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    Evolution, Morality and the Meaning of Life. Jeffrie G. Murphy.Peter S. Wenz - 1983 - Ethics 94 (1):140-142.
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    [Book review] environmental ethics, duties to and values in the natural world. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 1989 - Ethics 100:195-197.
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  3. Environmental Justice.Peter S. Wenz - 1989 - Ethics 100 (1):197-198.
     
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  4. Just garbage.Peter S. Wenz - 2010 - In Craig Hanks (ed.), Technology and Values: Essential Readings. Wiley-Blackwell.
     
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    Environmental Ethics Today.Peter S. Wenz - 2001 - Oup Usa.
    In this book, Peter Wenz addresses the major issues and thinkers in environmental ethics. His style is accessible, even journalistic at times, featuring current facts, real controversies, and a vivid narrative, while preserving rigorous philosophical content.theories and methods are introduced, not for their own sake, but to help the reader understand and solve environmental problems.
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    Minimal, moderate, and extreme moral pluralism.Peter S. Wenz - 1993 - Environmental Ethics 15 (1):61-74.
    Concentrating on the views of Christopher Stone, who advocates moral pluralism, and J. Baird Callicott, who criticizes Stone’s views, I argue that the debate has been confused by a conflation of three different positions, here called minimal, moderate, and extreme moral pluralism. Minimal pluralism is uncontroversial because all known moral theories are minimally pluralistic. Extreme pluralism is defective in the ways that Callicott alleges and, moreover, is inconsistent with integrity in the moral life. However, moderate pluralism of the sort that (...)
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    An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism.Peter S. Wenz - unknown
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  8. Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New Century.Wilson Carey McWilliams, Bob Pepperman Taylor, Bryan G. Norton, Robyn Eckersley, Joe Bowersox, J. Baird Callicott, Catriona Sandilands, John Barry, Andrew Light, Peter S. Wenz, Luis A. Vivanco, Tim Hayward, John O'Neill, Robert Paehlke, Timothy W. Luke, Robert Gottlieb & Charles T. Rubin (eds.) - 2002 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    In Democracy and the Claims of Nature, the leading thinkers in the fields of environmental, political, and social theory come together to discuss the tensions and sympathies of democratic ideals and environmental values. The prominent contributors reflect upon where we stand in our understanding of the relationship between democracy and the claims of nature. Democracy and the Claims of Nature bridges the gap between the often competing ideals of the two fields, leading to a greater understanding of each for the (...)
     
