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"The Future—For Better or Worse"
Ernest Partridge discusses Alan Carter’s criticism of Thomas Schwartz’s “future persons paradox.”
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Chapman, Robert L., "The Goat-Stag and the Sphinx: The Place of the Virtues in Environmental Ethics"
In this paper, Robert L. Chapman discusses the importance of a place-based approach to standard virtue ethics, and argues that virtuous action, such as respect and gratitude, arises from deliberation from a position of being in and of the natural world.
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"Anthropocentrism, Artificial Intelligence, and Moral Network Theory: An Ecofeminist Perspective"
Victoria Davion critiques a conception of intelligence central in AI, and a related concept of reason central in moral philosophy, from an ecological feminist perspective.
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"Ontology, Ethics, and Sentir: Properly Situating Merleau-Ponty"
Melissa Clarke presents some groundwork for the future direction of an environmental ethic inspired by a Merleau-Pontian ontology.
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"Forest Co-management as Science and Democracy in West Bengal, India"
This essay argues that important development and natural resource management initiatives that seek to expand meaningful participation by rural communities directly affected by such ventures can be usefully examined as democratic technologies.
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"The State of Nature: The Political Philosophy of Primitivism and the Culture of Contamination"
This paper offers an ethico-political interpretation of primitivism’s critical relation to modernity in terms of the dialectic between amorality (innocence) and immorality (guilt) within what is characterized as modernity’s “culture of contamination.”
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"The Misbegotten Child of Deep Ecology"
This paper offers a critical examination of efforts to use Heidegger’s thought to illuminate deep ecology.
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"Nature as a You: Novalis' Philosophical Thought and the Modern Ecological Crisis"
This paper aims to introduce the German Romantic poet Novalis into the discussion of the modern ecological crisis.
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"The Precautionary Principle and the Concept of Precaution"
The purpose of the present paper is to provide an improved conceptual foundation for the debate around the precautionary principle in the form of an explication of the concept of precaution.
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"Ontological Politics: Mapping a Complex Environmental Problem"
In this paper, questions on envrionmental problems are explored by examining the ontology of environmental problems.