Presents a collection of the thoughts of some of the most forward-looking scholars from the Earth sciences, philosophy and public policy on the topic of Earth sciences changing role in society. Softcover. DLC: Earth sciences--Philosophy.

Earth Matters: The Earth Sciences, Philosophy, and the Claims of Community

Science & Math

Frodeman, Robert

Earth Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally. Rather than improving our lives, science and technology today increasingly leave us debilitated and infantilized. It is time to restrain the runaway ambitions of technoscientific knowledge.   The transhumanist goal of human enhancement encapsulates a range of dangerous social pathologies. Like transhumanism itself, these pathologies are rooted in, or in reaction to, the ethos of ‘more’. It’s a cultural love affair with excess, which is prompted by the libertarian standards of our cultural productions. But the attempt to live at the speed of an electron is destined for failure.   In response, the author offers a naturalistic account of human flourishing where we attend to the natural rhythms of life. The interdisciplinary orientation of Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science makes it relevant to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including social and political philosophy, philosophy of technology, science and technology studies, environmental studies, and public policy.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences (Environ Philosophy Ethics)

Seeks to redraw the boundaries between the fields of geology and environmental philosophy.

Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground Between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)

State Univ of New York Pr

Seeks to redraw the boundaries between the fields of geology and environmental philosophy. Using a unified vision of geology, consisting of equal parts geo-poetry, geo-politics, geo-theology, and geo-science, Geo-Logic redraws the boundaries between philosophy and the earth sciences. Although each discipline makes crucial contributions to contemporary environmental concerns, neither will fulfill its potential until it transforms itself by engaging the other. This book offers examples of how to relate environmental philosophy to science, public policy, and real world problems, and shows what is epistemologically distinctive about scientific work and how to respond to the cultural dynamics that are pulling these issues into the public sphere. Frodeman advocates humanizing the earth sciences and bringing philosophy into the field.

State University of New York Press

Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy (Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society)

Professional philosophy has strayed so far from its roots that Socrates wouldn’t stand a chance of landing tenure in most departments today. After all, he spent his time talking with people from all walks of life rather than being buried in the secondary literature and polishing arguments for peer-reviewed journals. Yet somehow this hypertrophy styles itself ‘real’ philosophy. Socrates Tenured diagnoses the pathologies of contemporary philosophy and shows how the field can be revitalized. The first part of the book sketches the crisis facing philosophy in a neoliberal age and traces its roots back to the 20th-century move to turn philosophy into an academic discipline. In the second part the authors look at various attempts from applied ethics to their own brand of ‘field philosophy’ to confront the resulting problems of insularity and societal irrelevance. Part three connects this evaluation of philosophy with wider discussions in the politics of knowledge about the impacts of research on society. The final chapters consider both what impacts philosophy might have and what a philosophy of impact might look like.

Briggle, Adam

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This book diagnoses a crisis facing philosophy – and the humanities more broadly – and sketches a path toward institutionalizing socially engaged approaches to philosophical research.

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Earth Matters: The Earth Sciences, Philosophy, and the Claims of Community

Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground Between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)

Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences (Environ Philosophy Ethics)

Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy (Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society)

Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy (Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society)