Humanidades Ambientales
Humanidades Ambientales is a website for three Spanish environmental humanities projects. Most of its content is written in both Spanish and English.
Aliases:
ethics
The Ecology of Home
About this issue
This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.
Content
The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish
Gay Hawkins puts the ethical significance of waste in everyday life into historical, social, and cultural perspective, seeking to change ecologically destructive practices without recourse to guilt, moralism, or despair.
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.
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.