Interspecies Care in a Hybrid Institution
Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, Piers Locke reconceives traditionally humanist ethnography as interspecies ethnography.
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ethics
Making Worlds with Crows: Philosophy in the Field
Thom van Dooren draws on his current research on people’s shifting relationships with crows around the world to outline some of the core questions and approaches of “field philosophy.”
Elliot, Robert, "Facts About Natural Values"
Robert Elliot discusses anthropocentric ethics, concluding with a subjectivist account of intrinsic value.
Preston, Christopher J., "Synthetic Biology: Drawing a Line in Darwin's Sand"
Chistopher J. Preston explains why environmental ethicists with a commitment to the normative significance of the historical evolutionary process may see synthetic biology as a moral “line in the sand.”
Attfield, Robin, "Saving Nature, Feeding People and Ethics"
Robin Attfield refutes the neo-Malthusian paradigm put forward by Holmes Rolston, arguing that authentic development will seldom conflict with nature conservation.
Crisp, Roger, "Animal Liberation is not an Environmental Ethic: A Response to Dale Jamieson"
Roger Crisp responds to Dale Jamieson’s views on animal liberation as environmental ethic.
Baxter, Brian, "Environmental Ethics - Values or Obligations? A Reply to O'Neill"
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.
Lo, Y. S., "A Humean Argument for the Land Ethic?"
This article examines allegedly Humean solutions by J. Baird Callicott to the is/ought dichotomy and the land ethic’s summary moral precept, concluding that neither the solution nor the argument is Humean or cogent.
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.
Preston, Christopher J., "Intrinsic Value and Care: Making Connections through Ecological Narratives"
Christopher J. Preston explores differing stances taken by supporters of the intrinsic value and the care approaches to environmental ethics, and looks for common ground.