Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature: Theory and PracticeThomas Heyd Columbia University Press, 09/11/2005 - 232 páginas How do the ways in which we think about and describe nature shape the use and protection of the environment? Do our seemingly well-intentioned efforts in environmental conservation reflect a respect for nature or our desire to control nature's wildness? The contributors to this collection address these and other questions as they explore the theoretical and practical implications of a crucial aspect of environmental philosophy and policy-the autonomy of nature. In focusing on the recognition and meaning of nature's autonomy and linking issues of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and policy, the essays provide a variety of new perspectives on human relationships to nature. |
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... nonhuman nature in its totality , or any part of it , may be said to act at all . If it reasonably could be said that it acts , even if only in an attenuated way , it would open up the space to ask whether this entailed moral ...
... nonhuman inhabitants , which incited me to reflect on practi- cally effective proconservation arguments . Next , I clarify how most procon- servation arguments can become ineffective because of changes in perspec- tive among human ...
... nonhuman nature in itself need not be anthropoceHfric , since , ex hypothesi , the valuing activity is centered on nature and not on human beings . Holmes Rolston III , among others , argues more- over that the intrinsic value of nature ...
... volume , takes nature's autonomy to consist of relative independence from humanity . She proposes a " partnership ethic " between human beings and nonhuman nature , such that human beings RECOGNIZING THE AUTONOMY OF NATURE 7.
Theory and Practice Thomas Heyd. human beings and nonhuman nature , such that human beings , " as the bearers of ethics , would acknowledge nonhuman nature as an autonomous actor that cannot be predicted or controlled except in very ...
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Nature and Autonomy of Nature Are They Real? | 23 |
Toward a Progressive Naturalism | 25 |
Is Nature Autonomous? | 54 |
Autonomous Nature and Human Interests Are They Compatible? | 75 |
The Liberation of Humanity and Nature | 77 |
Respecting Natures Autonomy in Relationship with Humanity | 86 |
Autonomy and Agriculture | 99 |
Homo Administrator Managing a Needy Nature? | 121 |
Purple Loosestrife and the Bounding of Nature in North American Wetlands | 137 |
Restoration Autonomy and Domination | 154 |
Ecological Restoration and the Renewal of Wildness and Freedom | 170 |
Autonomy Restoration and the Law of Nature | 189 |
List of Contributors | 207 |
Index | 211 |
Management Restoration and the Autonomy of Nature A Paradox? | 119 |
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