Simon A. Hailwood discuss some key elements of an environmental philosophy distinguishing between humanity and a nature valued precisely for its otherness, and some of the difficulties involved with keeping nature’s otherness in focus.
Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.
Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
The term neurohistory points to the fundamental realities that lie at the basis of both history and neuroscience: anthropology and the philosophy of time and world history.
This article argues that Planet Earth has entered a period of “neurogeology”: the mental states and resulting actions of individual humans, groups of humans, and the collective mental states of all humans together are creating a new mode of planetary development.
John Haldane discusses the need to consider issues relating to the aesthetics of the environment, using a little known theory of Aquinas.
Alan MacQuillan discusses the advent of new forestry in the United States as representing a traumatic shift in the philosophy of national forestry praxis, a broadening of values to include aesthetics and sustainability of natural ecological process.
Roger Paden traces the influence of biological ideas on environmental ethics. Is there an alternative to the grand theories commonly employed?
James Anderson discusses concepts of “species equality” and “species superiority” to provide a framework of intrinsic values that justify such terms.
