philosophy

This paper discusses the economic and philosophical inadequacies that have characterized the Project Tiger scheme in India.

Using Darwin’s thoughts regarding conscience, Ben Dixon begins the project of grounding a revised account of human dignity in the human tendency to enshrine products of conscience within institutions.

In his article Robert Kirkman recommends that environmental philosophers consider the possibility of a Darwinian humanism, through which moral agents are understood as both free and causally intertwined with the natural world.

This issue aims to continue the discussion of how the continental tradition might advance or transform environmental thinking by considering different philosophers’ works.

In his article, Ben A. Minteer analyzes American pragmatist John Dewey’s idea of public interest in the context of environmental ethics and policy discussions.

Darren Domsky discusses J. Baird Callicott’s attack on Christopher D. Stone’s moral pluralism and argues that it fails entirely.

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.”

Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.

Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.

Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.