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Holmes Rolston, III is a philosopher and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is best known for his contributions to environmental ethics and the relationship between science and religion. Among other honors, Rolston won the 2003 Templeton Prize, awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace. He gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998. These digital collections include biographical materials, articles, book reviews, lectures, awards, and logs of trails and trips.
A digital copy of Dr. Rolston's Senior Scholars oral history interview can be found in the Society of Senior Scholars Oral History Project collection.
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Item Open Access A chronicle: Prof. Holmes Rolston, III, 2003 Templeton Prize Laureate(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003) Small, Barbara, author; John Templeton Foundation, publisherNew York Press Conference, March 19, 2004, United Nations Church Center -- Presentation of Holmes Rolston by Jack Templeton and Rolston response -- London, Buckingham Palace, May 7, 2003, Prince Philip presents the prize to Rolston -- Rolston press statement and John Polkinghorne response -- Templeton Prize judges and previous laureates.Item Open Access A forest ethic and multivalue forest management: the integrity of forests and of foresters are bound together(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1991) Coufal, James E., author; Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Society of American Foresters, publisherThe Society of American Foresters (SAF) has long had an ethic of using forests to benefit society. Now many foresters, prompted by Aldo Leopold and his land ethic, are wondering if SAF does not need a forest ethic, respecting the integrity of natural systems, to complement its ethic for society. Forests are communities as well as commodities. Forest management ought to expand from an ethical of multiple use to one of protecting multiple values found in forests.Item Open Access A gallery of the Templeton Laureates from 1973-2018, including Holmes Rolston(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Templeton Foundation, photographerPoster featuring the Templeton Laureates from 1973-2018.Item Open Access A hinge point of history(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Trinity University Press, publisherWe live at a change of epochs. We enter a new era: the Anthropocene. From this point on, culture more than nature is the principal determinant of Earth's future. We are passing into a century when this will be increasingly obvious and this puts us at a hinge point of history. For some this is cause for congratulation, the fulfillment of our destiny as a species. For others this is cause for concern. We worried throughout much of the past century that humans would destroy themselves in interhuman conflict. The worry for the next century is that if our present heading is uncorrected, humans may ruin their planet and themselves along with it. Paradoxes and challenges confront and confound us in this new era. Although we congratulate ourselves on our powers, perhaps humans are not well equipped to manage the sorts of global-level problems we face. And yet, this wonderland Earth is a planet with promise. If we are to realize the abundant life for all time, both policy and ethics must enlarge the scope of concern.Item Open Access A managed Earth and the end of nature?(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1999) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; JAI Press, publisherHumans increasingly see themselves as the planetary mangers. Perhaps nature is at an end? Natural history has been overtaken by human engineering. Others seek a revised account by which human activity is, or should be, natural. The ideal of nature, absent humans, ought to be replaced with an ideal in which the human presence is also natural. A postmodern claim is that nature always wears for us a human face. But nature neither is, or ought to be, ended. Humans belong on Earth, but nature ought also be an end in itself.Item Open Access A new environmental ethics: the next millennium for life on Earth - 1st edition (2012) and 2nd edition (2020)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorThe First Edition guaranteed "to put you in your place." Beyond that, the Second Edition asks whether you want to live a "denatured life on a denatured planet."Item Open Access A philosopher gone wild (Karnos)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1993) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Oxford University Press, publisherRolston found that, loving wisdom, he had to quarrel with Socrates, taking a natural turn. Indeed he found that he had to quarrel with the three disciplines he most loved: science, philosophy, and theology. None of them appropriately valued nature, which he had learned to love from the cradle in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and continuing as he became in his early adult years a naturalist in the Southern Appalachians. He became increasingly convinced of the intrinsic values in nature and equally dismayed by environmental degradation there. That led him to become a founder of environmental ethics. No one can really become a philosopher, loving wisdom, without caring for these sources in which we live, move, and have our being, the community of life on Earth.Item Open Access A philosopher gone wild: CSU professor makes peace between God and science — and wins the world's most generous prize(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003-04) Campbell, Greg, interviewer and author; Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, intervieweeDr. Holmes Rolston is interviewed by Greg Campbell in April 2003. Dr. Holmes Rolston will receive the Templeton Prize, valued at more than $1 million, on May 7 in London's Buckingham Palace from Prince Philip. He will use the money to endow a chair in his name at his alma mater, Davidson College in North Carolina, in the fields of science and religion. His studies in philosophy of science, in evolutionary and ecosystem science, and as an accomplished biologist have made Rolston the leading voice for protecting biodiversity — not only out of respect for nature, but also due to religious obligation. He already has carved on his future tombstone this epitaph: "Philosopher Gone Wild." That's his life well-lived.Item Open Access A remarkably free man(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-09-04) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; First Presbyterian Church, producerSermon at First Presbyterian Church, Fort Collins, September 4, 2016. Humans cherish freedom. Americans live in "the land of the free and the home of the brave." College students, on leaving home, are free to do their thing. Many who consider themselves uninterested in religion are keenly interested in being free. Jesus, as recounted in the gospels, is a remarkably free man. Though a Galilean peasant, he moved freely among high and lower levels of social status, quick to be forthright and to cut to the quick in criticism. He revised and transformed both Hebrew and Greek thought, founded a great world faith, and is worshipped by billions of persons. He challenged Herod and the Roman tyranny of his day, also the Hebrew Scriptures and religious authorities. He was little concerned for his own physical needs, health, welfare, or security, though showing great compassion for others in need. He went to his death, afraid, a prisoner, yet freely, under the authority of his divine calling. His followers have in him a model for more genuine human freedom.Item Open Access Aesthetic experience in forests(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Wiley-Blackwell (Firm), publisherForests