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The Work of Holmes Rolston, Iii: Abbreviated Bibliography THE WORK OF HOLMES ROLSTON, III: ABBREVIATED BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life. (Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1995). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1997). Edited anthology from Conference on Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life, held at Colorado State University, September 1991. Contributors: Thomas R. Cech, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Niles Eldredge, Michael Ruse, Francisco J. Ayala, Langdon Gilkey, Charles Birch. Philosophy Gone Wild (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986). 269 pages. A collection of essays in envi- ronmental ethics. Paperbound edition 1989. Science and Religion—A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987; McGraw-Hill, 1989; Harcourt Brace, 1997). 358 pages. (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, hardbound, 1987). (Ft. Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College, 1997). Reissued with new introduction: Philadelphia Templeton Foundation Press 2006. Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988). 400 pages. Paperbound edition, 1989. Conserving Natural Value (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994). Published in electronic format by Columbia University Press Online Books, 1997. Genes, Genesis and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997–1998. ARTICLES BY TOPIC AREA Value theory “Is There an Ecological Ethic?” Ethics: An International Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 85(1975):93–109. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. “Values in Nature,” Environmental Ethics 3(1981):113–128. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. “Are Values in Nature Subjective or Objective?” Environmental Ethics 4(1982):125–151. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. “Values Gone Wild,” Inquiry 26(1983):181–207. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. “Human Standing in Nature, The: Fitness in the Moral Overseer.” In Wayne Sumner, Donald Callen, and Thomas Attig, eds., Values and Moral Standing (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Studies in Applied Philosophy, 1986), vol. 8, pp. 90–101. “Disvalues in Nature,” The Monist 75(1992):250–278. “Biophilia, Selfish Genes, Shared Values.” In Stephen R. Kellert and Edward O. Wilson, eds., The Biophilia Hypothesis: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry (Washington: Island Press, 1993), pages 381–414. “Value in Nature and the Nature of Value.” In Robin Attfield and Andrew Belsey, eds., Philosophy and the Natural Environment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pages 13–30. Royal Institute of Philosophy, Annual Supplement Volume. “Can and Ought We to Follow Nature?” Environmental Ethics 1(1979):7–30. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. “Nature, the Genesis of Value, and Human Understanding,” Environmental Values 6(1997):361–364. 269 270 ABBREVIATED BIBLIOGRAPHY “Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species.” In Louis P. Pojman, ed., Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, 3rd ed. (Belmont CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2001), pages 76–86. Reason and emotion in ethics “Hewn and Cleft from this Rock,” Main Currents in Modern Thought 27(1971):79–83. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild as “Meditation at Precambian Contact.” “Pasqueflower, The,” Natural History (Magazine of the American Museum of Natural History) 88 (no. 4, April 1979): 6–16. Reprinted in Philosophy Gone Wild. “Nature and Human Emotions.” In Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Thomas W. Attig, eds., Understanding Human Emotions (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Studies in Applied Philosophy, 1979), volume 1, pages 89–96. Reprinted in Philosophy Gone Wild. “Lake Solitude: The Individual in Wildness,” Main Currents in Modern Thought 31(1975):121–126. Reprinted in Philosophy Gone Wild. Theology and the environment “Community: Ecological and Ecumenical.” In The Iliff Review 30(1973):3–14 (Iliff Theological Seminary, Denver). “Wildlife and Wildlands: A Christian Perspective.” In Dieter T. Hessel, ed., After Nature’s Revolt: Eco- justice and Theology. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), pages 122–143. First published in Church and Society 80 (no. 4, March/April 1990):16–40. “Creation and Recreation: Environmental Benefits and Human Leisure.” In B. L. Driver, Perry J. Brown, and George L. Peterson, eds., Benefits of Leisure (State College, PA: Venture Publishing, Inc., 1991), pages 393–403. “Does Nature Need To Be Redeemed?” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 29(1994):205–229. Also in Horizons in Biblical Theology 14 (no. 2, 1993):143–172. “Environmental Ethics: Some Challenges for Christians.” In Harlan Beckley, ed., The Annual: Society of Christian Ethics (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1993), pages 163–186. “Creation: God and Endangered Species.” In Ke Chung Kim and Robert D. Weaver, eds., Biodiversity and Landscape (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pages 47–60. “Bible and Ecology, The,” Interpretation: Journal of Bible and Theology 50(1996):16–26. “Ecological Spirituality,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 18(1997):59–64. “Evolutionary History and Divine Presence,” Theology Today (Princeton) 55(1998):415–434. “Kenosis and Nature.” In John Polkinghorne, John, ed., The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis (London: SPCK, 2001 and Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001), pages 43–65. “Religion and Values” In J. Wentzel Vrede Van Huyssteen, Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, volume 2 (New York: Macmillan Reference), pages 722–724. “Naturalizing and Systematizing Evil.” In Willem B. Drees, ed., Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value (London: Routledge, 2003), pages 67–86. “Caring for Nature: From Fact to Value, from Respect to Reverence,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39 (no. 2, 2004):277–302. Environmental aesthetics “Beauty and the Beast: Aesthetic Appreciation of Wildlife.” In D. J. Decker and G. Goff, Valuing Wildlife Resources: Economic and Social Perspectives (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987), pages 187–207. “Does Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscapes Need to be Science-Based?” British Journal of Aesthetics 35(1995):374–386. “Landscape from Eighteenth Century to the Present.” Volume 3. In Michael Kelly, ed., Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, volume 3 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) pages 93–99 . “Aesthetic Experience in Forests,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56(1998):157–166. “Aesthetics in the Swamps,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (University of Chicago; Johns Hopkins University) 43(2000):584–597. ABBREVIATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 271 “From Beauty to Duty: Aesthetics of Nature and Environmental Ethics.” In Arnold Berleant, ed., Environment and the Arts: Perspectives on Environmental Aesthetics (Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2002), pages 127–141. Natural resource policy “Beyond Recreational Value: The Greater Outdoors.” In Laura B. Szwak, ed., Americans Outdoors: A Literature Review (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1987). Paper commissioned by President’s Commission on Americans Outdoors. “Values Deep in the Woods,” American Forests 94, nos. 5 & 6 (May/June 1988): 66–69. “Human Values and Natural Systems,” Society and Natural Resources 1(1988):271–283. “Biology Without Conservation: An Environmental Misfit and Contradiction in Terms.” In David Western and Mary C. Pearl, eds., Conservation for the Twenty-first Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pages 232–240. “Forest Ethic and Multivalue Forest Management, A,” co-authored with James Coufal, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, Journal of Forestry 89(no. 4, 1991):35–40. “Using Water Naturally,” Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado, Western Water Policy Project, Discussion Series Paper No. 9, 1991. “Fishes in the Desert—Paradox and Responsibility.” In W. L. Minckley and James E. Deacon, eds., Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish/Management in the American West (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1991), pages 93–108. “Wilderness Idea Reaffirmed, The,” Environmental Professional 13(1991):370–377. Reprinted in Lori Gruen and Dale Jamieson, eds., Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 265–278. “Nature, Spirit, and Land Management.” In Beverly L. Driver, Daniel Dustin, Tony Baltic, Gary Eisner, and George Peterson, eds., Nature and the Human Spirit: Toward an Expanded Land Management Ethic (State College, PA: Venture Publishing Co., 1996). Anthology published by a U.S. Forest Service task force, pages 17–24. “What Is Responsible Management of Private Rangeland?” In Larry D. White, ed., Private Property Rights and Responsibilities of Rangeland Owners and Managers (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University, 1995), pages 39–49. “Restoration.” In Willian Throop, ed., Environmental Restoration (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, Promethus Press, 2000), pages 127–132. National parks “Biology and Philosophy in Yellowstone,” Biology and Philosophy 5(1990):241–258. “Yellowstone: We Must Allow It To Change,” High Country News 23 (no. 10, June 3, 1991):12–13. “Life and the Nature of Life—in Parks.” In David Harmon and Allen D. Putney, eds., The Full Value of Parks: From the Economic to the Intangible (Lanham. MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pages 103–113. Endangered species, biodiversity, and wildlife “Duties to Endangered Species,” BioScience 35(1985):718–726. Reprinted in Philosophy Gone Wild. “Duties to Ecosystems.” In J. Baird Callicott, ed. Companion to a Sand
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