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Animals in our midst : the challenges of co-existing with animals in the anth…
This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offe…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030635237
- Collation
- xv, 579p.; ill.
- Series Title
- The international library of environmental, agricultural and food ethics
- Call Number
- 179.3 ANI b
Ardea : a philosophical novella
What is soul? Can it be forfeited? Can it be traded away? If it can, what would ensue? What consequences would follow from loss of soul — for the individual, for society, for the earth? In the early nineteenth century, Goethe’s hero, Faust, became a defining archetype of modernity, a harbinger of the existential possibilities and moral complexities of the modern condition. But today the dir…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780615845562
- Collation
- x ; 70p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 170 FRE a
Newton's third rule and the experimental argument for universal gravity
This book provides a reading of Newton’s argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton associates with his program of experimental philosophy. It highlights the richness and complexity of the Principia and also draws important lessons about how to situate Newton in his natural philosophical context. The book has two primary objectiv…
- Edition
- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000449419
- Collation
- ix; 116p;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 531.14 NEW M
A climate of justice: An ethical eoundation for environmentalism
This open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of economic, social, and racial justice. Brown shows how our current social climate maintains systemic injustices, and he uncovers resources for ch…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030773632
- Collation
- xix, 185p ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 179.1 BRO a
The eye of the crocodile
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922144171
- Collation
- x, 99p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 591.53 PLU t
Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development : The Netherlands 1850–2050
This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. It applies the well-being monitor developed by Statistics Netherlands that has been endorsed by a significant part of the international, statistical community. It features The Netherlands as a case study, which is an especially interesting example; although it wa…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319766966
- Collation
- xxxii, 572p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 113 WEL w
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