are aesthetically challenging because of the sense of deep time, experiencing an archetype of creation. Forests are both perennial and dynamic. Appropriate aesthetic encounter requires knowledge of scientific natural history, necessary though not sufficient for intense, multisensory, participatory engagement when persons, immersed in forests, live their aesthetic experiences. Forests, although naturalized, are experienced as sublime, evoking the sense of the sacred. Aesthetic appreciation in forests radically differs from that appropriate for artworks.Item Open Access Aesthetics in the swamps(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2000) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Johns Hopkins University Press, publisherWetlands are misunderstood landscapes, typically experienced negatively as swamps, sloughs, and mires. Understanding wetlands ecology, knowledge of specialized flora there, their unusual adaptations, and their diversity can enrich aesthetic appreciation of these landscapes. Aesthetic experiences include a sense of the primeval, admiration for ingenious and odd solutions to the challenges of wetlands living, of life persisting in the midst of its perpetual perishing.Item Open Access Aesthetics of nature and the sacred(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2005) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Thoemmes Continuum Publishers, publisherConfronting nature one experiences the archetypes of the world. A living landscape couples dynamism with antiquity and demands an order of aesthetic interpretation that one is unlikely to find in art and its artifacts. A visit to wildlands contributes to the human sense of place in space and time, of duration, antiquity, continuity, to the human mystery of being the sole aesthetician in a kaleidoscopic universe. One encounters "the types and symbols of Eternity" (Wordsworth). We reach the sense of the sublime. When beauty transforms into the sublime, the aesthetic is elevated into the numinous. Perhaps the supernatural is gone, but the natural can be supercharged with mystery. If anything at all on Earth is sacred, it must be this enthralling creativity that characterizes our home planet. Here an appropriate aesthetics becomes spiritually demanding.Item Open Access After preservation? Dynamic nature in the Anthropocene(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; University of Chicago Press, publisherWe have entered the first century in 45 million centuries of life on Earth in which one species can jeopardize the planet's future. Since Galileo, Earth seemed a minor planet, lost in the stars. Since Darwin, humans have come late and last on this lonely planet. Today, on our home planet at least, we are putting these once de-centered humans back at the center. This is the Anthropocene epoch, and this high profile discourse comes to showcase the expanding human empire. Humans will manage the planet. We need to figure, perhaps re-figure conservation in this novel future in which we celebrate a new epoch and name it after ourselves.Item Open Access An ecological pope challenges the Anthropocene Epoch(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Process Century Press, publisherIn his recent encyclical Laudatio si', On Care for our Common Home, Pope Francis is a biocentric holist, advocating "integral ecology." He fully recognizes that humans need nature as natural resources, but he limits such use with a recognition of intrinsic value in God's created order. He laments biodiversity losses, celebrating all creatures great and small. He is scientifically informed, and in result asks for a transformed world view, limiting excessive technology and taming rapacious capitalism, simultaneously conserving nature and opening up opportunity for impoverished peoples. The encyclical is about environment and equally a socio-economic critique. Those concerned with environmental ethics can welcome a new and powerful voice for saving the Earth.Item Open Access An interview with Holmes Rolston III - Chinese(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Libenson, Sam, interviewer; Wong, Justin, interviewer; Ma, Chenghui, translatorHolmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature. Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here ‒ a wonderland. Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know. Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.Item Open Access An interview with Holmes Rolston III - English(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Libenson, Sam, interviewer; Wong, Justin, interviewerHolmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature. Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here ‒ a wonderland. Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know. Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.Item Open Access Animal welfare and environmental ethics(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorBernard Rollin's main concerns are domestic and research animals. Tens of thousands of such animals have endured less suffering as a result of Rollin's seminal work. Animals are of moral concern because they have conscious interests, or telos. Rollin's use of telos is plausible though more specialized than usual. He develops an account of animal rights and has been influential in shaping legislation and regulations. Rollin has theoretical or in-principle ideals that are unlikely to be accepted as current practice. In result he adopts more moderate moral principles. In the fair-contract, husbandry dimension of agriculture, the farmer takes care of the cows and pigs, recognizing their rights, and then eats them, or sells them to be eaten. Environmental ethicists add that there are considerations in a more complex ethic, predation for example, that cannot be reached by conferring rights on them. Rollin has effectively analyzed the bioscience that confirms animal minds. He reaches a strange combination of kinship and chasm separating human and animal minds. Rollin's account of any deeper environmental ethics for a biospheric Earth is unsatisfactory, any respect for life beyond respect for sentience, especially his concepts of endangered species.Item Open Access Animals: beasts present in flesh & blood(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998-10-09) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerThe young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. Psalm 104.21. 1. Born Wild and Free. 2. Beauty in Motion. 3. Predators and Prey. 4. Humans: Aesthetic Animals.Item Open Access Annotated bibliography(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Gale, publisherAnnotated Bibliography with sections: 1. Reference works 2. Systematic overviews 3. Collected essays of a single author 4. Anthology overviews, collected essays by multiple authors, textbooks 5. Case Studies 6. Animals and environmental ethics 7. Biodiversity, wilderness, restoration, aesthetics 8. Environmental justice, environmental virtue ethics 9. Religion and nature 10. Ecofeminism 11. Sustainability, future generations 12. Global environmental ethics, climate change.Item Open Access Antarctica(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Gale, publisherAntarctica, the seventh continent, is anomalous, compared with the six inhabited continents. The usual concerns of environmental ethics on other continents fail without sustainable development, or ecosystems for a "land ethic," or even familiar terrestrial fauna and flora. A political Antarctic regime developed policy with a deepening ethical sensitivity over the second half of the last century remarkably exemplified in the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Madrid Protocol) at the end of the century, protecting "the intrinsic value of Antarctica," though puzzles remain about how to value Antarctica.