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The concept of antinatalism is now becoming popular on the Internet. Many online newspaper articles deal with this topic, and numerous academic papers on antinatalism have been published over the past ten years in the fields of philosophy... more
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      Japanese StudiesMetaphysicsEnvironmental PhilosophyBuddhist Philosophy
In the past few decades, it has become clear that the Western world’s relation to nature has led to environmental degradation so wide-ranging that it threatens the existence of human civilizations as we have come to know them. The onset... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyContinental PhilosophyEnvironmental EthicsEco-Phenomenology
Une forêt ? Un paysage charmant. Un corbeau ? Un sinistre présage. Une rose ? L’être aimé. Le monde vivant est à la fois omniprésent dans notre culture et décidément absent. Car percevoir le vivant comme un décor, un symbole ou un... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyArt HistoryHistory of Natural HistoryEnvironmental History
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      Philosophy of TechnologyEnvironmental PhilosophyPhilosophical AnthropologyPhilosophy of Ecology
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      Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental EthicsEnvironmental Political TheoryEnvironmental Politics
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      EmotionEnvironmental PhilosophyExpertiseEnvironmental Ethics
Engaging with beauty can orient mind, heart and action in this era of ecological destruction. First, I present a vision of beauty that acknowledges some of its common critiques while salvaging it from claims that it is merely subjective,... more
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      AestheticsEnvironmental PhilosophyEducationEnvironmental Education
Interview on Buddhist thought, Levinas, and Environmental Humanities with 3AM Magazine.
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      BuddhismEnvironmental PhilosophyComparative PhilosophyÉmmanuel Lévinas
Should we care about how nature is thought of in other cultures? This short essay, originally published as a blog entry on Penn State University's Rock Ethics Institute website, gives several reasons why we should.
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      Environmental PhilosophyComparative PhilosophyJapanese PhilosophyEnvironmental Ethics
The first female architecture student to study under Walter Gropius at the Harvard School of Design in the Post World War II era, Daphne Bugbee Jones was an accomplished architect who brought the principles of the Bauhaus and Modernist... more
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      Environmental ScienceEnvironmental PhilosophyArchitectureEnvironmental Studies
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      Environmental PhilosophyHermeneuticsEnvironmental EthicsEnvironmental Hermeneutics
It's hardly news that settler culture normalizes ecocide. Those of us raised as settlers who are nevertheless ecoconscious routinely blame ourselves for our failure to live up to our own best expectations when it comes to challenging the... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental ethics (Philosophy) (Philosophy)
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      Environmental PhilosophyAnimal StudiesAnimal EthicsEnvironmental Ethics
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      Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental HistoryGerman IdealismEnvironmental Ethics
TOC to the Revised First Edition (2020) of this reader, which now includes chapters on the ethics of artificial intelligence and the ethics of human enhancement. The reader now covers a more fulsome range of topics that undergraduate and... more
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      Business EthicsInternational RelationsEnvironmental PhilosophyDevelopment Studies
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      PhilosophyEnvironmental PhilosophyApplied EthicsJustice
Set topic:
Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends;
Nature and man can never be fast friends.
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      Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental SustainabilityMatthew Arnold
The distinction between natural and urban spaces permeates much of Western dominant political and environmental philosophy. This distinction in itself need not be problematic when used as an observational or descriptive category. However,... more
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      Political PhilosophyEnvironmental PhilosophyRace and RacismUrbanism
The author examines the problem of motivation about future generations. He argues that though many philosophers think that direct motivations are problematic for future generations only, they are not unproblematic for the current... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental EthicsLoveAnthropocentrism
This is an earlier paper (1992), published in the journal of Ancient Greek philosophy, Apeiron. In de Anima Aristotle considers several candidate definitions aiming to answer the question, "What is a living thing?" And "What distinguishes... more
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      PhilosophyPhilosophy of MindEnvironmental PhilosophyAristotle
The Belgian radical environmental group Aardewerk invited me to give a presentation on my research, so I quickly invented this title (it's a bit too Star Warsy, perhaps) and combined material from two of my papers on hunting. Not sure how... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyCritical Animal StudiesTheodicyEnvironmental Ethics
This book provides new interpretations of Heidegger’s philosophical method in light of 20th-century postmodernism and 21st-century speculative realism. In doing so, it raises important questions about philosophical method in the age of... more
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      PhilosophyEnvironmental PhilosophyPhilosophy Of ReligionHermeneutics
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      Mythology And FolkloreEnvironmental PhilosophyPerceptionOrality-Literacy Studies
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      Environmental PhilosophyValue of Nature
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      Social TheoryPolitical PhilosophyEnvironmental PhilosophyPolitical Theory
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      Environmental PhilosophyChinese PhilosophyEnvironmental EducationDaoism
