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    Graham Parkes
    Environmental Values 32 (6): 798-800. 2023.
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    Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (edited book)
    with Albert Borgmann, Holly Jean Buck, Wylie Carr, Forrest Clingerman, Maialen Galarraga, Benjamin Hale, Ashley Mercer, Konrad Ott, Clare Palmer, Ronald Sandler, Patrick Taylor Smith, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Kyle Powys Whyte
    Lexington Books. 2012.
    Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management is a wide-ranging and expert analysis of the ethics of the intentional management of solar radiation. This book will be a useful tool for policy-makers, a provocation for ethicists, and an eye-opening analysis for both the scientist and the general reader with interest in climate change
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    The widely-heralded arrival of the “Anthropocene” era seems to call the existence and value of the natural world into question. Is the world prior to human alteration of it something worth preserving? Can and should we attempt to restore ecological conditions prior to human disturbance? Ecological restoration has traditionally used the past as a reference point in establishing standards and assessing the value of restored landscapes. In many landscapes, however, the traditional notion of histori…Read more
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    Guest Editors' Introduction to the 2021 ISEE Special Issue
    with Allen Thompson
    Environmental Ethics 44 (3): 193-194. 2022.
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    Intergenerational Ethics, Moral Ambivalence, and Climate Change
    The Harvard Review of Philosophy 29 69-88. 2022.
    Global climate change raises critical issues of intergenerational ethics. One of these issues involves what Stephen Gardiner calls intergenera­tional buck-passing (IGBP)—a pattern through which each generation does little to address climate change and instead passes the problem along to the next, progressively amplifying the climate crisis over time. My goal in this paper to explore two key questions: (1) What is at the root of intergenera­tional buck-passing? and (2) What changes might help to …Read more
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    Intergenerational Ethics, Climate Change, and Moral Ambivalence
    The Harvard Review of Philosophy 29 69-88. 2022.
    Global climate change raises critical issues of intergenerational ethics. One of these issues involves what Stephen Gardiner calls intergenera­tional buck-passing (IGBP)—a pattern through which each generation does little to address climate change and instead passes the problem along to the next, progressively amplifying the climate crisis over time. My goal in this paper to explore two key questions: (1) What is at the root of intergenera­tional buck-passing? and (2) What changes might help to …Read more
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    Editors' Introduction to the 2020 ISEE Special Issue
    with Allen Thompson
    Environmental Ethics 44 (1): 3-4. 2022.
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    Although scientists began to speculate about manipulating solar radiation to influence global climate more than a century ago, sustained discussion of climate engineering in r...
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    Environmental Ethics: The State of the Question
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 59 (3): 270-308. 2021.
    The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 270-308, September 2021.
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    Ethics, Adaptation, and the Anthropocene
    Ethics, Policy and Environment 24 (1): 60-74. 2021.
    Some proponents of the Anthropocene argue that it is time adopt a future-oriented outlook: natural baselines no longer matter, and humans should remake the planet for the better. This raises questions about whose vision should guide such remaking, and whether the past deserves any consideration in adapting for the future. I argue that the past remains relevant, because the natural, cultural, and social worlds people enter into – shaped by those who came before us – matter. On this view, there ar…Read more
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    Consequential Choices in a Challenging Time
    Environmental Values 30 (1): 1-5. 2021.
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    Adapting Environmental Ethics to Rapid, Anthropogenic, and Global Ecological Change
    with Allen Thompson
    Environmental Ethics 42 (2): 99-101. 2020.
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    Geoengineering Justice: The Role of Recognition
    Science, Technology, and Human Values 44 (3): 448-477. 2019.
    Global-scale solar geoengineering raises critical ethical questions, including questions of distributive, procedural, and intergenerational justice. Although geoengineering is sometimes framed as a response to injustice, insofar as it might benefit those most vulnerable to climate-related harms, geoengineering also has the potential to exacerbate climate injustice, especially if control of research, governance, and potential plans for deployment remains concentrated in the hands of a few. The sc…Read more
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    The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy (review)
    The Philosophers' Magazine 88 107-109. 2020.
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    1. Hiding the World in the World: A Case for Cosmopolitanism Based in the Zhuangzi
    In Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames (eds.), Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 15-33. 2019.
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    Questions of Knowledge and Non-Knowledge
    Environmental Values 28 (4): 397-403. 2019.
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    Mark Woods, Rethinking Wilderness
    Environmental Values 28 (3): 385-387. 2019.
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    ABSTRACTIn recent work, Joshua Horton and David Keith argue on distributive and consequentialist grounds that research into solar radiation management geoengineering is justified because the resulting knowledge has the potential to benefit everyone, particularly the ‘global poor.’ I argue that this view overlooks procedural and recognitional justice, and thus relegates to the background questions of how SRM research should be governed. In response to Horton and Keith, I argue for a multidimensio…Read more
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    Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture (edited book)
    with David G. Havlick
    Oup Usa. 2015.
    Restoring Layered Landscapes explores ecological restoration in complex landscapes, where ecosystems intertwine with important sociopolitical meanings.
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    Theories as tools: a pluralistic approach to ecological modeling
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (3): 594-601. 2005.
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    Tradition and morality in the analects: A reply to Hansen
    Journal of Chinese Philosophy 31 (4). 2004.
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    Theories as tools: a pluralistic approach to ecological modeling
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (3): 594-601. 2005.
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    Addressing the Harms of Climate Change: Making Sense of Loss and Damage
    Ethics, Policy and Environment 20 (2): 125-128. 2017.
    In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Impacts are due to observed climate change, irrespective of its cause...
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    Should Darwinians Be Moral Skeptics? (review)
    Metascience 16 (2): 315-319. 2007.
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    Gillian Barker. Beyond Biofatalism: Human Nature for An Evolving World (review)
    Environmental Philosophy 14 (1): 143-146. 2017.
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    Revising Responsibility in a Proposal for Greenhouse Development Rights
    Ethics, Place and Environment 12 (3): 291-295. 2009.
    The Greenhouse Development Rights developed by Paul Baer, Sivan Kartha, Tom Athanasiou, and Eric Kemp-Benedict are grounded in two fundamental ethical considerations: caus...