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"The Boulder and the Sphere: Subjectivity and Implicit Values in Biology"
Peter Alpert discusses how implicit values in biology hold much promise for improving our relations with nature and each other.
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Howarth, J. M., "The Crisis of Ecology: A Phenomenological Perspective"
J. M. Howarth outlines how phenomenological enquiry can reveal and criticise modernist assumptions, while traditional phenomenological notions might form a more eco-friendly framework for the value bases of interactions within nature.
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"In and Out of Time"
Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.
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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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"Ruralism or Environmentalism?"
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.
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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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Elliot, Robert, "Facts About Natural Values"
Robert Elliot discusses anthropocentric ethics, concluding with a subjectivist account of intrinsic value.
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Sterba, James P., "Reconciliation Reaffirmed: A Reply to Steverson"
James P. Sterba offers clarifications to Brian Steverson’s objections to his original reconciliationist argument and notion of intrinsic value.
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Schmidtz, David, "When Preservationism Doesn't Preserve"
David Schmidtz argues that “the philosophies of both conservation and preservationism can fail by their own lights, since trying to put their respective principles of conservationism or preservationism into institutional practice can have results that are the opposite of what the respective philosophies tell us we ought to be trying to achieve.”