BEYOND STEWARDSHIP: TOWARD AN AGAPEIC ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC Christopher J. Vena, B.A., M.A. Marquette University, 2009 One of the unfortunate implications of industrialization and the rapid expansion of global commerce is the magnification... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyTheologyEnvironmental EthicsEcology
In the process of formally identifying a geological interval, it is crucial for stratigraphers to find the point at which strata reveal a significant, dramatic shift in the types of fossils and other geological markers being found. In the... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesSocial TheoryCultural Geography
This work is Chapter 11 in the John M. Meyer and Jens M. Kersten edited volume "The Greening of Everyday Life" (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp.183-97. It builds in part upon my earlier work "Plumwood, Property, Selfhood and... more
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      Political PhilosophyEnvironmental PhilosophyPolitical TheoryProperty Rights
The following is a draft excerpt from my forthcoming book, Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse. It concerns the the commodification of nonhuman animals, particularly endangered species. Climate... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyApplied EthicsClimate ChangeGeopolitics
A l'origine de la crise actuelle de la biodiversité, il n'y a pas d'explosion volcanique ou de pluie de météorites, mais une accumulation d'actes et de choix humains : surconsommation, intensification de l'agriculture, gaspillage... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental EthicsBiodiversityBiodiversity Conservation
"By inviting educators from diverse backgrounds to participate in creative conversations I had hoped to reflect on experiences that had helped construct our theories of environmental education, and inform practice. I sought consistency... more
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      Human EcologyEpistemologyEnvironmental PhilosophyIndigenous Studies
This essay was published in 2019 as a contribution to an anthology at the intersection of food insecurity and the climate crisis: Food, Environment, and Climate Change. Ed Gilson and Kenehan, Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Books),... more
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      Environmental EconomicsEthicsEnvironmental PhilosophyFeminist Theory
I. INTRODUCTION: COMMODIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS S HOULD there be markets for environmental goods? For instance, should we trade carbon and biodiversity credits? The debate over markets and nature is often polarized. On the one... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyEcological EconomicsEnvironmental EthicsEnvironmental Political Theory
The tethering of Indigenous peoples to animality has long been a central mechanism of settler colonialism. Focusing on North America from the seventeenth century to the present, this essay argues that Indigenous animalization stems from... more
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      American HistoryNative American StudiesAmerican StudiesPhilosophy
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“Hope in the Age of the Anthropocene” in Analecta Hermeneutica, vol. 6 (2015).

Reprinted as “Hope in the Age of the Anthropocene” in Ecology, Ethics, and Hope, ed. Andrew Brei (Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).
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      Environmental PhilosophyContinental PhilosophyEnvironmental EthicsEnvironmental Hermeneutics
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      Environmental PhilosophyPerceptionEcological AnthropologyPhenomenology
In present day tourism, ecotourism has gained significant popularity and is an avenue to foster synergy between economic, cultural, and ecological growth. This paper attempts to demonstrate how the ecotourism industry uses the power of... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyEcotourismImaginationSundarbans
I will consider some of the ethical and political implications of Husserl’s observation that the earth is not perceivable in its wholeness by any person or by any human perspective. I turn to the first photographs of the earth from space... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyPhenomenologyEdmund HusserlMartin Heidegger
In order to confront patriarchal values in music education, music educators must know the philosophies of historic women music educators. Music educators' general underestimation of the value of historic women is a critical concern. In... more
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      Music EducationEnvironmental PhilosophyEcofeminismProgressive Education
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      Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental EthicsEnvironmental Virtue Ethics
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      Environmental PhilosophyBaruch Spinoza
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      Evolutionary BiologyGeneticsPaleontologyEnvironmental Philosophy
Eco-sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology Ariel Salleh (ed.) Pluto Press, London, New York; and Spinifex Press, North Melbourne, pp. 324, RRP $39.95 This book comprises a diverse set of writings at the interface of... more
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      SociologyEnvironmental PhilosophyPublishingPolitical Science
Prendendo spunto da un passo del Sistema periodico in cui Levi definisce Dio un “maestro di polimerizzazioni” che non ama le sostanze “troppo incorruttibili”, questo saggio discute il tema della responsabilità ambientale e della... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental EthicsEcologyEcocriticism
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      Environmental PhilosophyPhenomenologyContinental PhilosophyMaurice Merleau-Ponty
""Environmental thinkers often suppose that the natural world (or some parts of it, at least) exists in its own right, independent of human concerns. The arguments developed in this paper suggest that it is possible to do justice to this... more
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      Environmental PhilosophyPhenomenologyMaurice Merleau-PontyEcophenomenology
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      SociologyEnvironmental PhilosophyEnvironmental EducationEnvironmental Studies
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      Environmental PhilosophyPerceptionMnemonicsOrality-Literacy Studies