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Forthcoming in Environmental Values. ©2020 the White Horse Press
Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 2020 The ABCs of relational values: environmental values that include aspects of both intrinsic and instrumental valuing Deplazes-Zemp, Anna ; Chapman, Mollie Abstract: In this paper we suggest an interpretation of the concept of ‘relational value’ that could be useful in both environmental ethics and empirical analyses. We argue that relational valuing includes aspects of intrinsic and instrumental valuing. If relational values are attributed, objects are appreciated because the relationship with them contributes to the human flourishing component of well-being (instrumental aspect). At the same time, attributing relational value involves genuine esteem for the valued item (intrinsic aspect). We also introduce the notions of mediating and indirect relational environmental values, attributed in relationships involving people as well as environmental objects. We close by proposing how our analysis can be used in empirical research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/096327120x15973379803726 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-191717 Journal Article Accepted Version Originally published at: Deplazes-Zemp, Anna; Chapman, Mollie (2020). The ABCs of relational values: environmental values that include aspects of both intrinsic and instrumental valuing. Environmental Values:Epub ahead of print. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/096327120x15973379803726 Forthcoming in Environmental Values. ©2020 The White Horse Press www.whpress.co.uk THE A, B, C’S OF RELATIONAL VALUES: ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES THAT INCLUDE ASPECTS OF BOTH INTRINSIC AND INSTRUMENTAL VALUING Anna Deplazes-Zemp1*, Mollie Chapman2 1 Ethics Research Institute (ERI), University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 117, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. -
Environmental Studies and Utilitarian Ethics
Environmental Studies and Utilitarian Ethics Brian G. Wolff University of Minnesota Conservation Biology Program,100 Ecology Building 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108 Email: [email protected] Abstract: Environmental ethicists have focused much attention on the limits of utilitarianism and have generally defined “environmental ethics” in a manner that treats utilitarian environmental ethics as an oxymoron. This is unfortunate because utilitarian ethics can support strong environmental policies, and environmental ethicists have not yet produced a contemporary environmental ethic with such broad appeal. I believe educators should define environmental ethics more broadly and teach utilitarian ethics in a non-pejorative fashion so that graduates of environmental studies and policy programs understand the merits of utilitarian arguments and can comfortably participate in the policymaking arena, where utilitarian ethics continue to play a dominant role. Keywords: Environmental Education, Environmental Studies, Environmental Ethics, Utilitarianism, Utilitarian Ethics Introduction an antipathy for utilitarian ethics. To prepare graduates of environmental science courses for The current generation of college students is participation in the policy process, it is important that expected to witness a dramatic decline in environmental biologists teach the strengths, as well biodiversity, the continued depletion of marine as the weaknesses, of utilitarian ethics in a non- fisheries, water shortages, extensive eutrophication of pejorative fashion, and the limitations, as well as the freshwater and marine ecosystems, a dramatic decline strengths, of competing theories. in tropical forest cover, and significant climatic It must be appreciated that the training given warming (Jenkins 2003, Pauly et al. 2002, Jackson et most biologists seldom includes rigorous courses in al. -
Building an Environmental Ethic from the Ground Up
Building an Environmental Ethic from the Ground Up Alyson C. Flournoy* TABLE OF CONTENTS IN TRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 54 I. UNEARTHING THE ETHICS EMBEDDED IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ..... 56 A. W here Are W e Headed? ............................................................ 56 B. How Have We Come So Far Without Knowing Where We Are Headed ?................................................................................... 57 C. What Can We Gain from Unearthing the Ethics in Environmental Law ? ................................................................ 62 II. BUILDING AN ETHIC FROM THE GROUND UP ................................... 67 A. Towards a New Ethical Discourse: Stepping Stones ............... 70 B. Sustainabilityas a Stepping Stone............................................ 72 C O N CLUSION ................................................................................................. 79 Professor, University of Florida, Levin College of Law. This paper was presented during the Symposium on "Environmental Ethics and Policy: Bringing Philosophy Down to Earth," University of California, Davis School of Law, April 4, 2003. I am grateful to all the participants in the Symposium for their questions and suggestions. Christopher Stone, in particular, raised some thought-provoking questions that challenged me to clarify my thinking. University of California, Davis [Vol. 37:53 INTRODUCTION Over the last twenty years there has been a remarkable theoretical -
