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Climate Change as a Challenge to Philosophy
Gideon Calder 
Climate Change and the Humanities, Pages: 159 - 175
Swansea University Author:
Gideon Calder
Abstract
This chapter has three main parts. Part 1 looks at the very idea of 'doing' environmental philosophy, and distinguishes two contrasting ways in which this happens. In Part 2 I argue that commitments to (contestable) conceptions of 'nature' and 'culture', and the relatio...
| Published in: | Climate Change and the Humanities |
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| ISBN: | 9781137551238 |
| Published: |
London
Palgrave Macmillan
2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa37058 |
| Abstract: |
This chapter has three main parts. Part 1 looks at the very idea of 'doing' environmental philosophy, and distinguishes two contrasting ways in which this happens. In Part 2 I argue that commitments to (contestable) conceptions of 'nature' and 'culture', and the relation between the two, are inevitable - and a core part of any viable philosophical treatment of climate change. I also show how some dominant trends in recent philosophy can be seen as hindering an adequate working-through of such commitments. Part 3 weighs up the implications of the discussion as a whole for philosophical treatments of climate change - both in terms of their specific value, and their limitations. |
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| Keywords: |
climate change; philosophy; applied ethics; nature; culture; ontology |
| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
| Start Page: |
159 |
| End Page: |
175 |