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1. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 23 > Issue: 4
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2. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 23 > Issue: 4
Clare Palmer “Taming the Wild Profusion of Existing Things”?: A Study of Foucault, Power, and Human/Animal Relationships
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I explore how some aspects of Foucoult’s work on power can be applied to human/animal power relations. First, I argue that because animals behave as “beings that react” and can respond in different ways to human actions, in principle at least, Foucoult’s work can offer insights into human/animal power relations. However, many of these relations fall into the category of “domination,” in which animals are unable to respond. Second, I examine different kinds of human power practices, in particular, ways in which humans construct animal constitutions and animal subjectivities. Finally, I use a case study of a pet cat to show how such power practices may come together in a single instance.
3. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 23 > Issue: 4
Mick Smith Environmental Anamnesis: Walter Benjamin and the Ethics of Extinction
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Environmentalists often recount tales of recent extinctions in the form of an allegory of human moral failings. But such allegories install an instrumental relation to the past’s inhabitants, using them to carry moralistic messages. Taking the passenger pigeon as a case in point, I argue for a different, ethical relation to the past’s inhabitants that conserves something of the wonder and “strangeness of the Other.” What Walter Benjamin refers to as the “redemptive moment” sparks a recognition of the Other that allows us to engage in heartfelt mourning for them, rather than falling into the repetitive self-absorption characteristic of Freudian melancholy. This redemptive moment changes forever our relations to the world around us.
discussion papers
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Jay R. Harmon Notions of Self-Interest: Reflections on the Intersection between Contingency and Applied Environmental Ethics
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If agents motivated only by self-interested reasons practice different degrees of ethical environmental behavior at least partly because they hold different notions of what is in their self-interest, then the nature of our self-interest conceptions is a central issue in environmental ethics. Unless set by biology, as seems unlikely from the evidence, the breadth of the individual self-interest conception we each develop must depend on the specific experiences we are each contingently exposed to in our lives. If nurturing a stronger environmental ethic within our society is a goal, if that ethic depends at least in part on how we individually conceive of our self-interest, and if the development of each of our self-interest conceptions responds contingently to input from others, then these reflections lead to normative considerations that reach beyond the standard ethical questions regarding how to act to others that concern, antecedently, whether to act at all.
5. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 23 > Issue: 4
Scott Friskics Dialogical Relations with Nature
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I suggest that our dialogical encounters with our fellow creatures furnish the experiential ground of ethical action with respect to them. Unfortunately, this ground is seldom realized or recognized in our society; our capacity for ethical action remains unmoored from its animating sources. Yet despite our habitual inattentiveness, nature’s creatures may still grace us with their presence in dialogue. The works of Martin Buber and Henry Bugbee provide the theoretical framework within which I attempt to work through these ideas and interpret their ethical significance in the context of personal experience.
6. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 23 > Issue: 4
Hugh McDonald Toward a Deontological Environmental Ethics
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In this paper, I outline both a nonanthropocentric and non-subjective theory of intrinsic value which incorporates pragmatism in environmental ethics in a novel way. The theory, which I call creative actualization, is a non-hierarchical, nonsubjective theory of value which includes the value of nonhuman species and the biosphere. I argue that there are conditions to such values. These limitations include evaluations of actual improvement (meliorism) and reciprocity as conditions. These conditions are necessary limitations upon actions, i.e., duties. I incorporate a deontological ethic thereby as an alternative to utilitarian and other ethical theories in environmental ethics. Duties are to species and to habitats, not to individuals. I conclude that the distinction between ethics and ecological ethics is no longer tenable, given a theory of obligation which is truly universal rather than speciesist. Ecological ethics is the ethics of the future, embracing a way of life, duty, and questions of ultimate worth.
book reviews
7. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 23 > Issue: 4
Michael Black Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature
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Jonathan Olsen Bioregionalism
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Ned Hettinger The Natural and the Artefactual: The Implications of Deep Science and Deep Technology for Environmental Philosophy
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10. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 23 > Issue: 4
REFEREES 2001
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11. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 23 > Issue: 4
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