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3Climate Change and the Environmental HumanitiesIn Pellegrino Gianfranco & Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer Nature. pp. 337-359. 2023.The aim of this chapter is to sketch some of the contributions of the environmental humanities to an understanding of climate change from the perspective of philosophy. Recently, the environmental humanities have become a recognised area of study, encompassing environmental orientations within the humanities. It is noted that, generally speaking, the humanities engage in a critical and reflective stance regarding ways of understanding the world, while the environmental humanities do so in relati…Read more
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Paul Thom, For An Audience: A Philosophy of the Performing Arts (review)Philosophy in Review 13 274-276. 1993.
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2Paul Thom, For An Audience: A Philosophy of the Performing Arts Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (5): 274-276. 1993.
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Book Review of The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada's West Coast (review)Environmental Ethics 26 205-208. 2004.
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5Rapid Landscape Change, Vulnerability, and Social ResponsibilityNorthern Review 28 95-110. 2008.In this article I explore the relation between vulnerability to rapid landscape change, on the one hand, and conceptions of land and responsibility for landscape, on the other. I begin by briefly discussing the notion of vulnerability to natural phenomena, and possible ways of addressing it. Next, I introduce some of the ways in which natural phenomena and processes have been perceived, and take note of the sense of responsibility toward landscape often expressed among peoples who are deeply roo…Read more
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Northern Plains Boulder Structures: Art and HeterotopiasIn , Routledge. 2007.This chapter considers the potential of this kind of indigenous site-specific installation for thinking afresh the relation of contemporary inhabitants with the land in the Northern Plains region. 'Medicine wheel' is the name given since the late 1800s to a kind of boulder structure found in the Northern Plains of North America. Medicine wheels are often situated on knolls overlooking the prairie, and are mostly found in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and less frequently in Montana and northern Wyomi…Read more
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Environmental Ethics: Responsibilities and Critical PerspectivesIn Societal Responsibilities in the Life Sciences, Kamla-raj Enterprises. pp. 123-130. 2004.
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9Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental CultureRoutledge. 2007.This book argues that an attentive encounter with nature is of key importance for the development of an environmentally appropriate culture. The fundamental idea is that the environmental degradation that we are increasingly experiencing is best conceived as the consequence of a cultural mismatch: our cultures seem not to be appropriate to the natural environment in which we move and on which we depend in thoroughgoing ways. In addressing this problem, Thomas Heyd weaves together a rich tapestry…Read more
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12Re-reading Kant on Free and Adherent BeautyProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 1 121-125. 2018.Paul Guyer has proposed that, despite Kant’s apparent avowals that judgements of beauty of things are made without consideration of the purposes that we have for them, purposes do enter into aesthetic judgements of “adherent beauty.” He even attributes to Kant the view that functionality is a necessary condition for the beauty of objects that have certain ends or functions. I consider his claims and propose that, according to Kant, the degree to which an object fulfills its ends may pose a psych…Read more
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18Pilgrimage Journeying in Matsuo Bashō and Alexander von HumboldtJournal of World Philosophies 4 (1): 23-35. 2019.In this paper I argue that the concept of pilgrimage provides a unifying trope for the otherwise seemingly unfocused travel accounts of Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Interior and Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland’s Voyage aux régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent. I begin with a brief description of debates regarding the notion of pilgrimage. After that I show how pilgrimage as trope may be applied to the texts of these authors. This is followed by an application of the classical stag…Read more
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20Relacionando cultura y naturalezaAzafea: Revista de Filosofia 10 (1). 2008.En las diferentes culturas del mundo, el ambiente natural se percibe de diversas maneras, y en muchas sociedades no se considera como opuestos lo natural y lo cultural. En cuanto que la integridad del medio ambiente natural se ha convertido en algo muy preocupante, hay que preguntarse cómo concebir lo cultural en relación a lo natural para llegar a relacionarnos adecuadamente con la naturaleza. En este ensayo propongo que la naturaleza constituye una categoría importante y distintiva, que puede …Read more
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3El sendero al Japón profundo de Basho y la estética del caminar: recuperando el espacio. reconociendo los lugares, siguiendo los caminos del universoPáginas de Filosofía (Universidad Nacional del Comahue) 9 (11): 7-28. 2004.A causa del transporte de alta velocidad, de las tecnologías de comunicación instantáneas, de la ubicuidad de los teléfonos móviles, del alcance planetario de los programas de televisión transmitidos por satélite, de la inmersión cada vez más acelerada en el ciberespacio, de la globalización del comercio, de la proliferación dé idénticos centros comerciales, cadenas de supermercados, multinacionales, etc., el espacio parece achicarse, los lugares pierden su especificidad, y la naturaleza va desa…Read more
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15Global Bioethics and Environment ProblemsGlobal Bioethics 20 (1-4): 1-7. 2007.Environmental disasters, such as the recent oil spill caused by the sinking of the Prestige off the coast of Spain, constitute problems that call for scientific analysis and political decisions. They open up, moreover, a spectrum of questions that call for an analysis from the perspective of a broadened conception of bioethics.
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13Rock Art Aesthetics and Cultural AppropriationJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (1): 37-46. 2003.
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4Sacred Ecology: Traditional Knowledge and Resource Management (review)Environmental Ethics 22 (4): 419-421. 2000.
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3The Search after Truth (review)Dialogue 39 (2): 410-411. 2000.Much well-deserved praise has been heaped on the Ohio State University Press volume containing Lennon and Olscamp’s translation of Nicolas Malebranche’s De la recherche de la verité and Lennon’s translation of the Éclaircissements, both reprinted in this edition. The Search had been unavailable in English at least since 1720, and these new translations have made possible a reinvigorated study of this major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy.
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27Indigenous knowledge, emancipation and AlienationKnowledge, Technology & Policy 8 (1): 63-73. 1995.
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69Sacred ecology: Traditional knowledge and resource managementEnvironmental Ethics 22 (4): 419-421. 2000.
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44Journal Name: Apeiron Issue: Ahead of print
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19Saber tradicional, ética de la tierra y sustentabilidadIsegoría 32. 2005.Éste ese! momento crucial para emprender formas de vida sustentables, por lo que resulta esencial adoptar una ética de la tierra que reconozca el valor intrínseco además del valor útil de los seres que pueblan nuestro medio ambiente natural. En este ensayo empiezo enfocando los obstáculos a que se enfrenta el desarrollo de una ética de la tierra, obstáculos que resultan ser el producto de conocimientos limitados y suposiciones equivocadas. En resolución de esas problemáticas prácticas apunto, pr…Read more
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103Nature, culture, and natural heritage: Toward a culture of natureEnvironmental Ethics 27 (4): 339-354. 2005.Nature and culture are usually treated as opposites. Nature, on this conception, is on the wane as a result of culture. A fresh analysis of the relation between these two terms in the light of the notion of “cultural landscapes” is needed. This account allows for nature to be understood as an important, distinctive category, even while granting the constitutive role of the culturally structured gaze. Culture and nature need not be conceived in opposition to each other, for it makes sense to spea…Read more
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University of VictoriaDepartment of Philosophy
School of Environmental StudiesAdjunct Professor In School of Environmental Studies, Associate Fellow At Centre for Global Studies -
Universidad de La LagunaOther (Part-time)
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Other Academic Areas |
History of Western Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |