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Summary Philosophical study of Ecology and Conservation Biology is a growing part of Philosophy of Science. Ecology and Conservation Biology are closely-related branches of biology. Ecology studies interactions between groups of organisms and among those groups and their environments. The questions of Conservation Biology arise from efforts to preserve groups of organisms or other biological units like ecosystems. Many of the questions in this area arise from more general questions in philosophy of science like the role of laws, the structure of explanations, the challenges of representation. The specific kinds of complexity arising from the interactions of so many and such different living organisms as are typical of ecological research make Ecology and Conservation Biology fruitful terrain for examining how scientists can represent complexity in a manageable way. Moreover, these biological disciplines are also appealed to in decision making, at scales from the management of a wetland to the development of international climate-change agreements. Some philosophers of science address biologists' capacities to answer the questions arising in these contexts, given the achievements and limitations of these complex sciences.
Key works An early monograph connecting ecology and conservation was Shrader-Frechette 1993. Cooper 2003 was the first monograph in philosophy of science focused on ecology.
Introductions Justus 2013 is an introduction to problems and debates in Philosophy of Ecology written for Biology instructors and other educators, but more generally useful for non-specialists. Colyvan et al 2009 surveys major issues in Philosophy of Ecology. Justus 2002 discusses prominent problems in Conservation Biology, and Sarkar 2004 is an introductory encyclopedia article on the same.
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  1. Theology and Ecology in Dialogue: The Wisdom of Laudato Si’.Martin Harun - 2022 - Diskursus - Jurnal Filsafat dan Teologi STF Driyarkara 18 (2):272-275.
    This is an important book by Dermot A. Lane, widely known as one of the leading theologians in Ireland with a notable international profile; recognized for his work in re-positioning Catholic theology through dialogue with other disciplines, worldviews, and insistent social, cultural and political problems. In this his latest work he explores new roads opened up by Laudato Si’ for contemporary theology; and shows how ecological questions should permeate the whole of theology and Christian faith.
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  2. Filosofía ambiental: epistemología, praxiología, didáctica.Daniel Vidart - 1986 - Bogotá: Editorial Nueva América.
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  3. Integrirui︠u︡shchai︠a︡ funkt︠s︡ii︠a︡ ėkologii v sovremennoĭ nauke: (v pomoshchʹ metodologicheskim seminaram: sbornik nauchnykh trudov.N. P. Denenchuk & N. N. Kiselev (eds.) - 1987 - Kiev: Nauk. dumka.
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  4. A Tökéletlenség és korlátosság dicsérete.Sándor Koch & Pál Juhász-Nagy (eds.) - 1989 - Budapest: Gondolat.
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  5. Garmonizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ sistemy "chelovek--priroda".G. S. Batishchev & A. A. Gorelov (eds.) - 1989 - Moskva: Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR, In-t filosofii.
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  6. Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt, by Dalia Nassar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, xvii +308 pp. ISBN: 9780190095437; hb: £47.99. [REVIEW]Daniel Whistler - forthcoming - European Journal of Philosophy.
    European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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  7. Nauchno-tekhnologicheskoe razvitie i ėkologii︠a︡: filosofsko-metodologicheskiĭ aspekt.Al Romov - 1997 - Moskva: Izd-vo RAGS.
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  8. Ėkologicheskie i sot︠s︡iokulʹturnye aspekty ustoĭchivogo razvitii︠a︡: [sbornik stateĭ.P. A. Vodopʹi︠a︡nova (ed.) - 1997 - Minsk: In-t filosofii i prava ANB, ONIGN ANB.
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  9. El retorno de Ícaro: la razón de la vida: muerte y vida de la filosofía: una propuesta ambiental.Augusto Ángel M. - 2002 - Bogotá, D.C.: UNDP.
    La naturaleza - La vida - El hombre - Homo Sapiens - Homo Sapiens : lo bello, el sexo y el amor - La sociedad : ética y política - Los dioses.
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  10. Ecology and Human Ecology: A Comparison of Theories in the Biological and Social Sciences.Peter J. Richerson - 1977 - American Ethnologist 4 (1):1-26.
