In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. By J. Baird Callicott

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-99
Author(s):  
S. Ebenreck
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Land Ethic

THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene J. Klaver
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
The Future

Dewey and Environmental Philosophy

2017 ◽  
pp. 712-732
Author(s):  
Paul B. Thompson ◽  
Zachary Piso
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Human Control ◽  
The Core ◽  
Environmental Pragmatism

Though environmental philosophers trace the roots of environmental awareness to the decades of John Dewey’s prominence, Dewey himself was conspicuously mum about the environmental controversies of his day. A Deweyan environmental pragmatism, then, must find sustenance in less prosaically environmental themes of the American philosopher’s project. This chapter attends to Dewey’s notion of organism-environment interaction, which is at the core of Dewey’s understanding of experience and which informs Dewey’s philosophy from epistemology to aesthetics. The chapter stresses that Dewey’s notion of organism-environment interaction is an account of how organisms dynamically respond to changes in their environment. However, contrary to several misinterpretations of environmental pragmatism, this dynamic responsiveness is not a call for human control over nature. Indeed, we conclude that an environmental philosophy oriented by Dewey’s notion of organism-environment interaction provides promising approaches to interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and environmental justice.

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