"What's In a Name? Pragmatism, Essentialism, and Environmental Ethics"
In this paper Mark A. Michael argues that pragmatists and essentialists are arguing past one another and shows why that is.
In this paper Mark A. Michael argues that pragmatists and essentialists are arguing past one another and shows why that is.
Drawing upon two case studies of biodiversity initiatives in Canada, this paper looks at the role that constructivist conceptions of education play in the integration of alternative knowledge systems in environmental decision-making.
In this paper, Helena Siipi explores some parallels and dissimilarities between aesthetic appreciation that takes as its focus art objects and that which focuses on natural objects.
In this paper, Maria Akerman focusses on the power/knowledge implications of the use of the concept, and I follow the career of the concept of natural capital in ecological economic publications between the years 1988 and 2000.
This essay explores three case studies that illustrate the exemplary use of economic analysis in environmental decision-making.
In his article, Lawrence E. Johnson discusses the moral significance of future generations.
This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.
In this paper Tee Rogers-Hayden and John R. Campbell use the case of New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Genetic Modification to explore the application of science discourses as used by environmental groups.
In his essay, Lewis P. Hinchman argues that environmental theorists, seeking the origin of Western exploitative attitudes toward nature, who have directed their attacks against “humanism” are wrong. Instead, humanism has much closer affinities to environmentalism than the latter’s advocates believe.
This paper offers a critical examination of efforts to use Heidegger’s thought to illuminate deep ecology.