"Does the Idea of Wilderness Need a Defence?"
In his essay, Paul M. Keeling tries to answer the question if the idea of wilderness needs a defence.
In his essay, Paul M. Keeling tries to answer the question if the idea of wilderness needs a defence.
Jay Appleton addresses the apparent difficulty experienced by philosophers in applying the methodology of art criticism to the aesthetics of nature and uses the idea of “narrative” to explore it.
David Russell narrates the exploration of trees and woods.
Jonah H. Peretti questions nativist trends in Conservation Biology that have made environmentalists biased against alien species.
Ronald Hepburn discusses the aesthetic appreciation of nature, arguing that not all humanising falsifies, and that we can respect nature as well as annex its forms and expressive qualities in our aesthetic appreciation.
Robyn Eckersley discusses the concepts of “human racism” and ecocentricm in relation to Tony Lynch and David Wells’ argument that any attempt to develop a non-anthropocentric morality must invariably slide back to either anthropocentrism (either weak or strong) or a highly repugnant misanthropy in cases of direct conflict between the survival needs of humans and nonhuman species.
This article comments on Norton’s conception on convergence, noninstrumental value and the semantics of “love.”
In this essay, Freya Mathews argues that the moral point of view involves a feeling for the inner reality of others and explains the consequences of this idea for other-than-human life forms and systems.
This study addresses two questions: (1) what visions of nature do lay people subscribe to? (2) to what extent do these visions reflect those of professional philosophers?
In his paper, John O’Neill discusses Holland’s perception on happiness and the good life.