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2Climate 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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2Paul Thom, For An Audience: A Philosophy of the Performing Arts Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (5): 274-276. 1993.
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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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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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8Encountering 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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11Re-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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14Global 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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10Rock Art Aesthetics and Cultural AppropriationJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (1): 37-46. 2003.
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3Sacred Ecology: Traditional Knowledge and Resource Management (review)Environmental Ethics 22 (4): 419-421. 2000.
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2The 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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23Indigenous knowledge, emancipation and AlienationKnowledge, Technology & Policy 8 (1): 63-73. 1995.
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67Sacred ecology: Traditional knowledge and resource managementEnvironmental Ethics 22 (4): 419-421. 2000.
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37Themes in Latin American Environmental Ethics: Community, Resistance and AutonomyEnvironmental Values 13 (2). 2004.This paper seeks to answer the question how environmental ethics is approached in Latin America. I begin by discussing a suitable method for interpreting the question of whether there is a culturally based ethics, given that one may focus either on theory or on actually existing moral practices. Next, I consider some of the possible sources of Latin America's distinctiveness, namely its professional, cultural, and economic-historical particularities, followed by a discussion of the practice and …Read more
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315Basho and the aesthetics of wandering: Recuperating space, recognizing place, and following the ways of the universePhilosophy East and West 53 (3): 291-307. 2003.: An appeal is made to the foot travels of Matsuo Basho, especially his 1689 journey to northern Japan, reflected in his Narrow Road to the Interior, as examples of wandering. It is suggested that while the travels of a poetwanderer such as Basho are notably distinct from shamanic travels in some respects, they are similar in other important ways, for example in their capacity to give perspective to our everyday experience. Based on Basho's example, three aspects of wandering are discussed that …Read more
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109Aesthetic appreciation and the many stories about natureBritish Journal of Aesthetics 41 (2): 125-137. 2001.
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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 |