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Conflict, Conciliation, and the Future of the Planet Conflict, Conciliation, and the Future of the Planet Item Type text; Electronic Dissertation Authors Shahar, Dan Coby Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 29/09/2021 21:32:31 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625463 CONFLICT, CONCILIATION, AND THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET by Dan C. Shahar _______________________ Copyright © Dan C. Shahar 2017 A DissErtation SubmittEd to thE Faculty of thE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY In Partial FulfillmEnt of thE RequirEmEnts For the DEgrEE of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In thE Graduate CollEgE THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2017 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE As members of the Dissertation Committee, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Dan C. Shahar, titled Conflict, Conciliation, and the Future of the Planet, and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ____________________________________________________ Date: May 26th, 2017 David Schmidtz ____________________________________________________ Date: May 26th, 2017 Gerald Gaus ____________________________________________________ Date: May 26th, 2017 Steven Wall Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent upon the candidate’s submission of the final copies of the dissertation to the Graduate College. I hereby certify that I have read this dissertation prepared under my direction and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement. ____________________________________________________ Date: May 26th, 2017 Dissertation Director: David Schmidtz 2 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an advanced degree at the University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this dissertation are allowable without special permission, provided that an accurate acknowledgment of the source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in his or her judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, however, permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED: Dan C. Shahar 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Some of the chapters of this dissertation have been adapted from previously published papers. Chapter 3 revises and expands “Rejecting Eco-Authoritarianism, Again,” published in Environmental Values 24, no. 3 (2015): 345-366. Chapter 4 revises and expands “Turning Adversaries into Allies: Conciliation in Environmental Politics,” published in Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks in Philosophy: Environmental Ethics, edited by David Schmidtz (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Macmillan, 2016), pp. 243-268. Some material from “Turning Adversaries into Allies” also appears in Chapter 1. I am grateful to Macmillan and Environmental Values for allowing me to use these materials in this dissertation. The research presented here has been made possible by the generosity of many organizations. In addition to support provided by the University of Arizona Department of Philosophy and the Arizona Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, I have also been fortunate enough to receive external financial assistance from the H.B. Earhart Foundation, Institute for Humane Studies, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and Thomas W. Smith Foundation. The Institute for Humane Studies and Mercatus Center deserve special mention not only for funding my work, but also for flying me across the country on numerous occasions for seminars and workshops that have greatly enriched my graduate experience. My growth as an academic has benefited from too many people to name, but in the context of this project a few colleagues deserve special thanks. Dave Schmidtz has been as good an advisor and mentor as a person could ask for, hashing out my ideas, reading drafts, and being my advocate on more occasions than I can count. I would not be where I am today if not for Dave, and I hope only to do justice to the opportunities that he has helped me to gain. Likewise, Jerry Gaus and Steve Wall have been great committee members, giving me encouragement and space to develop my ideas but also telling me frankly when I have gone down the wrong path. At the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Taylor Davidson, Michael McKenna, Kerry Montano, Carmen Pavel, Guido Pincione, Dan Russell, and Mario Villarreal-Diaz have been incredible both as sources of support and as intellectual resources. I am especially