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    This article discusses the encounter between virtue ethics and environmental ethics and the ways in which environmental virtue ethics confronts nonhuman axiology and the controversial theme of moral anthropocentrism. It provides a reasoned review of the relevant literature and a historical–conceptual rendition of how environmental and virtue ethics came to converge as well as the ways in which they diverge. It explains that contrary to important worries voiced by some non-anthropocentric environ…Read more
  • Conclusion
    In Pellegrino Gianfranco & Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer Nature. pp. 1291-1295. 2023.
    This short chapter brings the Handbook to a close. It gathers basic takeaways from the volume and offers some general reflections on climate change, the philosophy of climate change and its futures, and the experience of editing a Handbook on the Philosophy of Climate Change.
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    Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change (edited book)
    with Pellegrino Gianfranco
    Springer Nature. 2023.
    This Handbook offers a broad yet unified treatment of many philosophical issues connected with climate change, ranging from foundational puzzles to detailed applications. It extends to many branches of philosophy that are relevant to the understanding of the premises and implications of the impacts of climate change on human and nonhuman life on Earth. More specifically, the handbook examines the scientific accounts of climate change as well as its causes. It explores the tools offered by social…Read more
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    Climate Change and Anti-Meaning
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 26 (5): 709-724. 2023.
    In this paper, we propose meaningfulness as one important evaluative criterion in individual climate ethics and suggest that most of our greenhouse gas emitting actions, behaviours, and lives are the opposite of meaningful: anti-meaningful. We explain why such actions etc. score negatively on three important dimensions of the meaningfulness scale, which we call the agential, narrative, and generative dimensions. We suggest that thinking about individual climate ethics also in terms of (anti-) me…Read more
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    Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change (edited book)
    with Gianfranco Pellegrino
    Springer. 2023.
    This Handbook offers a broad yet unified treatment of all the philosophical issues connected with climate change, ranging from foundational puzzles to detailed applications. It addresses the philosophical foundations of the discussion on the ethical, social, political and legal impacts of climate change. It covers all branches of philosophy that are relevant to the understanding of the premises and implications of the impacts on human, animal and natural life on Earth. More specifically, the Han…Read more
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    Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change (edited book)
    with Gianfranco Pellegrino
    Springer. 2023.
    This Handbook offers a broad yet unified treatment of all the philosophical issues connected with climate change, ranging from foundational puzzles to detailed applications. It addresses the philosophical foundations of the discussion on the ethical, social, political and legal impacts of climate change. It covers all branches of philosophy that are relevant to the understanding of the premises and implications of the impacts on human, animal and natural life on Earth. More specifically, the Han…Read more
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    The Disorienting Aesthetics of Mashed-Up Anthropocene Environments
    with Serena Ciccarelli
    Environmental Values 31 (1): 85-106. 2022.
    This paper describes the disorienting aesthetics of some environments that are characteristic of the Anthropocene. We refer to these environments as 'mashed-up' and present three dimensions - phenomenological, epistemological and narrative - of the aesthetic disorientation they can trigger. We then advance the suggestion that a rich, nuanced and meaningful aesthetic experience of mashed-up Anthropocene environments (MAEs) calls for a mode of appreciation grounded on performative practices of aes…Read more
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    Le virtů ambientali e il paradigma del giardino
    Società Degli Individui 39 61-76. 2010.
    Il saggio difende l'idea che i contesti piů congeniali allo sviluppo e all'esercizio di un carattere virtuoso dal punto di vista ambientale siano i giardini e che il modo migliore per sviluppare ed esercitare tale carattere sia conservare specie botaniche, coltivandone esemplari con le proprie mani. La coltivazione di un giardino permette, e richiede, una certa comprensione e accettazione di importanti dimensioni del rapporto uomo-natura, le quali innescano comportamenti positivi che, consolidan…Read more
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    Antropocene e democrazia
    Società Degli Individui 65 39-56. 2019.
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    Plant Ethics: Concepts and Applications (edited book)
    with Angela Kallhoff and Maria Schörgenhumer
    Routledge. 2018.
    Large parts of our world are filled with plants, and human life depends on, interacts with, affects and is affected by plant life in various ways. Yet plants have not received nearly as much attention from philosophers and ethicists as they deserve. In environmental philosophy, plants are often swiftly subsumed under the categories of "all living things" and rarely considered thematically. There is a need for developing a more sophisticated theoretical understanding of plants and their practical…Read more
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    ​This book proposes and defends the practice of urban gardening as an ecologically and socially beneficial, culturally innovative, morally appropriate, ethically uplifting, and politically incisive way for individuals and variously networked collectives to contribute to a successful management of some defining challenges of the Anthropocene – this new epoch in which no earthly place, form, entity, process, or system escapes the reach of human activity – including urban resilience and climate cha…Read more
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    Climate Change and Moral Corruption
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (1). 2013.
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  • Sospensione riproduttiva temporanea: etica delle popolazioni e cambiamento climatico
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 57-78. 2012.
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    Cosmopolitanism in a Gridlocked World
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.
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    Temporary Reproductive Suspension: Population Ethics and Climate Change
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 57-78. 2012.
    This paper focuses on a specific proposal connected with the issue of mitigating climate change by reducing GHG concentrations in the atmosphere. The idea of campaigning in favour of a temporary reproductive suspension, to be addressed to a range of citizens of developed countries , is explored. Some details of the proposal are specified, and the proposal itself is defended against four objec- tions: 1. that it encroaches reproductive freedom; 2. that it subtracts from the overall value the valu…Read more
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    Environmental Stewardship, Moral Psychology and Gardens
    Environmental Values 22 (4): 503-521. 2013.
    Vast and pervasive environmental problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss call every individual to active stewardship. Their magnitude and causal and strategic structures, however, pose powerful challenges to our moral psychology. Stewardship may feel overburdening, and appear hopeless. This may lead to widespread moral and political disengagement. This article proposes a resolve to garden practices as a way out of that danger, and describes the ways in which it will motivate indivi…Read more
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    Virtues for the Anthropocene
    Environmental Values 24 (2): 183-207. 2015.
    The paper discusses some difficulties that life in Anthropocene poses to our ethical thinking. It describes the sort of ethical task that individuals find themselves confronting when dealing with the planetary environmental quandaries that characterise the new epoch. It then asks what, given the situation, would count as environmentally virtuous ways of looking at and going about our lives, and how relevant virtues can be developed. It is argued that the practice of gardening is distinctively co…Read more
  • Climate Change and Human Rights (edited book)
    with Daanika Kamal
    Global Policy / Wiley-Blackwell. 2015.
  • Il saggio difende l'idea che i contesti più congeniali allo sviluppo ed e- sercizio di un carattere virtuoso dal punto di vista ambientale siano i giar- dini – e il modo migliore per sviluppare ed esercitare tale carattere sia con- servare specie botaniche, coltivandone esemplari con le proprie mani. La coltivazione di un giardino permette, e richiede, una certa comprensione e accettazione di importanti dimensioni del rapporto uomo-natura, le quali innescano comportamenti positivi che, consolida…Read more
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    Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philosophy, religion, and contemporary art and culture. The essays explore alternatives for sustainable development and highlight oft-overlooked issues, such as climate change refugees and food justice. Designed as four parts, the volume: first, offers an astute diagnosis of the political and moral intricacies of climate change; second, deals specifically wi…Read more