environmental ethics
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On Sleeping through the Night, Part 2
Now for the second main section of my recent manuscript, “On Sleeping through the Night: Ecology, Economy and Ethics of a Vital Human Project.” 2. The Problem of Sleeping through the Night The peculiarity of sleep as a project is the source of what is most compelling about it as a matter of ethical and… Continue reading
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On Sleeping through the Night, Part 1
Continuing the serialization of my recent manuscript – “On Sleeping through the Night: Ecology, Economy and Ethics of a Vital Human Project.” – with the first main section. 1. The Peculiarity of Sleep as a Project As far as we know, all – or very nearly all – animals spend some fraction of their lives… Continue reading
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Sleeper Project
Please pardon the pun – well, really, a double pun, though that may not be obvious just yet. Read on to see what I mean. How did I come to be writing a paper about, of all things, sleep? It’s the convergence of threads which have been running through my research, some of them stretching… Continue reading
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On Sleeping through the Night, Introduction
I have a new paper, currently under review, which marks my return to a primary focus on environmental philosophy. This one comes from an odd angle, and it would take a while to explain how it all happened. I may get back to that a bit later but, for now, I’ll post a serialized version… Continue reading
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Systems Imagination in Environmental Ethics
My current approach to teaching environmental ethics puts a heavy emphasis on awareness of systems, as I’ve noted before, more than once. I’ll post something tomorrow about the scaffolding I’ve started to develop to help students in my current section of the course, but in the mean time I’d like to note one of the… Continue reading
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Darwinian Humanism
In honor of Darwin Day 2015, I would like to revisit an odd paper I had published in Environmental Values in 2007, titled “Darwinian Humanism: A Proposal for Environmental Ethics“. I would here like to offer a few – I hope tantalizing – excerpts from my final typescript. In hindsight, it was an odd and… Continue reading
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From the Archive: Confessions of a Former Objectivist, part two
Continuing the deep dive, a post from February 14, 2007. Note that I never did post any text from the paper I wrote in my senior year at Miami. I dug it out and read it over and, as I should have anticipated, it wasn’t very good as writing. I do remember the experience of… Continue reading
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From the Archive: Oil Liberation!
As an over-the-weekend teaser for a couple of posts I’m planning for next week, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek entry from my other blog, The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth, from April 7, 2014. _________ Oil Liberation! A longtime friend posted a link on Facebook to an article bearing the headline: Vast oil trove trapped in Monterey Shale… Continue reading