grateful to have spent my graduate career working with Gayle Siegel and Rosie Johnson, who have always made me feel like a priority even while juggling countless tasks as the Center’s administrative leaders. The whole faculty and staff of the Department of Philosophy have been wonderful to me. But to single out a few people in addition to those already named, Julia Annas, Stew Cohen, Tom Christiano, Michael Gill, Terry Horgan, Laura Howard, Jennan Ismael, Marga Reimer, Connie Rosati, and Mark Timmons have played important roles in helping me become a better thinker and a better professional. Debbie Jackson and Sandra Kimball have been invaluable resources as well; Sandra in particular deserves thanks for enabling me to go about my professional affairs with the appearance of competence despite my ignorance of administrative procedures, university requirements, and techniques for operating the office printer. 4 Since this dissertation was written while I juggled a variety of teaching assignments, a few people deserve special thanks for making my courses run smoothly, thereby giving me more time to write. At the Office of Digital Learning, Melody Buckner, Luis Carrión, Tim Foster, Ginger Hunt, Jacobo Ramirez, Matt Romanoski, and Jose Toro have been amazing to work with, and the same has been true of Gretchen Gibbs at the Office of Instruction and Assessment. Ultimately, the most valuable part of my graduate experience has been interacting with my fellow graduate students. For much of my time at the University of Arizona, Chad Van Schoelandt occupied the desk adjacent to mine in the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. My conversations with him have probably been responsible for as much of my understanding of political philosophy as anything else, and I will always appreciate his friendship. More generally, the political philosophy graduate students at Arizona—Sameer Bajaj, Jacob Barrett, Keith Hankins, Brian Kogelmann, Greg Robson, Alex Schaefer, Daniel Silvermint, Stephen Stich, John Thrasher, Justin Tosi, and Kevin Vallier—have made it virtually impossible not to finish our program with a rich understanding of the field, and I am lucky to count them among my friends. Outside of political philosophy, I should offer special appreciation to Adam Arico, Brandon Ashby, Ann Baril, Kimberly Baeza, Will Braynen, Piper Bringhurst, Michael Bukoski, Mindy Butterworth, Jacob Caton, Bryan Chambliss, Phoebe Chan, Hun Chung, Helen Habermann Daly, Oisín Deery, Matt DeStefano, Ian Evans, Brian Fiala, Mario Ivan Juarez Garcia, Richard Garzón, Adam Gjesdal, Chris Howard, Tim Kearl, Caroline King, Benji Kozuch, Victor Kumar, Grace Lager, Stephen Lenhart, Will Leonard, Justin Lillge, Yael Loewenstein, Theresa Lopez, Brennan McDavid, Joe Metz, Tyler Millhouse, Nathan Oakes, Bill Oberdick, Roberto Parra, Sarah Price, Andrea Pritchard, John Proios, Sarah Raskoff, Kristin Reglitz, Jeremy Reid, Tristan Rogers, Emil Salim, Santi Sanchez Borboa, Matt Schuler, Rachel Schneebaum, Lucy Schwarz, Wes Siscoe, Eric Solis, Tabby Spence, Eyal Tal, Hannah Tierney, Robert Van’t Hoff, Alex von Stein, Robert Wallace, Brandon Warmke, Bjorn Wastvedt, Sean Whitton, and Karolina Wisniewska. All have provided wonderful sources of philosophical conversation and companionship during my time at the University of Arizona. Outside of Tucson, I owe thanks to many people on other campuses who have helped me to reach this point in my professional career, especially including Paul Dragos Aligica, Pete Boettke, Jay Brennan, Harry Brighouse, Mark Budolfson, Phil Cafaro, Gene Callahan, Chris Coyne, Dan D’Amico, Stephen Davies, Kevin Elliott, David Estlund, Bill Glod, Ben Hale, Lauren Hartzell Nichols, Dan Hausman, Trevor Hedberg, Jeanne Hoffman, Lester Hunt, Geoffrey Lea, Mark LeBar, Pete Leeson, Andrew Light, Peter Lipsey, Phil Magness, Elijah Millgram, Mike Munger, Mark Pennington, John Quong, John Tomasi, Virgil Storr, Allen Thompson, Bas Van Der Vossen, Fabian Wendt, Matt Zwolinski. Closer to home, Cate Johnson deserves special thanks for her support, generosity, and excellent cooking since I arrived in Tucson. Of course, the biggest thanks have nothing to do with degree programs or dissertation projects. Thank you, Amy, for being the most wonderful partner and companion I could have ever imagined. Writing this dissertation was a lot of fun, but you know better than anyone that there were low points as well. If not for all of your encouragement over these last few years, I’m not sure I could have finished this project. Now that it’s done, I’m excited to get
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