This book is an introduction to and commentary on Alfred North Whitehead's philosophical system. Kraus (philosophy, Fordham) organizes the book so that each chapter corresponds directly with a chapter
"Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relationship w
The author offers a cultural critique of the Western view of nature, drawing on works by Plato, Lao-Tzu, and Spinoza, and Whitehead, in order to construct a set of concrete measures to estimate the va
Written in the form of stories and suffused with a reverence for the earth, a collection of meditations explores the mysteries of such subjects as bees, porcupines, caves, and the myths and rituals of
Argues that the tradition of critical theory has had significant problems dealing with the concept of nature and that their solutions require taking seriously the idea of nature as socially constructe
This powerful book provides the first comprehensive overview of the intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics -
In this fascinating and accessible book, physicist Victor J. Stenger guides the lay reader through the key developments of quantum mechanics and the debate over its apparent paradoxes. In the process
In Inhabiting the Earth Foltz undertakes the first sustained analysis of how Heidegger's thought can contribute to environmental ethics and to the more broadly conceived field of environmental philoso
'This is an excellent book. It addresses what, in both conceptual and political terms, is arguably the most important source of tension and confusion in current arguments about the environment, namely
Explores the parallels among different cultures in terms of how they perceive nature, and argues that there is unity between people as they celebrate nature
Plaass's treatise stood at the beginning of a renewed wave of scholarship regarding Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (MF). Plaass argues that the MF represents an integral step
Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's preeminent biologists, has revolutionized scientific thinking with his vision of a living, developing universe--one with its own inherent memory. In The Rebirth of
This is the first book-length treatment of the metaphysical foundations of ecological ethics. The author seeks to provide a metaphysical illumination of the fundamental ecological intuitions that we a
Argues that Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) and Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929) are aligned in opposing many elements of traditional Western philosophy and exhibit sim
This book reconstructs the theories of matter and space of the mutakallimun of the tenth and eleventh centuries AD. It uses texts which have only recently become available.The book presents material w
