environmental ethics
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Saving St. Aldo
There is a long-running debate in the field of environmental ethics between Bryan Norton and J. Baird Callicott over the meaning and the legacy of the works of Aldo Leopold. I have been a near observer of one side of this debate, as Bryan’s office was, until his retirement last year, just around the corner… Continue reading
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Everyday Things
In my post of Tuesday afternoon, I made brief mention of an exercise in my environmental ethics class involving a pencil: In my environmental ethics class, I gave each of six groups a single no. 2 pencil – a classic yellow Ticonderoga, as it happens – and asked them first to write down everything they already… Continue reading
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From the Archive: On Expertise
As I’m on holiday break, I’m relying on the archives of my other blog, The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth, to keep things moving along with this new blog. I will resume the development of new posts soon. Today’s entry, from May 27, 2011, takes up a question that is still of concern to me, especially… Continue reading