Applying Reflective Equilibrium

This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and defend a precautionary principle. It thereby makes an important and original contribution to questions of philosophical method and methodology. The book shows step-by-step how RE is applied, and develops a methodological framework which will be us…

Global Resource Scarcity Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation?

A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of scarcity to promote cooperation in international relations and diplomacy beyond the traditional b…

Mining and indigenous livelihoods: rights, revenues, and resistance

The space left for indigenous peoples' voices in Canadian and Fennoscandian mining legal frameworks : a comparative analysis / Zoé Boirin-Fargues and Sophie Thériault -- Closure and connection : a Southwest Pacific reappraisal of the mining enclave / Pierre-Yves Le Meur and Glenn Banks -- Foreign investor accountability for the violation of indigenous peoples' rights in international invest…

Land tenure reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, R…

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Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture

Why the "nature versus nurture" debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature

A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of ""nature"" altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Exercises in rethinking innateness: A handbook for connectionist simulations

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Enlivenment :toward a poetics for the Anthropocene

A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature. We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment , German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an alternative understanding of our relationship with nature, arguing not that humans control natur…

Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order

"We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen hel…

The environment :philosophy, science, and ethics

Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers' invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the central philosophical problem posed by the environment involves not what it can teach us about ourselves and our place in the cosmic order but rather how we can understand its workings in order to make better decisions about our own cond…