The ideal of nature : debates about biotechnology and the environment / edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick.

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Other Authors: Kaebnick, Gregory E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Disposing nature or disposing of it? : reflections on the instruction of nature / Kate Soper
  • In defense of living nature : finding common ground in a medieval tradition / Jean Porter
  • Nature as absence : the logic of nature and culture in social contract theory / Bruce Jennings
  • Human nature without theory / Gregory E. Kaebnick
  • Preserving the distinction between nature and artifact / Eric Katz
  • Why "nature" has no place in environmental philosophy / Steven Vogel
  • The appeal to nature / Bonnie Steinbock
  • Thinking like a mountain : nature, wilderness, and the virtue of humility / Paul Lauritzen
  • He did it on hot dogs and beer : natural excellence in human athletic achievement / David Wasserman
  • Sport, simulation, and EPO / Nicholas Agar
  • Common-sense morality and the idea of nature : what we can learn from thinking about therapy / William A. Galston
  • Rawls, sports, and liberal legitimacy / Thomas H. Murray and Peter Murray.