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Environmental Political Theory and the Liberal TraditionIn Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer & David Schlosberg (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, Oxford University Press Uk. 2016.This chapter discusses the history of environmental concern within the liberal tradition from the latter’s roots onwards, moving from the private property orientated “old liberalism” of John Locke into the self-development orientated “new liberalism” of John Stuart Mill, then onwards into American pragmatism and the neutralist liberalism of John Rawls and his contemporary followers. This leads into an overview of the current debate, which started in the 1990s, over the possibilities of synthesiz…Read more
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20A 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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5Book Review: The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right (review)Environmental Values 33 (1): 90-92. 2024.
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1Book Review: Democratic Ideals and the Politicization of Nature: The Roving Life of a Feral Citizen (review)Environmental Values 23 (3): 358-361. 2014.
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1Book Review: The End of Over-consumption: Towards a Lifestyle of Moderation and Self-restraint (review)Environmental Values 13 (2): 263-266. 2004.
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5A Message from the EditorEthics 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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39Plumwood, property, selfhood and sustainabilityEthics 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
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Value, Nature and the Subject-Object Divide. PhD thesis, Centre for Philosophy and the EnvironmentDissertation, Centre for Philosophy and the Environment, University of Manchester. 1997.
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Stephens, Piers. Review of J. Baird Callicott, Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental Values 10. 2001.
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Review of: Laura Westra and Bill E. Lawson (eds.), Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (review)Environmental Politics 11 (4). 2002.
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Review of Wayne Ouderkirk and Jim Hill (eds.), Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy (review)Organization and Environment 16 (2). 2003.
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2Hubris, Humility, History and Harmony: Human Belonging and the Uses of NatureEnvironmental Politics 11. 2002.Hubris, Humility, History and Harmony: Human Belonging and the Uses of Nature.
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A space for place: Pragmatic naturalism, particularity and the politics of natureEnvironmental Politics 11 168-173. 2002.A Space for Place: Pragmatic Naturalism, Particularity and the Politics of Nature.
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26Review of Pragmatic Environmentalism: Towards a Rhetoric of Eco-Justice by Shane J. Ralston (review)Ethics and the Environment 19 (1): 123. 2014.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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12Green Leviathan or the Poetics of Political Liberty: Navigating Freedom in the Age of Climate Change and Artificial IntelligenceEnvironmental Values 32 (3): 371-374. 2023.
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John Stuart MillIn Peter F. Cannavò & Joseph H. Lane (eds.), Engaging nature: environmentalism and the political theory canon, The Mit Press. 2014.
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Nature, liberty, and ontology : why nature experience still exists and matters in the AnthropoceneIn Christopher J. Orr & Kaitlin Kish (eds.), Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet, Routledge. 2019.
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12Keith R. Peterson, A World Not Made for Us: Topics in Critical Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental Values 31 (5): 622-624. 2022.
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10Christine Harold, Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable WorldEnvironmental Values 31 (3): 371-373. 2022.
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30Comments on Brook Muller’s "The Machine Is a Watershed for Living In (Reconstituting Architectural Horizons)"The Pluralist 11 (1): 101-109. 2016.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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20Pragmatism, Pluralism, Empiricism and Relational ValuesEnvironmental Values 30 (6): 661-668. 2021.
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17Roger S. Gottlieb, Morality and the Environmental CrisisEnvironmental Values 30 (2): 255-257. 2021.
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11Ethics & the Environment 25th Anniversary Issue: Introduction from the EditorEthics and the Environment 25 (1): 1. 2020.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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12Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout, eds.: Mastery of Nature: Promises and ProspectsEnvironmental Ethics 40 (4): 405-408. 2018.
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21Arran Gare, The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A Manifesto for the FutureEnvironmental Values 28 (2): 253-255. 2019.
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24Norton Versus Callicott on Interpreting Aldo Leopold: A Jamesian ViewIn 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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16IntroductionEthics 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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