"Do Meaningful Relationships with Nature Contribute to a Worthwhile Life?"
This paper argues that a worthwhile life is one in which the meaningful relationships existing in nature are recognised and respected.
This paper argues that a worthwhile life is one in which the meaningful relationships existing in nature are recognised and respected.
This paper considers—and rejects—some of the more usual understandings of animal suffering.
In this posthumously published paper Val Plumwood reflects on two personal encounters with death, being seized as prey by a crocodile and burying her son in a country cemetery with a flourishing botanic community.
David Sumner and Peter Gilmour discuss the arguments relating to radiation mortality, arguing them to be rooted in a utilitarian system of moral philosophy.
This article analyses Thoreau’s thoughts on health based on his writings, emphasising some features that fit well with contemporary debates in the philosophy of medicine.
Using the case study of the Bhopal gas disaster, S. Ravi Rajan articulates a framework of questions for the next generation of research and advocacy.
In his article Robert Kirkman recommends that environmental philosophers consider the possibility of a Darwinian humanism, through which moral agents are understood as both free and causally intertwined with the natural world.