The Natural and the Artefactual: The Implications of Deep Science and Deep Technology for Environmental PhilosophyLexington Books, 1999 - 285 sayfa In this book, philosopher Keekok Lee challenges one of the central assumptions of contemporary environmentalism: that if we could reduce or eliminate pollution we could 'save' the planet without unduly disrupting our modern, industrialized societies. Lee argues instead that the process of modernization, with its attendant emphasis on technological innovation, has fundamentally transformed 'nature' into just another manmade 'artefact.' Ultimately, what needs to be determined is if nature has value above and beyond human considerations, whether aesthetic, spiritual, or biological. This provocative book attempts to reconfigure environmental ethics, positing the existence of two separate ontological categories-the 'natural' and the 'artefactual.' Natural entities, be they organisms or inert matter, are 'morally considerable' because they possess the ontological value of independence, whereas artefacts are created by humans expressly to serve their own interests and ends. |
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Worldviews Modern and Premodern | 11 |
The Old Philosophy and the Old Science | 12 |
The New Science and Its Method | 15 |
The New Philosophy | 22 |
Goals of the New Science | 28 |
Teleology Its Forms and Their Fortunes | 32 |
Notes | 41 |
The Natural the Artefactual and the Technological | 49 |
Homo Faber Artefacts and the Language of Machines | 135 |
Notes | 149 |
Ontology and Axiology | 159 |
Resisting Humean Projectivism | 161 |
Interests and the Intentional Stance | 166 |
Abiotic Nature and Intrinsic Value | 172 |
Intrinsic Value Trajectories and Independent Value | 177 |
Ontological Elimination Dualism and Dyadism | 180 |
Transforming the Natural to Become the Artefactual | 54 |
Modern Technology the Philosophy of Technology and the Philosophy of Science | 62 |
Deep Theories and Their Power of Control | 69 |
Notes | 73 |
Independence Human Design and Artefacticity | 81 |
Different Senses of Nature | 82 |
The End of Nature? | 86 |
Natures Independence | 90 |
The Garden | 93 |
Biotic Artefacts and Their Residual Tele | 95 |
Notes | 97 |
Technology Threats to the Natural | 107 |
Biotechnology and Its Radical Threat to Biotic Nature | 112 |
Future Technology and the Radical Threat to the Natural | 114 |
Homo Faber the Humanization of Nature and the Naturalization of Humanity | 123 |
Ecosystem Health and the HumanNonhuman Ontological Dyadism | 184 |
Axiology and Ontology | 189 |
Anthropogenic and Nonanthropogenic | 194 |
Narcissism and Homo Faber | 201 |
Notes | 203 |
Conclusion | 223 |
Note | 228 |
Nature as Work of Art | 229 |
Notes | 237 |
Is Nature a Mere Social Construct? | 241 |
Notes | 249 |
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