Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The essay's task is to understand whether we -you, our trio and the rest of us -are an integrated part of Nature, a force of Nature, in the way we take hurricanes, flowers and dogs to be each fully a Nature-product.It is a commonplace in epistemology, metaphysics, action theory and ethics to assert (but more often, presuppose) that we are not just another Natureproduct.We are absolutely "special," an exception, one of a kind.If this much is not asserted directly, the matter is put forward in the form of a paralyzing disjunction, a painful dilemma:The Man-in-Nature Dilemma: Either one is a Nature-uniformist but then a human-reductionist or if one is to escape human reductionism, one must make us a Nature-transcendent agency.
Source: Philosophical Perspectives
Authors: Mandel Cabrera, Sarah Coolidge, Joseph Almog
Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, Auburn University
Language: English
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1567569398