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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"environmental philosophy"”.
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Negotiating Environmental Relationships: Why Language Matters to Environmental Philosophy
The medium of language is important to environmental philosophy, and more specifically, to the establishment and understanding of environmental relationships. The differences between animal and human language point to our unique semantic range, which results from our neuro-linguistic process of …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
… the more-than-human world. Although he explored environmental issues with ecological insight and philosophical contemplation that placed him well beyond his literary and scientific contemporaries, Steinbeck’s contributions to modern ecological inquiry and environmental thought have received only …
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The Dust Dwellers: The Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London
In this paper, I explore the environmental philosophy of three Californian modernists, who I have collectively named the Dust Dwellers: John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London. I argue that these writers participated in a broader modernist response to the ascendancy of the Enlightenment …
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Othas and environment in animal ethics and environmental philosophy : ontology and ethical motivation beyond the dichotomies of anthropocentrism.
… some central problems with contemporary environmental and animal ethics, arguing that most arise from a reliance on heavily anthropocentric concepts such as reason, sentience, and rights. Second, it investigates the possibility of ontology and ethics beyond anthropocentrism, in which …
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Introducing Godzilla to Marianne Moore's Octopus of Ice at the Intersection of Global Warming, Environmental Philosophy, and Poetry
… away before our eyes. Adopting Aldo Leopold’s environmental philosophy of thinking like a mountain, the poet may describe the impact of global warming upon the mountain, glacier, flora and fauna, that form an interconnected web of life. A poem that thinks like a mountain already exists: …
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Toward an Ecofeminist Environmental Jurisprudence: Nature, Law, and Gender
… theory reflecting the insights of feminism and environmental philosophy. I argue that human beings are not ontologically separate, but embedded in webs of relationality with natural others. My primary purposes are to 1) delineate ways in which institutions of modernity (such as law and science) …
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Environmental Virtue Education: Ancient Wisdom Applied
The focus of environmental philosophy has thus far heavily depended on the extension of rights to nonhuman nature. Due to inherent difficulties with this approach to environmental problems, I propose a shift from the contemporary language of rights and duties to the concept of character …
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ECOLOGY OF A KŌAN: HAKUIN’S ZEN AS A MORAL MODEL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGAGEMENT
My thesis is that within Buddhist philosophy the concept of mindfulness is a valuable contribution to environmentalism that similarly extols the virtue of generating a kind of environmental mindfulness. Buddhist traditions have long developed the concept of mindfulness as well as compassion, the …
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Staged empathy : empathy and visual perception in virtual reality systems
… of affordances and revealed phantasms from environmental philosophy and cultural computing to these techniques, staged empathy provides a framework for the analysis of virtual reality work that is sensitive to the new potentials of the medium as well as the limitations of empathy.
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QUANTITY IN LIGHT OF QUALITY: RETHINKING THE "POPULATION PROBLEM"
… its decline and relative absence in present-day environmental philosophy. While some of the helpful ways in which commentators of the past approached the topic have been largely forgotten, such as valuing the relation between the size of a community and its ability to function harmoniously, I …
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A Companion Object: Materialising a multispecies sensibility through creative practice in an ecological crisis
… that synthesises understandings from feminist environmental philosophy (Plumwood, Haraway, Puig de la Bellacasa), post-anthropocentrism (Braidotti) and social science thinking on care (Tronto, Gilligan). From these relational ontologies I construct a conceptual and thematic framework for …
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Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley: From Local to Global Ecology
… analysis, I argue that the footprint of modern environmental philosophy can be detected in these two Romantic writers who argued for developing an eco-identity whose existence is bound with physical nature and the environment. By revisiting these dichotomies, they advocate for a liminal space …
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Ecologies of Reading in Dante and Rilke
… Dante and Rilke’s poetry through the lens of environmental philosophy. Focusing on the non-human subjects that populate both poets’ works, it argues that for Dante and Rilke human existence is inherently relational. It is only by acknowledging our position as interdependent agents in the …
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The Moral Significance of Environmental Aesthetics and Its Importance In Environmental Decision Making and Policy Setting
<p>Environmental aesthetics is a relatively new field of philosophy, and interest in the issues that it raises is growing rapidly. Most of the early work in environmental aesthetics has been focused on developing the most appropriate model for aesthetic appreciation of nature, but in this …
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Chemical Intimacies and Toxic Publics
… Complete with a corps of risk managers and environmental consultants, neoliberal capitalism has fashioned pollution into a universal standard that functions as an ambient form of socialization. Pollution, I contend, serves as a social apparatus, an atmospheric example of what Jacques Rancire …
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Land Health as Culture and Law: A Challenge to the Contemporary Discourse on Private Property
… studies of private land-use disputes involving environmental harm. The conclusions of this study offer a wide-ranging critique of property rhetoric as it appears in journalist reporting, popular rhetoric, and in the policy stances of conservation organizations. The chief complaint is that too …
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How Can Solastalgia Restore a Lost Sense of Belonging to the Image? An autotheoretical attempt to return to a documentary practice and recover a filmic voice
… is a neologism created by the Australian environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht to designate the pain or sadness provoked by the loss of solace and the subsequent yearning for a lost sense of belonging to a place that could be called ‘home'. In clinical psychology, Albrecht first used …
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The idea of nature in the Daoist classic of Liezi
… Liezi’s political thought and its implication to environmental policy. The Liezi’s political thought synthesizes various theories of Confucianism, Legalism, and the Huang-Lao school, with the Daoist ideal of non-action as its most basic principle and ultimate goal. It is noteworthy, however, that …
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