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Ecological Reconstruction: Pragmatism and the More-Than-Human Community
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Bower, Matthew Scott
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2010, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, Philosophy.
Abstract
Ecological reconstruction challenges the historical chasm between culture and nature by using the normative implications of ecology to assert a primacy of relations in experience. Drawing upon the framework of John Dewey and classical American Pragmatism, I sketch out an experimental method for thinking about environmental philosophy that follows this reconstruction, moving beyond both applied ethics and dogmatic values. Central to this move is the possibility of opening up ecotonal spaces, literal and theoretical cites of intensified interaction between cultural and natural systems. These spaces furnish reconstruction with the experiences necessary to generate new concepts that set human communities on the course towards greater ecological attentiveness.
Committee
James Campbell, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Ammon Allred, Dr. (Committee Member)
Ashley Pryor, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
87 p.
Subject Headings
Philosophy
Keywords
environmental philosophy
;
philosophy
;
ecology
;
pragmatism
;
american philosophy
;
reconstruction
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John Dewey
;
ecological reconstruction
;
more-than-human
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Bower, M. S. (2010).
Ecological Reconstruction: Pragmatism and the More-Than-Human Community
[Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271349036
APA Style (7th edition)
Bower, Matthew.
Ecological Reconstruction: Pragmatism and the More-Than-Human Community.
2010. University of Toledo, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271349036.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Bower, Matthew. "Ecological Reconstruction: Pragmatism and the More-Than-Human Community." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271349036
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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