Carrie L. Hull discusses debates taking place among environmental scientists, providing a brief overview of the history of the formalist tendency in philosophy, and an illustration of the ways in which advocates of a strict laboratory methodology implicitly rely on this foundation.

Roger Paden presents a critical analysis of Hare’s article “Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning.”

Brian Baxter responds to Onora O’Neill’s argument that environmental ethics could and should be reformulated in terms of a search for the obligations held by moral agents towards each other, with respect to the non-human world.

Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.