APA Eastern Division 2019 Annual Meeting Program
The American Philosophical Association EASTERN DIVISION ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM SHERATON NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE NEW YORK, NEW YORK JANUARY 7 – 10, 2019 Visit our table at APA Eastern OFFERING A 20% (PB) / 40% (HC) DISCOUNT WITH FREE SHIPPING TO THE CONTIGUOUS U.S. FOR ORDERS PLACED AT THE CONFERENCE. THE POETRY OF APPROACHING HEGEL’S LOGIC, GEORGES BATAILLE OBLIQUELY Georges Bataille Melville, Molière, Beckett Translated and with an Introduction by Angelica Nuzzo Stuart Kendall THE POLITICS OF PARADIGMS ZHUANGZI AND THE Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, BECOMING OF NOTHINGNESS and the Cold War “Struggle for David Chai Men’s Minds” George A. Reisch ANOTHER AVAILABLE APRIL 2019 WHITE MAN’S BURDEN Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy THE REAL METAPHYSICAL CLUB of white Racial Empire The Philosophers, Their Debates, and Tommy J. Curry Selected Writings from 1870 to 1885 Frank X. Ryan, Brian E. Butler, and BOUNDARY LINES James A. Good, editors Philosophy and Postcolonialism Introduction by John R. Shook Emanuela Fornari AVAILABLE MARCH 2019 Translated by Iain Halliday Foreword by Étienne Balibar PRAGMATISM APPLIED William James and the Challenges THE CUDGEL AND THE CARESS of Contemporary Life Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness Clifford S. Stagoll and David Farrell Krell Michael P. Levine, editors AVAILABLE MARCH 2019 AVAILABLE APRIL 2019 LOVE AND VIOLENCE BUDDHIST FEMINISMS The Vexatious Factors of Civilization AND FEMININITIES Lea Melandri Karma Lekshe Tsomo, editor Translated by Antonio Calcagno www.sunypress.edu II IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR MEETING ATTENDEES SESSION LOCATIONS Please note: this online version of the program does not include session locations. -
Psychological Aspects of Building Environmental Consciousness
Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, Vol. 4 No. 2 (June 2021) ISSN 2581-6853 | CODEN: GJNRA9 | Published by The Grassroots Institute Website: http://grassrootsjournals.org/gjnr | Main Indexing: Web of Science ISSN 2581-6853 M – 00221 | Research Article Psychological Aspects of Building Environmental Consciousness Olena Khrushch*1, Yuliya Karpiuk 2 1Department of General and Clinical Psychology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano- Frankivsk, Ukraine. Email: [email protected] 2Department of General and Clinical Psychology, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano- Frankivsk, Ukraine. Email: [email protected] *Corresponding Author ǀ ORCID: 0000-0002-5126-444X How to cite this paper: Khrushch, O. and Karpiuk, Y. (2021). Psychological Aspects of Abstract Building Environmental Consciousness. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of environmental Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 4(2): consciousness in terms of its defining features, structural 120-135. Doi: dimensions and types. More specifically, it explores the https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.040209 correlation between the anthropocentric/ecocentric perspective and sustainable household practices and interactions with the natural world. Another focus is the underlying dimensions of environmental consciousness such Received: 14 May 2021 as environmental sensitivity, sustainable consumption, Reviewed: 21 May 2021 environmental concern and commitment to act pro- Provisionally Accepted: 23 May 2021 environmentally. Ecological crisis is examined through the Revised: 27 May 2021 lens of spirituality, value orientations, attitudes, worldviews Finally Accepted: 28 May 2021 and environmental consciousness. Among the other issues Published: 05 June 2021 Copyright © 2021 by author(s) addressed are effective environmental literacy programs through school-family partnership and the driving forces of pro-environmental behaviour. -
Environmental Economics and Ecological Economics: the Contribution of Interdisciplinarity to Understanding, Influence and Effectiveness
University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive) Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities January 2011 Environmental economics and ecological economics: the contribution of interdisciplinarity to understanding, influence and effectiveness Sharon Beder University of Wollongong, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Beder, Sharon, Environmental economics and ecological economics: the contribution of interdisciplinarity to understanding, influence and effectiveness 2011, 140-150. https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/613 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Environmental Conservation 38 (2): 140–150 C Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2011 doi:10.1017/S037689291100021X Environmental economics and ecological economics: the THEMATIC SECTION Interdisciplinary Progress contribution of interdisciplinarity to understanding, in Environmental influence and effectiveness Science & Management SHARON BEDER∗ SSMAC, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia Date submitted: 16 December 2010; Date accepted: 19 March 2011 SUMMARY it cannot overcome political and social barriers to translating that understanding into the widespread This paper reviews developments in both implementation -
