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"Radiation Protection and Moral Theory"
David Sumner and Peter Gilmour discuss the arguments relating to radiation mortality, arguing them to be rooted in a utilitarian system of moral philosophy.
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"Ecosystem Health: More than a Metaphor?"
David Rapport explores what is and what is not implied by the ecosystem health metaphor.
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"Health and Disease as 'Thick' Concepts in Ecosystemic Contexts"
James Nelson considers what kind of normative work might be done by speaking of ecosystems utilizing a “medical” vocabulary—drawing, that is, on such notions as “health,” disease,” and “illness.”
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"The Emperor has no Clothes...Let us Paint our Loincloths Rainbow: A Classical and Feminist Critique of Contemporary Science Policy"
Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.
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"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.
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"Welfare Economic Dogmas: A Reply to Sagoff"
Richard Cookson examines Sagoff’s criticisms of “Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics” (Environmental Values, Winter 1994) and argues that none of them are fatal.
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"Deep Ecology as an Aesthetic Movement"
Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.
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“Landscape and the Metaphysical Imagination”
Ronald Hepburn explores and critically assesses the concept of the metaphysical imagination and its possible roles as part of aesthetic encounters.
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"Ecocentricism and Persons"
Brian Baxter makes an argument in favour of person-centricism over ecocentricism.
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"Strategies of Environmental Organisations in the Netherlands regarding the Ozone Depletion Problem"
Ruud Pleune discusse strategies of environmental organizations in the Netherlands regarding the Ozone Depletion Problem.