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animals and environment

I am mainly interested in our moral relations with animals, misanthropy and environmental thought, nature and Buddhist and Chinese philosophies, and philosophy of gardens.


  • A chapter on animals and virtues for a collection edited by Nancy Snow and Carlo Alvaro.*
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  • A paper on carnism and vices.
 
  • ‘Broadening our View of the Beasts: Mary Midgley on Myopia, Myths, and Why Animals Matter’, Ellie Robson (ed.) Midgley on Moral and Meta-Philosophy (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan), forthcoming.

  • ‘Gardens of Refuge, Innocence, and Toil’, Yue Zhuang, Alasdair Forbes, and Michael Charlesworth (eds.) The Garden Refuge of Asia and Europe: Paradigms for Dwelling in a Torn World (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), 129-142.*

  • Review of David E. Cooper, Animals and Misanthropy, Philosophy 98.3 (2023): 407-411.
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  • ‘Gardens and the Good Life in Confucianism and Daoism’, Laura D’Olimpio, Panos Paris, Aidan Thompson (eds.), Educating Character Through the Arts (London: Routledge, 2022), 125-139.*
 
  • 'Misanthropy and the Hatred of Humankind', Noell Birondo (ed.) The Moral Psychology of Hatred (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).* 
    • ​This paper discusses eco-misanthropy and has a case study of the EarthFirst! ecological group.
 
  • ‘Shénnóng and the Agriculturalist School’, Daily Philosophy, 22 April 2022.
    • Shénnóng​ were the 'School of the Tillers' or the Agriculturalist school.
 
  • ‘Gardens of Refuge’, Daily Philosophy, 4 October 2021.
    • ​This piece discusses Chinese philosophy of gardens.
 
  • 'Animals, Misanthropy, and Humanity', Journal of Animal Ethics 10.1 (2020): 66–72.
    • ​Essay review of David E. Cooper, Animals and Misanthropy (2018).​
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  • ‘Nature, Mystery, and Morality: A Daoist View’, Religious Studies 51.2 (2015): 165-181.
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  • ‘Is Naturalism Bleak?’, Environmental Values, 22.6 (2013): 689-702. 
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  • Events
    • Desire Workshop
    • EPIC JANUARY 2025
    • CTPR 1
    • CHP Jan 2025
    • Pessimism, Nihilism, and Misanthropy
    • Pain, Meaning, Mental Health, and Self
    • Philosophy of Psychiatry
    • Mind, Mental Health, and Epistemic Injustice
    • Transhumanism
    • Narrative, Mental Health, and Experiences of Adversity
    • Global Philosophy of Religions
    • Ancient Philosophy
    • VICES OF THE MND >
      • Animals and Environment >
        • Ethics and Exemplarism
        • Epistemic Vices
        • Feyerabend
        • Metaphilosophy
        • Mary Midgley
        • Philosophy of Education
        • Philosophy of Science
        • 20th Century Austro-German Philosophy
        • Scientism
        • Epistemic virtues
        • Philosophy of Religion and the Spiritual Life
        • Philosophy of Illness and Healthcare
        • Chinese philosophy
        • Publications (by date)
        • Feminist Philosophy
        • Charles Fort
        • Epistemology
        • Phenomenology
        • Misanthropy
        • Epistemic injustice
        • Social and institutional epistemology
        • Buddhist philosophy
        • Terrorism
        • Aesthetics
      • Epistemic Virtues and Vices in a Non-Ideal World
      • Epistemic Vices: Individual and Collective
      • Civic Vices
      • Pessimism, Nihilism, and Misanthropy
      • MHMHI
      • Ritual and Practice in Chinese Philosophy
      • Civic Virtues
      • JUST PHILOSOPHY 3
      • History of Philosophy >
        • Midgleyfest
        • Buddhist Philosophy
  • Teaching
  • openday
  • Craig HoD
  • schools
  • New Page
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  • Animals, Ethics, and Ideology