"Sustainable Development and Social Justice: Expanding the Rawlsian Framework of Global Justice"
Oluf Langhelle discusses expansion of the Rawlsian framework of global justice in relation to sustainable development.
anthropology
"Anthropocentrism: A Misunderstood Problem"
Tim Hayward discusses the reason for his claim that anthropocentrism is a misunderstood problem.
"Convergence, Noninstrumental Value and the Semantics of 'Love': Reply to Norton"
This article comments on Norton’s conception on convergence, noninstrumental value and the semantics of “love.”
"Convergence, Noninstrumental Value and the Semantics of 'Love': Comment on McShane"
This article comments on Katie McShanes theories on convergence and noninstrumental value.
"The Moral Status of Beings who are not Persons: A Casuistic Argument"
Jon Wetlesen addresses the question: Who or what can have a moral status in the sense that we have direct moral duties to them?
"Naturalism and Environmentalism: A Reply to Hinchman"
This paper seeks to show that sociobiology does not pose the kinds of threat to humanism and environmentalism outlined by Hinchman.
Biocultural Diversity and the Problem of the Superabundant Individual
This paper deals with the subset of work on biocultural diversity that quantifies cultural and biological elements in order to map and compare them across regions.
Neurohistory: Being in Time
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.
The Enjoyment of Complexity: A New Political Anthropology for the Anthropocene?
This article argues that a paradigm change in political anthropology might be reasonable and realistic as a way of establishing dams against human self-destruction in the Anthropocene.
Biodiversity in Satoyama Conservation: Aesthetics, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge
With reference to the Satoyama Initiative of the Japanese government, this article looks at how biocultural diversity projects can move beyond reproducing the old dichotomy between “modern” scientific and “traditional” local knowledge.