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    Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
    with Forrest Clingerman
    Routledge. 2011.
    Placing Nature furthers the dialogue on religion, ethics, and the environment by exploring three interrelated concepts: to recreate, to replace and to restore. This book self-consciously reflects on the intersections of environmental philosophy, environmental theology, and religion and ecology, stressing the importance of how place interprets us and how we interpret place. This work is a unique volume in its serious engagement with theology and religious studies on the issues of ecological resto…Read more
  • This dissertation investigates the current theoretical debate in cognitive science between classical cognitivism and connectionism. The investigation includes an historical, an exegetical and a critical component. The purpose in the historical section is to determine the debate's origins and thus provide a larger historical perspective without which it is impossible to appreciate the debate's substance and significance. This section traces the debate's origins to the 1930s and 1940s. It was duri…Read more
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    The Architecture of Solitude
    Environment, Space, Place 1 (1): 53-72. 2009.
    As a spiritual or meditative practice solitude implies more than mere silence or being alone. While these are perhaps indispensablecomponents, it is possible to be alone or to live in silence and nevertheless be unable to reconfigure these into genuine solitude. Solitude is also more than being in some remote or inaccessible place. Even though geographical isolation might be conducive to solitude, with rare exceptions human beings have seldom sought solitude in complete seclusion in the wilderne…Read more