philosophy

This paper argues that the analogy with warfare should not be used for justificatory or rhetorical purposes, but that it may nevertheless have a legitimate heuristic role to play in environmental philosophy.

This paper outlines a constructivist approach to environmental ethics which attempts to reconcile realism in the ontological sense.

This essay addresses the implications of German Idealism and Romanticism, and in particular the philosophy of Schelling as it is informed by Kant and Goethe, for contemporary environmental philosophy.

In this paper, it is argued that Nietzsche’s account of nature provides us with a challenging diagnosis of the modern crisis in our relationship with nature.

In this paper, questions on envrionmental problems are explored by examining the ontology of environmental problems.

Alan Carter seeks to advance our understanding of some of the possibilities within Humean moral theory, while simultaneously providing new foundations for both animal welfare and a wider environmental ethic.

Peter Alward examines a naive argument against moral vegetarianism.

H.A.E. Zwart discusses Ibsen’s The Wild Duck as the origin of a new animal science.

Michael Lockwood synthesizes insights from philosophy, psychology, and economics towards an understanding of how humans value nature.

In her essay, Dana Phillips presents a analysis of Thoreau’s aesthetics and “the domain of the superlative.”