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12Climate Change and the Environmental HumanitiesIn Gianfranco Pellegrino & Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer. 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 (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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17Rapid 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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15Encountering 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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21Re-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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22Pilgrimage 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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22Relacionando 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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21Global 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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39Indigenous knowledge, emancipation and AlienationKnowledge, Technology & Policy 8 (1): 63-73. 1995.
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87Sacred ecology: Traditional knowledge and resource managementEnvironmental Ethics 22 (4): 419-421. 2000.
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23Natural Beauty: A Theory of Aesthetics Beyond the Arts: Book Reviews (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (4): 465-467. 2008.
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22The Real and the Hyperreal: Dance and SimulacraThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 34 (2): 15. 2000.
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67Journal Name: Apeiron Issue: Ahead of print
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32Symbolically Laden Sites in the Landscape and Climate ChangeEthics, Policy and Environment 17 (3): 355-369. 2014.Attention is drawn to the threat posed by climate change to symbolically laden places, landscapes and landmarks, and suggested that, insofar as some of those sites are treated as sacred by certain populations, their disturbance may be especially problematic. Special consideration is given to the significance glacial retreat for local, nearby populations, and its importance from the point of view of climate justice and ethics is discussed. The potential value of iconic sites from the perspective …Read more
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115Rock art aesthetics and cultural appropriationJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (1). 2003.
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Bashô y la estética del caminar: por la recuperación del espacio, el reconocimiento de los lugares y el seguimiento de los caminos del universoSuplementos de Contrastes: Revista Interdisciplinar de Filosofía 9 135-154. 2004.
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64Themes 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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122Aesthetic 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 |