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1. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 20 > Issue: 1
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2. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 20 > Issue: 1
Arran E. Gare MacIntyre, Narratives, and Environmental Ethics
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While environmental philosophers have been striving to extend ethics to deal with future generations and nonhuman life forms, very little work has been undertaken to address what is perhaps a more profound deficiency in received ethical doctrines, that they have very little impact on how people live. I explore Alasdair MacIntyre’s work on narratives and traditions and defend a radicalization of his arguments as a direction for making environmental ethics efficacious.
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M. M. Van de Pitte “The Female is Somewhat Duller”: The Construction of the Sexes in Ornithological Literature
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I review ornithological literature in order to demonstrate that conventions of description and illustration, as well as some aspects of biological theory relating to birds, put a strong focus on male birds. I criticize the sexist aspects of ornithology from the standpoint of recent feminist philosophy of science, establishing connections between the ways in which we view animals and the ways in which we viewourselves and arguing that it is costly to humans, specifically women, to suggest that females of the nonhuman species are biologically inadequate in relation to their male counterparts. Finally, I note that failure to notice and excise residual sexism in animal science also encourages people to be inattentive to and less considerate of a large and significant part of nature. I conclude with some suggestionsfor reform.
discussion papers
4. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 20 > Issue: 1
Cary Coglianese Implications of Liberal Neutrality for Environmental Policy
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The principle of liberal neutrality requires governments to avoid acting to promote particular conceptions of the good life. Yet by determining who uses natural resources and how, environmental policy makers can affect the availability of resources needed by individuals to carry on meaningful lives and in doing so can effectively privilege some versions of the good life at the expense of others. A commitment to liberal neutrality by implication promotes environmental policy that accommodates competing activities in order to provide a wide range of resources that can support diversity in individual lives. It also encourages caution with regard to legislation based on deep ecology, the intrinsic value of species, and the fear of impending environmental catastrophe.
5. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 20 > Issue: 1
David W. Kidner Culture and the Unconscious in Environmental Ethics
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I argue that much current environmental theory is unwittingly grounded in assumptions about personhood that entangle it within existing ideology. Culture theory, I suggest, offers a way out of this entanglement through its perception of our immersion within a symbolic realm which precedes consciousness. Environmental theory, by embodying, articulating and legitimating cultural forms, can avoid being assimilated by those individualistic and scientistic assumptions which undermine its potential.
6. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 20 > Issue: 1
Annie L. Booth Learning from Others: Ecophilosophy and Traditional Native American Women’s Lives
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I examine the roles of traditional Native American women with regard to their impact on maintaining appropriate spiritual, cultural, and physical relationships with the natural world and discuss lessons that ecophilosphers might find useful in reexamining their own spiritual, cultural, and physical relationships.
book reviews
7. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 20 > Issue: 1
Robert Kirkman The New Ecological Order
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Wayne Ouderkirk What is Nature?: Culture, Politics, and the Non-Human
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Ned Hettinger Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community
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