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Better Talking Heads: Concerning Fuller "Experience" In Environmental Philosophy, Christina Bovinette
Better Talking Heads: Concerning Fuller "Experience" In Environmental Philosophy, Christina Bovinette
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Through this project, I demonstrate how professional environmental ethics is constrained by, what I call, a rationalist bias and I offer a different approach to environmental questions in the face of this observation. Intellectual life depends on material conditions and our necessary physical ties to Earth. I suggest that an emphasis on our physical connections with the planet can benefit professional environmental ethics. I draw from some feminist understandings to discuss the advantages of a professional environmental ethics that respects and integrates experiences outside of rational deliberation. I attempt to bring my discussion of experience, environmental ethics, and some feminist …