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    Minimal, Moderate, and Extreme Moral Pluralism.Peter S. Wenz - 1993 - Environmental Ethics 15 (1):61-74.
    Concentrating on the views of Christopher Stone, who advocates moral pluralism, and J. Baird Callicott, who criticizes Stone’s views, I argue that the debate has been confused by a conflation of three different positions, here called minimal, moderate, and extreme moral pluralism. Minimal pluralism is uncontroversial because all known moral theories are minimally pluralistic. Extreme pluralism is defective in the ways that Callicott alleges and, moreover, is inconsistent with integrity in the moral life. However, moderate pluralism of the sort that (...)
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    Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice.Hussein M. Adam, Elizabeth Bell, Robert D. Bullard, Robert Melchior Figueroa, Clarice E. Gaylord, Segun Gbadegesin, R. J. A. Goodland, Howard McCurdy, Charles Mills, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Peter S. Wenz & Daniel C. Wigley (eds.) - 2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South.
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    Pragmatism in Practice: The Efficiency of Sustainable Agriculture.Peter S. Wenz - 1999 - Environmental Ethics 21 (4):391-410.
    Bryan Norton advocates using the perspectives and methods of American pragmatism in environmental philosophy. J. Baird Callicott criticizes Norton’s view as unproductive anti-philosophy. I find worth and deficiencies in both sides. On the one hand, I support the pragmatic approach, illustrating its use in an argument for sustainable agriculture. On the other hand, I take issue with Norton’s claim that pragmatists should confine themselves to anthrpocentric arguments. Here I agree with Callicott’s inclusion of nonanthropocentric consideration. However, I reject Callicott’s moral (...)
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    Berkeley's Christian Neo-Platonism.Peter S. Wenz - 1976 - Journal of the History of Ideas 37 (3):537.
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    The Critique of Berkeley’s Empiricism In Orwell’s 1984.Peter S. Wenz - 1986 - Idealistic Studies 16 (2):133-152.
    George Orwell wrote to Roger Senhouse upon completion of 1984 that the work was designed in part “to indicate by parodying them the intellectual implications of totalitarianism.” The implications for social and political philosophy have furnished a generation of readers with frightening realizations. I will attempt in what follows to show that the implications for epistemology and metaphysics are equally central to the book’s message, and equally discomfitting to philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition. The book connects totalitarianism with the entire (...)
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    The incompatibility of act-utilitarianism with moral integrity.Peter S. Wenz - 1979 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 17 (4):547-553.
    Bernard williams' monograph in "utilitarianism: for and against" contains an argument that utilitarianism is incompatible with personal integrity. though his argument is fatally flawed, its conclusion is supported in the present paper, which argues that the act utilitarianism (au) defended by j j c smart in "utilitarianism: for and against" tends to deprive its adherents of moral integrity. after briefly reviewing smart's version of au, i recount williams' argument and carr's reply concerning a link between au and a loss of (...)
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    Environmental Pragmatism.Peter S. Wenz - 1997 - Environmental Ethics 19 (3):327-330.
    Wenz reviews "Environmental Pragmatism" edited by Andrew Light and Eric Katz.
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    Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates.Peter S. Wenz - 2009 - MIT Press.
    On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Canada. But in fact, writes Peter Wenz in _Beyond Red and Blue_, Americans do not divide neatly into two ideological camps of red/blue, Republican/Democrat, right/left. In real life, as Wenz shows, different ideologies can converge on certain issues; people from the right and left can support the same policy for different reasons. Thus, for example, libertarian-leaning Republicans can oppose (...)
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    Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates.Peter S. Wenz - 2012 - MIT Press.
    On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Canada. But in fact, writes Peter Wenz in _Beyond Red and Blue_, Americans do not divide neatly into two ideological camps of red/blue, Republican/Democrat, right/left. In real life, as Wenz shows, different ideologies can converge on certain issues; people from the right and left can support the same policy for different reasons. Thus, for example, libertarian-leaning Republicans can oppose (...)
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    Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda.Peter S. Wenz - 2012 - MIT Press.
    Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on education, the construction of a vast network of interstate highways, healthcare for senior citizens, and environmental protection. These projects were paid for by a steeply progressive tax code, with a top tax rate at one point during the Republican Eisenhower administration of 91 percent. Today, a similar agenda of government action would be portrayed as dangerously left wing. At the same (...)
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    Alternate foundations for the land ethic: Biologism, cognitivism, and pragmatism.Peter S. Wenz - 1993 - Topoi 12 (1):53-67.
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    Environmental synergism.Peter S. Wenz - 2002 - Environmental Ethics 24 (4):389-408.
    Some anthropocentrists, such as Bryan Norton, claim that intergenerational anthropocentrism provides the best rationale for protecting biodiversity. Some nonanthropocentrists, such as J. Baird Callicott and Eric Katz, disagree. In the present paper, I analyze different varieties of anthropocentrism, argue for adopting what is here called multicultural anthropocentrism, and then advance the following thesis of environmental synergism: combining multicultural anthropocentrism with nonanthropocentrism enables synergists to argue more cogently and effectively than either anthropocentrists or previous nonanthropocentrists for policies that both protect biodiversity (...)
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  21. Human Equality in Sports.Peter S. Wenz - 1981 - Philosophical Forum 12 (3):238.
     
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  22. Wrongness, wisdom, and wilderness: Toward a libertarian theory of ethics and the environment.Peter S. Wenz - 1999 - Environmental Ethics 21 (1):105-108.
     
