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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... 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 ...
... question whether nature could be held morally responsible for the effects of events such as floods or earthquakes . Although rather skeptical about the sense of holding nature responsible , I was intrigued by the question whether ...
... question here , we may nonetheless speak about the activity of valuing some entity a certain way . Roughly , it seems that we may value an entity in our world in three different ways : for itself , for its instrumental util- ity to some ...
... question whether any kind of influence on nature may be seen as domination . The third issue addressed is the question whether human beings can be consid- ered as participants in ecosystems in such a way that their activities may be ...
... question whether apparently well - intentioned restoration efforts to free nature from supposed problems ( such as exotics ) often are mere expressions of the human desire to control nature , thereby , again , subtly thwarting na ...
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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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