    Ecology has been used frequently by social scientists as a source of theoretical models, and biological ecologists have often applied their theory to human populations. Several problems have attended these cross-disciplinary enterprises, including inappropriate uses of teleological models and a failure by both biologists and social scientists to understand the theoretical implications of culture and technology for ecological models. Attention to these problems will increase the applicability of ecological theories in the social sciences.
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  11. The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, by John Bellamy Foster. [REVIEW]Kaan Kangal - 2023 - Science and Society 87 (2):295-297.
  12. Running Away From the Taskscape: Ultramarathon as 'Dark Ecology'.Jim Cherrington, Jack Black & Nicholas Tiller - 2020 - Annals of Leisure Research 23 (2):243-263.
    Drawing on reflections from a collaborative autoethnography, this article argues that ultramarathon running is defied by a 'dark' ecological sensibility (Morton 2007, 2010, 2016), characterised by moments of pain, disgust, and the macabre. In contrast to existing accounts, we problematise the notion that runners 'use' nature for escape and/or competition, while questioning the aesthetic-causal relationships often evinced within these accounts. With specific reference to the discursive, embodied, spatial and temporal aspects of the sport, we explore the way in which participants (...)
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  13. Metabolism in Crisis? A New Interplay Between Physiology and Ecology.Cécilia Bognon-Küss - 2022 - In Christopher Donohue & Charles T. Wolfe (eds.), Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 193-216.
    This chapter investigates the hybrid relationships between metabolism, broadly and a-historically understood as the set of processes through which alien matter is made homogeneous to that of the organism, and forms of vitalism from the eighteenth century on. While metabolic processes have long been modeled in a reductionist fashion as a straightforward function of repair and expansion of a given structure (either chemically, or mechanistically), a challenging vitalist view has characterized metabolism as a creative, organizing, vital faculty. I suggest that (...)
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  14. Epistemic Ecology and Ben Okri’s “Diminishing Boundaries of a Shrinking World” in “Heraclitus’ Golden River” from Wild (2012).Rosemary Gray - 2022 - In Calley A. Hornbuckle, Jadwiga S. Smith & William S. Smith (eds.), Posthumanism and Phenomenology: The Focus on the Modern Condition of Boredom, Solitude, Loneliness and Isolation. Springer Verlag. pp. 149-164.
    Consideration of Okri’s “Heraclitus’ Golden River” occurs here within an epistemic ecology in which Nature and the poetic consciousness conjoin as dialectically twinned tropes – beyond culture and below consciousness. Heraclitus’s “One thunderbolt strikes root through everything,” cited as the epigraph to Okri’s Wild (2012) intimates an African epistemology of cosmic holism, while his concept of the metaphysical capacity of poetry to transform the earth into mother [Gaia] sheltered by the sky and under the sun as an inscrutable god, expressed (...)
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  15. Casimir, Michael J.: Floating Economies. The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India.Berthold Riese - 2021 - Anthropos 116 (2):478-478.
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  16. Diskurs ėkologii v filosofii i nravstvennom bogoslovii: monografii︠a︡.Nikolaĭ Shevchenko - 2010 - Belgorod: V Belgorodskom gosudarstvennom tekhnologicheskom universitete im. V.G. Shukhova. Edited by V. P. Polui︠a︡nov.
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  17. Dang dai sheng tai zhe xue gou jian: "Sheng tai zhe xue yu wen hua" yan tao hui lun wen ji.Lijiang Shen (ed.) - 2011 - Hangzhou: Zhejiang da xue chu ban she.
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  18. Portraits de philosophes en écologistes.Hicham-Stéphane Afeissa - 2012 - [Paris]: Éditions Dehors.
    Si nul ne sait ce que peut un environnement, nul ne sait sans doute davantage ce que peut être de nos jours une philosophie de l’environnement. Aussi est-il souhaitable de faire dialoguer des philosophes d’ici et d’ailleurs, d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, que nous avons tendance à tenir pour étrangers aux problèmes environnementaux parce que nous négligeons le plus souvent de les interroger sur ce chapitre où les questions et les réponses semblent connues d’avance. En tirant le portrait sur fond de crise (...)
