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Climate Change as a Challenge to Philosophy

Gideon Calder Orcid Logo

Climate Change and the Humanities, Pages: 159 - 175

Swansea University Author: Gideon Calder Orcid Logo

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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...

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Published in: Climate Change and the Humanities
ISBN: 9781137551238
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2017
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