"Two Distinctions in Environmental Goodness"
Karen Green applies Korsgaard’s distinctions—one between intrinsic and extrinsic value, and the other between having value as an end and having value as a means—to some issues in environmental philosophy.
Karen Green applies Korsgaard’s distinctions—one between intrinsic and extrinsic value, and the other between having value as an end and having value as a means—to some issues in environmental philosophy.
Avner De-Shalit discusses how the neglect of environmental philosophy in historical discourse of the environmental movement mistakenly identify “political ecology” with right-wing ideologies.
Richard Cookson examines Sagoff’s criticisms of “Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics” (Environmental Values, Winter 1994) and argues that none of them are fatal.
Harry Barton examines a 1991 proposal to embark upon the largest mining project in Europe, on the remote island of Harris and Lewis in Scotland. He argues that different groups perceive their environments differently, and pleads for a wider recognition of this diversity, as well as expansions of concepts of development and sustainability.
Markus J. Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson make an argument for the synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology towards improving environmental policy.
Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.
William Grey discusses the moral status of future persons, and the relationship between abortion and environmental values.
In this essay (updated in 2019), Bron Taylor offers background about the events that gave rise to the Earth First! movement and reviews some of the watershed moments in its history, including its print publications.
Ronald Hepburn explores and critically assesses the concept of the metaphysical imagination and its possible roles as part of aesthetic encounters.
Brian Baxter makes an argument in favour of person-centricism over ecocentricism.