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Upayā-kauśala as the pragmatic justification of Madhyamaka ethical claims
Madhyamaka Buddhism is typically characterized as a particularly thoroughgoing form of anti-foundationalism. This leads to difficulties when trying to justify knowledge claims as well as ethical claims, especially in the ... -
A defense of Buddhist virtue ethics
In Chapter 1, I describe necessary dimensions of Buddhist ethics. I comment on and argue for the inclusion of the four noble truths, meditation, the four immeasurable virtues, and regulating emotion. In Chapter 2, I establish ... -
The Pragmatic Fulfillment View and evaluations of meaning in life
Susan Wolf developed her well-known Fitting Fulfillment View in the hope of avoiding some of the pitfalls of a purely subjective approach to understanding meaning in life. In doing so, Wolf built in an objective criterion ... -
From Pyrrhonism to Madhyamaka : paradoxical solutions to skeptical problems
Skepticism as a philosophical school of thought is best embodied by Greek Pyrrhonism and Indian Madhyamaka. Between these two schools, however, Pyrrhonism is bogged down on issues that Madhyamaka is not. For Greek Pyrrhonism, ... -
Technology and/or nature : denatured/renatured/engineered/artifacted life?
In our high-tech world, do we live at the end of nature? Is the technosphere replacing the biosphere? Can humans control their genetically inherited Pleistocene appetites in an Anthropocene Epoch? Is experience of the ... -
Preface to "Nature and life: essays on deep ecology and applied ethics" by Md. Munir Hossain Talukder
Professor Md. Munir Hossain Talukder has published a book, Nature and Life: Essays on Deep Ecology and Applied Ethics (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). He is a philosopher on the faculty at ... -
Samtal med den värdefulla naturen : ett studium av miljöetiken hos Knud Løgstrup, Holmes Rolston III och Hans Jonas
This is the English summary section from the book written by Staffan Kvassman about Holmes Rolston (and two others). The book was originally his Swedish doctoral dissertation published in 1999. -
A Gallery of the Templeton Laureates from 1973-2018, including Holmes Rolston
Poster featuring the Templeton Laureates from 1973-2018. -
Terre objective : essais d'éthique environnementale [Book summary]
There are eight essays, featuring Rolston’s arguments about objective value on natural landscapes, and how this is needed, beyond resource values for people, in environmental ethics. -
Leading and misleading metaphors : from organism to Anthropocene
Holmes Rolston presents appreciative and critical remarks at a symposium, After the Death of Nature, held at the University of California, Berkeley, on May 2-3, 2018, celebrating the life and work of Carolyn Merchant, an ... -
Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch
This lecture by Holmes Rolston III was the keynote lecture at a conference, Wild Places, Natural Spaces, the fourteenth annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, at ... -
温柔的使命 : 生態, 信仰, 生活的結合
Article 1: In his sermon preached June 5, 2016, at the Ho-Ping Church in Taipei, Rolston emphasized that, like ancient Israel, all peoples today reside on lands with promise, promised lands. Taiwan was long known as Formosa, ... -
Holmes Rolston III : interview by Theo Horesh
Rolston on how we might more wisely approach the "perfect moral storm" of climate change. Ethicists will watch the worldview, the interpretation, the value choices underlying economic analyses. We are at a hinge point in ... -
Trail log - 2017
Local hikes, Pasqueflowers, Rocky Mountain National Park; Oregon State University, Corvallis, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and hikes there; International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) at Highlands Camp, ... -
Respect for patient autonomy in veterinary medicine : a relational approach
This thesis considers the prospects for including respect for patient autonomy as a value in veterinary medical ethics. Chapter One considers why philosophers have traditionally denied autonomy to animals and why this is ... -
Constructivism and the phenomenology of moral deliberation
In this thesis I claim that constructivism is an attractive positon when it comes to explaining the nature of moral facts. The central tenet of constructivism is that moral facts are a function of what actual (or hypothetical) ... -
Rolston, Holmes, III - CSU 150 interview
Frank Boring interviews Holmes Rolston, III on December 19-20, 2017. Holmes Rolston III interviewed with a focus on his career at Colorado State University. How Rolston arrived at CSU and became a good fit there, a University ... -
Endangered species and biodiversity
Anthropocene enthusiasts assert the dominant human place in nature, conservation policy, and the biosphere, with plans for managing, even re-engineering the planet. This worldview de-emphasizes the goal of protecting nature ... -
I married a "thinker"
Recollections of Holmes Rolston's wife Jane over the decades of her life married to a philosophical "thinker."
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