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  19. Eco-etica: per un futuro possibile.Fabio Caporali, Silvana Procacci & Aurelio Rizzacasa (eds.) - 2012 - Perugia: Morlacchi editore.
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  20. From ecophilosophy to degrowth.Karl Georg Høyer & Petter Næss - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  21. Nordic ecophilosophy and critical realism.Trond Tansmo Jakobsen - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  22. Precautionary science : the ecophilosophical foundation.Karl Georg Høyer - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  23. Human rights and ecology as premises for practical standpoints.Jon Wetlesen - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  24. Global and local ; On making sense of the human environment : the problem.Torsten Hägerstrand - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  25. A provocative pessimism : a postscript on the scientific worldview and global order.Georg Henrik von Wright - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  26. Gaia versus Servoglobe.Sigmund Kvaløy Setereng - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  27. The deep ecological movement : some philosophical aspects.Arne Næss - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  28. A biosophical perspective : humans as a tragic species.Peter Wessel Zapffe - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  29. Ecophilosophy and the contemporary environmental debate.Karl Georg Høyer - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  30. Critical realism in resonance with Nordic ecophilosophy.Roy Bhaskar - 2012 - In Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  31. Technology nature and ethics.Arne Johan Vetlesen - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  32. Introductory perspectives.Karl Georg Høyer & Petter Næss - 2012 - In Roy Bhaskar (ed.), Ecophilosophy in a world of crisis: critical realism and the Nordic contributions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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  33. On the forms of harm stemming from the instrumentalization of large-scale ecosystems.Sarah Espinosa & S. I. Espinosa Flor - 2022 - Transforming Food Systems: Ethics, Innovation and Responsibility.
    One could argue that the use, extraction, and development of natural resources for human purposes, i.e. resource exploitation, constitutes a form of instrumentalization of the ecosystems from which these resources are derived. Moreover, that such instrumentalization may be carried out in a way that has adverse social and environmental impacts. Given that a number of ecosystems are indispensable for the satisfaction of human interests and needs, their instrumentalization may nevertheless be justified. In this context, if the amount and rate of (...)
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  34. Connection to Nature and the Case for Deep Ecology.Christian Diehm - 2022 - Ethics and the Environment 27 (2):59-81.
    Abstract:This essay argues for the continuing import and relevance of deep ecological philosophy by reading it together with explorations of connection to nature in the social sciences. It begins by clarifying deep ecological concepts of "identification" with nature. It then argues that these conceptualizations align with notions of human-nature connectedness employed by social scientists, and that empirical research largely corroborates deep ecologists' claims about the practical significance of a sense of connection to the natural world. Finally, it reviews literature discussing (...)
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  35. A Studies of Deep Ecology Thoughts.Yi Lei - unknown
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  36. Politics and Ecology among Calvino’s Trees.Serenella Iovino - 2022 - The Harvard Review of Philosophy 29:55-67.
    This article examines one of Italo Calvino’s most beloved novels, (1957), contextualizing it in its landscape and exploring the multifaceted strands of its environmental creativity. Unsuspected paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology will emerge, thus showing the timeliness and clairvoyance of his books vis-à-vis our planetary crises. Written in a seminarrative form, this piece is an invitation to read literary works not only along with their landscapes, but their landscapes, and to consider the potential (...)
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  37. Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa.Dawn Herrera - forthcoming - Contemporary Political Theory:1-23.
    Hannah Arendt famously argued that acts of violence are corrosive to a free and plural politics. However, the broader implications of her critique of violence are less well known. Reading her concept of violence comprehensively, with regard to (ostensibly non-political) labor and work as well as action, this article reveals its broader relevance for contemporary political thought: the political question of violence lies at the heart of our ecological crisis and is crucial for the social structure of labor domination. While (...)
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  38. FUCHS, THOMAS, Ecology of the Brain. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, 370 pp. [REVIEW]José Ignacio Murillo - 2018 - Anuario Filosófico 51 (3):598-601.
