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100How Much Land Can Be Included in a National Monument?—Analyzing the “Smallest Area Compatible" Requirement in The Antiquities ActEnvironmental Law 53 (4): 707-746. 2023.The Antiquities Act gives the president the power to designate “objects of historic or scientific interest” as “national monuments.” Presidents have used this power expansively, protecting massive tracts of federal land, often by claiming that very large things, such as the Grand Canyon or even entire landscapes, are “objects” in the requisite sense. There is legal debate over such uses of the Act, with critics arguing that they depart from the original intent and meaning of the legislation. …Read more
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25Call for Papers The Good, the Beautiful, the Green: Environmentalism and AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (2): 113-113. 2017.
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18Searching for the just shrinking city in Flint, MichiganIn Ian Smith & Matt Ferkany (eds.), Environmental Ethics in the Midwest: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Michigan State University Press. pp. 43-68. 2022.Populations in many Midwest cities are declining. To maintain infrastructure with a shrinking tax base, city planners have sometimes proposed to right size such cities, sometimes shutting down or removing infrastructure. Such proposals have been met with fierce resistance among many residents, especially in communities with a history of top-down, racialized city planning. This raises the question: if population loss is a near certainty, is it possible to shrink justly? Much work on environme…Read more
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402How Final and Non-Final Valuing DifferThe Journal of Ethics 26 (4): 683-704. 2022.How does valuing something for its own sake differ from valuing an entity for the sake of other things? Although numerous answers come to mind, many of them rule out substantive views about what is valuable for its own sake. I therefore seek to provide a more neutral way to distinguish the two valuing attitudes. Drawing from existing accounts of valuing, I argue that the two can be distinguished in terms of a conative-volitional feature. Focusing first on “non-final valuing”—i.e. valuing_ x_ for…Read more
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29Genre View of Public Lands: The Case of National MonumentsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (1): 4-14. 2023.In this article, I begin developing what I call the genre view of public lands. It holds that public land designations fall into different genres of land management. I focus on one designation in particular—US national monuments created under the Antiquities Act—to develop the view and illustrate its significance. I characterize the national monument genre in terms of two norms stated in the Act and show how they shape public space in distinctive ways. I then illustrate how the genre view opens …Read more
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10Endre Szécsényi (ed.), Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and His Legacy (review)Environmental Values 31 (1): 107-109. 2022.
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11Stecker, Robert. Intersections of Value: Art, Nature, and the Everyday. Oxford University Press, 2019, 192 pp., $55.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (1): 114-117. 2020.
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63No Intrinsic Value? No ProblemEnvironmental Ethics 42 (2): 119-133. 2020.Heirlooms and memorabilia are sometimes thought to be valuable for their own sakes even if they lack intrinsic value. They can have extrinsic final value, meaning that they can be valuable for their own sakes on account of their relation to other things. Yet if heirlooms and memorabilia can have this sort of value, then perhaps so can natural entities. If correct, this idea secures the claim that nature is valuable for its own sake without requiring that it have a normative property just in itse…Read more
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20Stecker, Robert. Intersections of Value: Art, Nature, and the Everyday. Oxford University Press, 2019, 192 pp., $55.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (1): 114-117. 2020.The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 114-117, Winter 2020.
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38Aesthetic and Historical Values—Their Difference and Why It MattersEnvironmental Values 29 (5): 519-536. 2020.Aesthetic and historical values are commonly distinguished from each other. Yet there has not been sustained discussion of what, precisely, differs between them. In fact, recent scholarship has focused on various ways in which the two are related. I argue, though, that historical value can differ in an interesting way from aesthetic value and that this difference may have significant implications for environmental preservation. In valuing something for its historical significance, it need not al…Read more
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56An Account of Extrinsic Final ValueJournal of Value Inquiry 54 (3): 479-492. 2020.A number of writers argue that objects can be valuable for their own sakes on account of their extrinsic features. No one has offered an account, though, that shows exactly how or why objects have this sort of value. I seek to provide such an account. I suggest that an object can have final value on account of its relation to someone one loves or admires, where it is one’s warranted love or admiration for the person that renders the related object valuable for its own sake. I identify a feature …Read more
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38Introduction to “The Good, the Beautiful, the Green: Environmentalism and Aesthetics”Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (4): 391-397. 2018.In most circles today, it is taken to be an uncontroversial fact that human beings are having an impact on Earth's climate, and one that is exceedingly worrisom.
Levi Tenen
Kettering University
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Kettering UniversityAssistant Professor
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Normative Ethics |
Environmental Ethics |
Aesthetics |