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Embracing diverse worldviews to share planet Earth
2019
Leading societies toward a more sustainable, equitably shared, and environmentally just future requires elevating and strengthening conversations on the nonmaterial and perhaps unquantifiable values of nonhuman nature to humanity. Debates among conservationists relating to the appropriateness of valuing ecosystems in terms of their human utility have eclipsed the more important and impactful task of expressing conservation concerns in terms that are meaningful to diverse stakeholders. We considered the wide global diversity of perspectives on the biosocial complex-the relationships and interactions between all living species on Earth-and argue that humanity's best chance for effective conse…
Anthropocentrism versus Ecocentrism Revisited: Theoretical Confusions and Practical Conclusions
2013
One of the hardest questions in environmental philosophy is the debate between anthropocentric and ecocentric accounts of value. I argue that a great deal of the disagreement in this debate arises from a) misunderstanding of the concepts used in the debate and b) unfruitful reading of vaguely framed arguments. The conceptual and argumentative analysis of the debate shows that many arguments can be ignored as they either contain conceptual confusion or concern issues that are actually irrelevant to the centrism division. However, there are arguments that maintain their relevance, and these arguments have important consequences on the practical environmental ethics. Hence, contrary to Bryan G…
Itsessään arvokkaan rajoista : itsessään arvokkaasta, ihmiskeskeisyydestä ja ristiriitatilanteista Tom Reganin ja Paul Taylorin ajattelussa
2014
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tarkastella Tom Reganin teoriaa itseisarvoisista olennoista ja tilanteista, joissa itseisarvoista olentoa onkin esimerkiksi hyväksyttävää vahingoittaa. Reganin teoriaa tarkastellaan sekä itseisarvolle asetettujen kriteerien mahdollisen ihmiskeskeisyyden että ristiriitatilanteiden ratkaisukeinojen kautta (ristiriitatilanteella viitataan tilanteeseen, jossa joudumme asettamaan vastakkain esimerkiksi kahden yhtäläisen arvokkaan yksilön yhtäläisen hyvinvoinnin). Reganin teorian vastapainona toimii Paul Taylorin ympäristöeettinen teoria, sillä Reganin eritellessä tietyt karkeat kriteerit "oman elämänsä subjekteiksi" kutsumilleen yksilöille, jotka ovat varmuudella its…