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    Environmental Philosophy. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 2003 - Environmental Ethics 25 (3):317-320.
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    Peacemaking in Practice: A Response to Jim Sterba.Peter S. Wenz - 2000 - Environmental Ethics 22 (4):441-442.
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    Caring for Creation. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 1997 - International Studies in Philosophy 29 (1):141-142.
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    Against Cruelty to Animals. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 2007 - Social Theory and Practice 33 (1):127-150.
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    Book Review:Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World. Holmes Rolston III. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 1989 - Ethics 100 (1):195-.
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    The Incompatibility of Act-Utilitarianism with Moral Integrity.Peter S. Wenz - 1979 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 17 (4):547-553.
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    Contracts, Animals, and Ecosystems. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 1993 - Social Theory and Practice 19 (3):315-344.
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    Justice for here and now.Peter S. Wenz - 2000 - Environmental Ethics 22 (3):311-314.
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    Leopold's novel:The land ethic in Barbara kingsolver'sprodigal summer.Peter S. Wenz - 2003 - Ethics and the Environment 8 (2):106-125.
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    Environmental Synergism.Peter S. Wenz - 2002 - Environmental Ethics 24 (4):389-408.
    Some anthropocentrists, such as Bryan Norton, claim that intergenerational anthropocentrism provides the best rationale for protecting biodiversity. Some nonanthropocentrists, such as J. Baird Callicott and Eric Katz, disagree. In the present paper, I analyze different varieties of anthropocentrism, argue for adopting what is here called multicultural anthropocentrism, and then advance the following thesis of environmental synergism: combining multicultural anthropocentrism with nonanthropocentrism enables synergists to argue more cogently and effectively than either anthropocentrists or previous nonanthropocentrists for policies that both protect biodiversity (...)
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    Conservatism and Conservation.Peter S. Wenz - 1986 - Philosophy 61 (238):503 - 512.
    Utilitarians believe that personal decisions and public policies should be made so as to maximize the public good, or, as Jeremy Bentham put it, to produce the greatest good of the greatest number. Bentham identified the public good with the maximization of happiness, and believed that many traditional practices were inimical to the production of happiness. So in the name of maximizing the public good, Bentham advocated, for example, extending the franchise, reforming the criminal code and re-designing prisons. People's prejudices (...)
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    Article Review of The Nature and Possibility of an Environmental Ethic, Environmental Ethics.Peter S. Wenz - unknown
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    Environmental Philosophy. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 2003 - Environmental Ethics 25 (3):317-320.
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    Concentric Circle Pluralism: A Response to Rolston.Peter S. Wenz - 1989 - Between the Species 5 (3):9.
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  37. Act-Utilitarianism and Animal Liberation.Peter S. Wenz - 1979 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 60 (4):423.
     
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    Leopold's novel: The land ethic in Barbara kingsolver's.Peter S. Wenz - 2003 - Ethics and the Environment 8 (2):106-125.
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    Berkeley's Two Concepts of Impossibility: a Reply to Mckim.Peter S. Wenz - 1982 - Journal of the History of Ideas 43 (4):673.
    In my paper, "berkeley's christian neo-Platonism" ("journal of the history of ideas", July, 1976) I had maintained that george berkeley was a christian neo-Platonist who believed that abstract ideas exist in the mind of god, And that God used these ideas as archetypes during creation. Robert mckim commented that berkeley considered abstract ideas to be logical impossibilities, And therefore did not believe them to exist in god's mind. My reply is that berkeley employs two different concepts of impossibility for two (...)
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  40. Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice.Hussein M. Adam, Elizabeth Bell, Robert D. Bullard, Robert Melchior Figueroa, Clarice E. Gaylord, Segun Gbadegesin, R. J. A. Goodland, Howard McCurdy, Charles Mills, Dr Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Peter S. Wenz & Daniel C. Wigley - 2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South.
     
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    Caring for Creation. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 1997 - International Studies in Philosophy 29 (1):141-142.
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    Leopold's Novel: The Land Ethic in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer.Peter S. Wenz - 2003 - Ethics and the Environment 8 (2):106 - 125.
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    Pragmatism in practice: The efficiency of sustainable agriculture.Peter S. Wenz - 1999 - Environmental Ethics 21 (4):391-410.
    Bryan Norton advocates using the perspectives and methods of American pragmatism in environmental philosophy. J. Baird Callicott criticizes Norton’s view as unproductive anti-philosophy. I find worth and deficiencies in both sides. On the one hand, I support the pragmatic approach, illustrating its use in an argument for sustainable agriculture. On the other hand, I take issue with Norton’s claim that pragmatists should confine themselves to anthrpocentric arguments. Here I agree with Callicott’s inclusion of nonanthropocentric consideration. However, I reject Callicott’s moral (...)
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    Dworkin’s Wishful-Thinkers Constitution.Peter S. Wenz - 1998 - The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 33:76-81.
    Developing ideas first put forth in my Abortion Rights as Religious Freedom, I argue against Ronald Dworkin's liberal view of constitutional interpretation while rejecting the originalism of Justices Scalia and Bork. I champion the view that Justice Black presents in his dissent in Griswold v. Connecticut.
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    Justice for Here and Now. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 2000 - Environmental Ethics 22 (3):311-314.
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    [Book review] nature's keeper. [REVIEW]Peter S. Wenz - 1999 - Social Theory and Practice 25 (1):149-154.
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    Treating Animals Naturally.Peter S. Wenz - 1989 - Between the Species 5 (1):3.
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