"The Naive Argument against Moral Vegetarianism"
Peter Alward examines a naive argument against moral vegetarianism.
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.
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.
This article assesses the impact of Jane Carruthers’ seminal book The Kruger National Park.
In this article, Jane Carruthers outline the merits of Mandy Martin’s artwork and the nature of her projects.
This article assesses the merits of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Protected Areas Matrix, and asks whether we are destroying endogenous processes that generate biocultural diversity in our quest to conserve it.
This essay discusses Biodiversity, the 1988 landmark collection of papers edited by American biologist E. O. Wilson, which established biodiversity as a popular scientific concept.
Bodily adaptations have been integrated into human culture in a co-evolutionary process, such as the social and regulating function of the moral emotion shame. The ability to feel shame and physiological markers of it, such as blushing, are hardwired, but they are used in many different and sometimes even contradicting ways in specific cultures.
Using McGilchrist’s study The Master and His Emissary, Frank Zelko discusses possible neurobiological origins of the tension between holistic and reductive thought, specifically by looking at the structure of the two hemispheres of our brains.