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A Theory of Value and Obligation
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This article is published in Philosophical Books.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Obligation & Value theory.read more
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The need to respect nature and its limits challenges society and conservation science
TL;DR: It is analyzed how respecting the biosphere’s ecological limits squarely conflicts with an economy centered on growth and technology to mitigate environmental stress, and the role conservation science can play in this transformation, which poses ethical challenges and obstacles.
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Anthropocentrism: A Misunderstood Problem
TL;DR: This article argued that the defects associated with anthropocentrism in ethics are better understood as instances of speciesism and human chauvinism, and that it is unhelpful to call these defects anthropocrism because there is an ineliminable element of anthropocentrinism in any ethic at all.
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Geography, paradox and environmental ethics
TL;DR: This paper reviewed ontological and epistemological tensions within geography and connected these tensions to important philosophical dimensions of environmental ethics, arguing that normative environmental ethics must be built on an adequate sensitivity to the nature/culture tension, and that environmental meta-ethics - specifically, the problem of relativism as applied to environmental discourse - must be similarly informed by the object/subject tension.
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Nozick's experience machine is dead, long live the experience machine!
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that if an experience machine thought experiment is used to evaluate internalist mental state theories of well-being, then this relatively bias-free scenario should be used over any of the existing scenarios.
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Harming and benefiting the dead.
TL;DR: This article takes as its focus one aspect of the continuing relationship between the living and the dead, and begins with the noncontroversial claim that some actions that involve the dead are wrong from an ethical perspective.
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The need to respect nature and its limits challenges society and conservation science
TL;DR: It is analyzed how respecting the biosphere’s ecological limits squarely conflicts with an economy centered on growth and technology to mitigate environmental stress, and the role conservation science can play in this transformation, which poses ethical challenges and obstacles.
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Anthropocentrism: A Misunderstood Problem
TL;DR: This article argued that the defects associated with anthropocentrism in ethics are better understood as instances of speciesism and human chauvinism, and that it is unhelpful to call these defects anthropocrism because there is an ineliminable element of anthropocentrinism in any ethic at all.
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Geography, paradox and environmental ethics
TL;DR: This paper reviewed ontological and epistemological tensions within geography and connected these tensions to important philosophical dimensions of environmental ethics, arguing that normative environmental ethics must be built on an adequate sensitivity to the nature/culture tension, and that environmental meta-ethics - specifically, the problem of relativism as applied to environmental discourse - must be similarly informed by the object/subject tension.
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Nozick's experience machine is dead, long live the experience machine!
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that if an experience machine thought experiment is used to evaluate internalist mental state theories of well-being, then this relatively bias-free scenario should be used over any of the existing scenarios.
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Harming and benefiting the dead.
TL;DR: This article takes as its focus one aspect of the continuing relationship between the living and the dead, and begins with the noncontroversial claim that some actions that involve the dead are wrong from an ethical perspective.