"Ecological Community, the Sense of the World, and Senseless Extinction"
Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.
Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
Callicott supposes that the environmental turn in the humanities, grounded in ecology and evolutionary biology, foreshadows an emerging NeoPresocratic revival in twenty-first century philosophy.
In this commentary piece, Tom Greaves responds to J. Baird Callicott, arguing that the historical narrative that Callicott derives from Aristotle regarding the development of philosophical thought from natural philosophy to social and moral concerns, is not the best way to conceive of the project of the Presocratics.
Full article by former RCC fellow Dominic Hinde.
This article challenges the common view on anthropocentrism.
This article sheds light on the diversity of meanings and connotations that tend to be lost or hidden in translations between different conceptualizations of nature in East and South-East Asia.