Edited by Demian Wheeler and David E. Conner
This book contends that philosophy can help us formulate and defend more adequate, plausible, and beneficial outlooks on the natural world and the place of human beings within the community of earthly creatures. The essays in this volume are not limited to any single theme or subject. Some of the chapters are focused on the impact of various philosophical perspectives on environmentalism. Others roam into issues of Western philosophy stretching all the way from Plato and Aristotle to Bergson and Whitehead. Notwithstanding this diversity of topics, all of the authors attempt in varying ways to draw conclusions that are relevant to a renewed commitment to the health of planet Earth. The shared goal of all the chapters is to find new philosophical and theological inspiration as we human creatures seek to respond imaginatively, constructively, and creatively to the ecological issues of our age, recognizing that we desperately need to conceive an alternative to the pervasive worldviews that have led our civilization to the brink of catastrophe.
- Series: Toward Ecological Civilization
- Paperback: 328 pages
- ISBN-13: 978-1940447407
- Price: $18.00
Table of Contents
Part One: Alfred North Whitehead and the Western Philosophic Tradition
1. Rebalancing What Is Useful in Western Philosophy for Present Philosophy, Robert Cummings Neville
2. Another Footnote to Plato, George Allan
3. Living for Beauty: Pater, Plato, and Whitehead, J. Thomas Howe
4. Bergson and Whitehead: Dueling Platonists, Pete A.Y. Gunter
5. Beyond Human Virtue, Patrick Shade
Part Two: Varieties of Process Thought
6. Coming Down to Earth: A Process-Panentheist Reorientation to Nature, Anna Case-Winters
7. Seizing a Whiteheadian Alternative: A Retrieval of the Empirical Option in Process Thought, Demian Wheeler
8. Process Polytheism, Eric Steinhart
Part Three: Emergence, Panpsychism, and Deep Ecology
9. Aristotle and Whitehead: Emergence, Process and the Importance of Irrelevance, Lawrence Cahoone
10. Beyond Emergentism, David E. Conner
11. Whitehead's Panpsychism and Deep Ecology, Leemon B. McHenry
Part Four
12. Transcendence, Immanence, and Anthropocentrism, Donald A. Crosby
13. Sacra Natura: Discerning the Immanent Sacred, Jerome A. Stone
14. Wisdom in Ancient and Contemporary Naturalism, Karl E. Peters
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