philosophy

In this paper Katerina Soma introduces her concept of Natura economica.

What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?

Callicott supposes that the environmental turn in the humanities, grounded in ecology and evolutionary biology, foreshadows an emerging NeoPresocratic revival in twenty-first century philosophy.

Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.

Clive L. Spash’s editorial for Environmental Values 17.

Piers H.G. Stephens argues that several objections to preservationism may be answered by recasting the relationship between man and nature into a tripartite spectrum of ontological form between nature and artifact.

Barnabas Dickson analyses and criticises ethicist claims in environmental philosophy.

Peter Lucas responds to Laura Westra’s article “The Disvalue of ‘Contingent Valuation’ and the Problem of the ‘Expectation Gap’ ” (Environmental Values 9, no. 2 (2000): 153–71).

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.

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.