Frog pond philosophy : essays on the relationship between humans and nature /

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The philanthropist and philosopher Strachan Donnelley (1942-2008) devoted his life to studying the complex relationship between humans and nature. Founder and first president of the Center for Humans and Nature, Donnelley was a pioneer in the exploration and promotion of the idea that human beings i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Donnelley, Strachan (Autor)
Otros Autores: Donnelley, Ceara (Editor ), Jennings, Bruce, 1949- (Editor ), Kirschenmann, Frederick L. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2018]
Colección:Culture of the land.
Temas:
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Human ecology.
Environmental protection.
Human-animal relationships.
Homme > Influence sur la nature.
Homme > Influence de l'environnement.
Écologie humaine.
Environnement > Protection.
Relations homme-animal.
human ecology.
environmental protection.
NATURE > General.
NATURE > Essays.
Essay
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Frederick L. Kirschenmann
  • Introduction
  • I. Two preludes. Prelude : The Marginalist
  • Prelude : The Roots of a Philosophic Vocation--Prairie Ball Fields and Louisville Slugger Ideas
  • II. A Guide for the Naturally Perplexed. Frog Pond Philosophy
  • Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter
  • Kansas on My Mind
  • Scientists' Public Responsibilities
  • Bottom Lines and the Earth's Future
  • Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature : A Landscape of Moral Ecology
  • III. Variations on Aldo Leopold. Nature's Wildness
  • Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers
  • Big Little Snake : Metaphor Mongers and Mountain Rainbows
  • Hunting Hennepin's Windblown Bottom
  • Leopold's Wildness : Can Humans and Wolves Be at Home in the Adirondacks?
  • Leopold's Darwin : Climbing Mountains, Developing Land
  • IV. Recovering a Philosophy of Nature. What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us
  • Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead
  • Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies : Mayr and Jonas
  • Life and the Ethics of Responsibility
  • The Philosopher's Poet : Boris Pasternak's Cosmological Vision
  • V. Postlude. Francis of Mepkin
  • Editors' Afterword.

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