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The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Book review of The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement, edited by Mechtild E. Nagel and Anthony J. Nocella (2013)
Williams, Carmen Lanos
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
wiley   +1 more source

Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What could philosophical or justice perspectives contribute to climate (and other applied philosophy) policy discussions? This question is important for philosophers on government policy committees. This article identifies two novel concerns about such contexts (which I call ‘contingent selection’ and ‘committee deference’) and systematizes ...
Kian Mintz‐Woo
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropocentrism in language and linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
У статті простежено етапи розвитку антропоцентричного підходу до вивчення мовних явищ та з’ясовано особливості антропоцентричної суті мови, насамперед, у процесі формування мовної картини світу. Зроблено акцент на тому, що засади домінантних для сучасної
Саєвич, Ірина Георгіївна
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‘Let's Go to the Land Instead’: Indigenous Perspectives on Biodiversity and the Possibilities of Regenerative Capital

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The land has been a source of capital accumulation since colonization through extractive activities like mining and industrial agriculture. Indigenous peoples have profoundly different relationships with the land, which are more relational than extractive. However, their knowledge has been subjugated by and systematically excluded from Western
Diane‐Laure Arjaliès   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A philosophical outlook on potential conflicts between planetary protection, astrobiology and commercial use of space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this chapter is to use philosophy and, in particular ethical theory, to identify and explore some potential ...
Persson, Erik
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
wiley   +1 more source

Virtue, Environmental Ethics, Nonhuman Values, and Anthropocentrism

open access: yesPhilosophies
This article discusses the encounter between virtue ethics and environmental ethics and the ways in which environmental virtue ethics confronts nonhuman axiology and the controversial theme of moral anthropocentrism.
Marcello Di Paola
doaj   +1 more source

Философское и лингвистическое осмысление категории антропоцентричности [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
The article in question deals with the category of anthropocentrism, the ways the latter is treated both in philosophy and linguistics. The mentioned category is dealt with here in terms of coguition evolution.
Leshchenko, Olha Illivna   +5 more
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