Critical Perspectives in Environmental Values Education
University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers Graduate School 1996 Critical perspectives in environmental values education Paul M. Rosen The University of Montana Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Rosen, Paul M., "Critical perspectives in environmental values education" (1996). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 7904. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/7904 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. i I Maureen and Mike MANSFIELD LIBRARY The University ofIVIONXANA Pennission is granted by the author to reproduce tliis material in its entirety, provided that tliis material is used for scholarly purposes and is properly cited in published works and reports. ** Please check "Yes" or "No" and provide signature * * Yes, I grant permission No, I do not grant permission______ Author's Signature Date ^ m(C- Any copying for conunercial purposes or financial gain may be undertaken only with tlie author's explicit consent. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES EDUCATION by Paul M. Rosen B. A. The Pennsylvania State University, 1992 presented in partial fulfillment of of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science The University of Montana 1996 Approved by; Chairperson Dean, Graduate School Date Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. -
Introduction
Introduction This volume consists of a collection of essays that explore environmental questions in the context of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. From richly diverse perspectives the authors represented here attempt to flesh out Merleau-Ponty’s vision in the direction of a coherent philosophi- cal ecology. In the “Preface” of his principal early work, Phenomenology of Percep- tion, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) declares phenomenology to be, as Edmund Husserl had conceived it, a “study of essences,” that is, the essential meanings of the phenomena, or what appears to us (PhP i/vii).1 But it is likewise “a philosophy that puts essences in existence and does not think that one could understand man and the world otherwise than begin- ning from their ‘facticity’” (ibid.). Phenomenology does aspire to be, in Husserl’s words, “a strict science,” but it also attempts “a direct description of our experience such as it is, and without regard to its psychological gen- esis and to the causal explications of it that the scientist, the historian, or the sociologist could provide” (ibid.). The task of phenomenology is “to describe, and not to explain or analyze” (PhP ii/viii); it is a method for describing all meaningful phenomena of the world of human life—the “life-world”—as they appear, in order to arrive at their essences. Phenomenology is “a philosophy of consciousness” (S 225/178), but neither consciousness nor phenomena are to be understood in a radically subjective, idealist sense. As Husserl shows, consciousness is “intentional,” and that intentionality means “the unique peculiarity of experiences ‘to be the consciousness of something.’”2 Therefore, to perceive is to perceive 1 © 2007 State University of New York Press, Albany 2INTRODUCTION something, to will is to will something, to love or hate is to love or hate something or someone, and so on. -
Object Oriented Ontology, Art and Art-Writing
After The Passions: Object Oriented Ontology, Art and Art-writing PRUE GIBSON DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2014 Originality Statement I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no materials previously published or written by another person, or substantial proportions of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at UNSW or any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis. Any contribution made to the research by others, with whom I have worked at UNSW or elsewhere, is explicitly acknowledged in the thesis. I also declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my own work, except to the extent that assistance from others in the project’s design and conception or in style, presentation and linguistic expression is acknowledged. Signed: Dated: i Acknowledgements My supervisor Professor Stephen Muecke welcomed me into academic life and has supported me ever since. He introduced me to Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology and slowed my usual cracking pace to a more considered and cautious speed. Each time I felt I had discovered something new about writing, I realised Stephen had led me there. I have often tried to emulate his mentoring method for my own students: without judgement, enthusiastic and twinkle-eyed. Through the second half of the thesis process, my co-supervisor Professor Edward Scheer jumped in and demanded evidence, structured argument and accountability. This was the perfect timing for a rigorous edit. -
