seeks to demonstrate the following: 1. the value of metaphysical cosmology to our relationship with nature, and to making policy about the environment; 2. the mistaken nature and harmful consequences of the hegemonic cosmology of anthropocentrism; and, 3. the possibility of Zhang Zai's Qi/qi Great Harmony cosmology as both the refutation of and replacement for anthropocentrism. The essay concludes that ultimate moral progress of expanding the self from the narrow and exclusionary view…Read more
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127Reviews : The limits to economic growth: politicizing advanced industrialized societyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 8 (1): 86-113. 1981.
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17To be, or not to be scientific in political inquiryPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 14 (1): 73-82. 1984.
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2Review Essays : Can Marxism Help Biology? (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20 (4): 467-482. 1990.
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19Review essays : Can marxism help biology?Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20 (4): 467-482. 1990.
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San Francisco State UniversityDepartment of Political Science (with Cross-listed Teaching With Philosophy)Professor
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