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  39. The Katu spirit landscape: forests, ecology, and cosmology in the central Annamites.Nikolas Århem - 2022 - In Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen (eds.), Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation. Routledge.
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  40. Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation.Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen (eds.) - 2022 - New York: Routledge.
    Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene. Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local resource management practices, and environmental governance systems developed during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods. Adopting theoretical perspectives from political ecology, (...)
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  41. Introduction - The political ecology of resource and energy management beyond the state.Jennifer Mateer, Simon Springer & Martin Locret-Collet - 2021 - In Jennifer Mateer, Simon Springer, Martin Locret-Collet & Maleea Acker (eds.), Energies Beyond the State: Anarchist Political Ecology and the Liberation of Nature. Rowman & Littlefield.
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  42. Energies Beyond the State: Anarchist Political Ecology and the Liberation of Nature.Jennifer Mateer, Simon Springer, Martin Locret-Collet & Maleea Acker (eds.) - 2021 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
    This volume contributes to advancing an 'ecology of freedom,' which can critique current anthropocentric environmental destruction, as well as focusing on environmental justice and decentralized ecological governance.
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  43. The synthetic thesis of truth helps mitigate the reproducibility crisis and is an inspiration for predictive ecology.Luis Marone, Javier Lopez de Casenave & Rafael González del Solar - 2019 - Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso 14:363-376.
    There are currently serious concerns that published scientific findings often fail to be reproducible, and that some solutions may be gleaned by attending the several methodological and sociological recommendations that could be found in the literature. However, researchers would also arrive at some answers by considering the advice of the philosophy of science, particularly semantics, about theses on truth related to scientific realism. Sometimes scientists understand the correspondence thesis of truth as asserting that the next unique empirical confirmation of a (...)
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  44. Open Data requirements for applied ecology and conservation: case study of a wide-ranging marine vertebrate.Gail Schofield - 2017 - Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 17:19-27.
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  45. Climate Change and Conservation Biology as it Relates to Urban Environments.Samantha Noll & Michael Goldsby - 2020 - Recerca.Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi 25 (2).
    Climate change continues to have recognizable impacts across the globe, as weather patterns shift and impacts accumulate and intensify. In this wider context, urban areas face significant challenges as they attempt to mitigate dynamic changes at the local level — changes such as those caused by intensifying weather events, the disruption of critical supplies, and the deterioration of local ecosystems. One field that could help urban areas address these challenges is conservation biology. However, this paper presents the argument that work (...)
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  46. 1 Ecology.Mireille Rosello & Timothy Saunders - 2022 - In Johan Schimanski & Stephen F. Wolfe (eds.), Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections. Berghahn Books. pp. 25-49.
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  47. The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation by Frédéric Neyrat.David Utsler - 2020 - Review of Metaphysics 74 (2):404-406.
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  48. The Call of the Hoatzin: Ecology, Evolution, and Eugenics at the Bronx Zoo.Katherine McLeod - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (3):683-704.
    From 1908 to 1922, William Beebe, the curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, tried unsuccessfully to bring tropical birds known as hoatzin to the zoological park in the Bronx run by the New York Zoological Society. Beebe was committed to bringing hoatzin to the zoo because he thought they could reveal scientific truths about ecology and evolution to him and the visiting public. While contemporary scholarship about zoo science in the United States has focused on how environmental conservation shaped (...)
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  49. Martin Heidegger’s ‘Dasein’ in an Emerging Digital Ecology.Ben van Lier - forthcoming - Foundations of Science:1-24.
    We are currently in the middle of the transformation from Martin Heidegger’s modern society to a society based on digital technology. In the developing digital society, humans in their current state of ‘Being’ are increasingly surrounded by systems that are networked and run based on algorithms, software, and data. These interconnected systems function, communicate, and interact in networks and driven by these algorithms, software, and data, which give them the ability to connect, calculate, and reveal. Jointly, these systems thus create (...)
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  50. Zhongguo huan jing wen ti de wen hua guan sheng si yu jue ze.Fengzi Jia - 2013 - Dalian: Dalian hai shi da xue chu ban she. Edited by Jiantao Liu.
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