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    A Pragmatist Philosophy of History by Marnie Binder (review)
    The Pluralist 19 (1): 112-116. 2024.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:A Pragmatist Philosophy of History by Marnie BinderPiers H. G. StephensA Pragmatist Philosophy of History Marnie Binder. Lexington Books, 2023.Looking at current scholarship and opinion in American philosophy, one can easily conclude that there has been much more work done on studying the history of pragmatist philosophy than there has been on what pragmatist philosophy can give to the study of history. Ever since the res…Read more
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    Book Review: The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right (review)
    Environmental Values 33 (1): 90-92. 2024.
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    A Message from the Editor
    Ethics and the Environment 28 (2): 1-1. 2023.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Message from the EditorPiers H.G. Stephens, EditorIt is now six years since this journal’s founding editor Victoria Davion sadly succumbed to premature fatal illness and I took over her editorial duties under the most unfortunate of circumstances. I stated publicly then that Vicky’s vision for the character and purpose of the journal would remain unchanged under my watch, and in keeping with that pledge, I am now pleased to announc…Read more
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    Plumwood, property, selfhood and sustainability
    Ethics and the Environment 14 (2). 2009.
    In her final book, Environmental Culture as well as elsewhere, Val Plumwood advances the view that sustainability should properly be seen as emergent from an ecofeminist partnership ethic of nourishment and support between humans and nonhuman nature, and that such an ethic must replace the characteristic institutional structures and dominant conceptions of rationality found in capitalist modernity. In making this case, Plumwood impressively charts the impact and significance of the expansionist,…Read more
  • Value, Nature and the Subject-Object Divide. PhD thesis, Centre for Philosophy and the Environment
    Dissertation, Centre for Philosophy and the Environment, University of Manchester. 1997.
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    Hubris, Humility, History and Harmony: Human Belonging and the Uses of Nature.
  • Green Liberalisms: Nature, Agency and the Good
    Environmental Politics 10 (3): 1-22. 2001.
  • Contemporary Environmental Politics
    with John Barry and Andrew Dobson
    Environmental Values 16 (4): 542-544. 2007.
  • A Space for Place: Pragmatic Naturalism, Particularity and the Politics of Nature.
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Pragmatic Environmentalism: Towards a Rhetoric of Eco-Justice by Shane J. RalstonPiers H.G. Stephens (bio)Pragmatic Environmentalism: Towards a Rhetoric of Eco-Justice Shane J. Ralston. Leicester, UK: Troubadour Publishing Ltd, 2013. Xxxv + 146 pages.But no word could protect the doctrine from critics so blind to the nature of the enquiry that, when Dr. Schiller speaks of ideas ‘working’ well, the only thing they think of…Read more
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    in a stimulating and rich address, Brook Muller diagnoses some of the problems and challenges that our ecological crises bring to contemporary architecture, and attempts to break out of the conceptual straitjacket of modernism that he sees as contributing to the difficulty of producing original, promising solutions. In particular, he draws attention to the hugely pervasive role of Le Corbusier’s idea of the house as a machine for living in: here, he suggests, Le Corbusier’s enduring influence is…Read more
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    Vladimir Bibikhin, The Woods
    Environmental Values 30 (6): 783-785. 2021.
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    Pragmatism, Pluralism, Empiricism and Relational Values
    Environmental Values 30 (6): 661-668. 2021.
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ethics & The Environment 25th Anniversary Issue:Introduction from the EditorPiers H.G. StephensAt the time that Vicky Davion conceived of and launched Ethics and the Environment twenty-five years ago, environmental philosophy was still struggling for acceptance and respectability as a philosophical subdiscipline. For most of the period since 1979 just one journal, Environmental Ethics, had been the primary beacon of the field, and a …Read more
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    Norton Versus Callicott on Interpreting Aldo Leopold: A Jamesian View
    In Ben A. Minteer & Sahotra Sarkar (eds.), A Sustainable Philosophy—the Work of Bryan Norton, Springer Verlag. pp. 113-133. 2018.
    Since Bryan Norton first advocated an American pragmatist reading of Aldo Leopold’s work in 1988, he has been debating with J. Baird Callicott over interpretation of Leopold’s development of the land ethic. In this chapter I give an overview of this debate, defending the general outlines of Norton’s position by bringing in new interpretative work of my own. I argue firstly that Norton is correct to see a Jamesian pragmatist influence on Leopold, but maintain that this is best read as deriving fr…Read more
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    Introduction
    Ethics and the Environment 23 (2): 1. 2018.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:IntroductionPiers H.G. StephensThis special issue of Ethics and the Environment is dedicated to the philosophical contributions of our founding editor, Victoria Davion, who launched the journal in 1996 and edited it until shortly before her death in November 2017. Vicky was a pioneering figure in ecofeminist philosophy, as well as being both the first woman to become a full professor and the first to be chair of the Philosophy Depart…Read more
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