Derrida on Non-Human Others Thomas Helmut Bretz Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2016 “But Who, We?”: Derrida on Non-Human Others Thomas Helmut Bretz Loyola University Chicago Recommended Citation Bretz, Thomas Helmut, "“But Who, We?”: Derrida on Non-Human Others" (2016). Dissertations. 2121. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2121 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2016 Thomas Helmut Bretz LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO “BUT WHO, WE?”: DERRIDA ON NON-HUMAN OTHERS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN PHILOSOPHY BY THOMAS HELMUT BRETZ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AUGUST 2016 Copyright by Thomas Helmut Bretz, 2016 All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................... iv CHAPTER 1: DERRIDA AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY ............................ 1 Two Terminological Clarifications ................................................................................. 6 The Secondary Literature ............................................................................................... -
Teaching Philosophy
APA NEWSLETTER ON Teaching Philosophy Tziporah Kasachkoff & Eugene Kelly, Co-Editors Fall 2003 Volume 03, Number 1 frequently morally-conflicted personages, offers moral dilemmas ETTER FROM THE DITORS that provoke the student to formulate criteria that are morally L E pertinent to them, and eventually to appreciate the value of moral theories that attempt to justify the criteria. The article concludes with some remarks on practical questions regarding Tziporah Kasachkoff the use of films in ethics courses. The Graduate Center, CUNY, NY We encourage our readers to suggest themselves as reviewers of books and other material that they think may be Eugene Kelly especially good for classroom use. Please remember again that New York Institute of Technology, NY our publication is devoted to pedagogy and not to theoretical discussions of philosophical issues, and this purpose should also Welcome to the Fall 2003 edition of the APA Newsletter on be borne in mind when reviewing material for our publication. Teaching Philosophy. We are pleased to present three papers of As always, we encourage our readers to write for our interest to teachers of philosophy, and several reviews of books publication. We welcome papers that respond, comment on or that can be used in the philosophy classroom. take issue with any of the material that appears within our pages. The first paper, “A Graduate Seminar on Teaching The following guidelines for submissions should be followed: Philosophy,” by Martin Benjamin, presents the history, objectives, content, syllabus, and required readings of a seminar he initiated • The author’s name, the title of the paper and full mailing at Michigan State University for graduate students in philosophy address should appear on a separate sheet of paper. -
Multicentrism: a Defence with Amendments to Anthony Weston's Axiological Matrix
Multicentrism: A Defence With Amendments to Anthony Weston's Axiological Matrix Adrian Bragstad Master thesis of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas Faculty of Humanities Supervisor: prof. Alejandra Mancilla UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Spring 2019 I Multicentrism: A Defence With Amendments to Anthony Weston's Axiological Matrix II © Adrian Bragstad 2019 Title: Multicentrism: A Defence With Amendments to Anthony Weston's Axiological Matrix Author: Adrian Bragstad https://www.duo.uio.no/ Print: Oslo Grafiske Senter As III IV Nature is a vast scene of birth and death, springtime and harvest, permanence and change; of budding, flowering, fruiting, and withering away; of processive unfolding; of pain and pleasure, success and failure; of ugliness giving way to beauty and beauty to ugliness. From the contemplation of it we get a feeling for life’s transient beauty sustained over chaos. There is a music to it all, not the least when in a minor key. - Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics, p. 43 V Abstract This thesis deals with, defends, and amends the axiological position called Multicentrism as presented by philosopher Anthony Weston. The question is whether axiological Multicentrism ought to be preferred over other monistic forms of axiological theories, and whether a multicentric axiological theory can withstand the critiques that follow such a view. Multicentrism offers an alternative axiological view than the commanding axiological theories in environmental ethics by arguing for the organic, dynamic, and interrelatedness of environmental values, as well as an embodied application through ethical encounters. Through critiques, additions and amendments this work seeks to strengthen Weston’s multicentric thesis by making it able to solve concrete ethical dilemmas, as well as further strengthening its parallelism with ethical experience.