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"The Songlines of Risk"
Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.
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"Science and Society in Historical Perspective: Implications for Social Theories of Risk"
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
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"Risk and Trust: The Performative Dimension"
Bronislaw Szerszynski explores some of the implications of attending to the performative aspects of language for the sociological understanding of issues of risk and trust among lay communities.
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"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?
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"Humans Valuing Nature: Synthesising Insights from Philosophy, Psychology and Economics"
Michael Lockwood synthesizes insights from philosophy, psychology, and economics towards an understanding of how humans value nature.
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"Pragmatism, Adaptive Management, and Sustainability"
Bryan G. Norton proposes the pragmatic conception of truth, anticipated by Henry David Thoreau and developed by C.S. Peirce and subsequent pragmatists, as a useful analogy for characterizing “sustainability.”
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"Environmental Thought as Cosmological Intervention"
Allan Greenbaum discusses environmental thought as cosmological intervention.
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"Silencing Philosophers: Minteer and the Foundations of Anti-Foundationalism"
J. Baird Callicott responds to Ben A. Minteer’s representation of his critique of moral pluralism.
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"Humean Nature"
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.
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"The Naive Argument against Moral Vegetarianism"
Peter Alward examines a naive argument against moral vegetarianism.