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Recipes for Disaster
This film follows a filmmaker as he and his family attempt to live for a year without using oil products.
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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Pachamama Has Rights
María Valeria Berros discusses the recognition of nature’s rights in Ecuador.
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Krebs, Angelika, Ethics of Nature: A Map
Ethics of Nature is an inquiry into the value of nature. Is nature’s value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?
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Holm, Poul, et al., "Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action"
The authors offer a manifesto for the humanities to step up to the challenges of environmental change, and invite others to join the open global consortium Humanities for the Environment.
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"The Moral Worth of Creatures: Neo-Classical Metaphysics and the Value Theories of Rolston and Callicott"
After showing that Rolston’s and Callicott’s value theories are fundamentally flawed, the author demonstrates that a value theory grounded in neoclassical, or process, metaphysics avoids the problems in, and incorporates insights from, these accounts.
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"Hunting as a Moral Good"
This article argues that hunting is not a sport, but a neo-traditional cultural trophic practice consistent with ecological ethics, including a meliorist concern for animal rights or welfare.
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"Phenomenology and the Problem of Animal Minds"
The author’s aim in this paper is to show, by means of a phenomenological investigation, that the “scepticism regarding animal minds” presupposes an implausible account of how we relate to others, both humnan and nonhuman.
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"The Argument from Marginal Cases and the Slippery Slope Objection"
In this article the author poses the question whether rationality can be the reason why humans deserve moral consideration and animals do not.
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"Evaluating the 'Ethical Matrix' as a Radioactive Waste Management Deliberative Decision-Support Tool"
The paper “Evaluating the ‘Ethical Matrix’ as a Radioactive Waste Management Deliberative Decision-Support Tool” by Matthew Cotton outlines the strengths and limitations of the matrix as well as a framework for the development of alternative tools to better satisfy the needs of ethical assessment in radioactive waste management decision-making processes.
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"Darwinian Humanism and the End of Nature"
This article considers Hegel’s account of the emergence of Absolute Spirit, weighs its advantages and disadvantages as an approach to human moral experience and as a strategic move for environmentalists, and concludes with a refinement of Darwinian humanism and a clarification of its implications for environmental ethics.