Tyler Veak
Biographic Data
| ID | 102070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler Veak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Veak |
| SIGNATURE | VEAK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liberty University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Democratizing Technology
Democratizing Technology
Environmental History of New England
William Cronon’s Changes in the Land presaged a radical turn in environmental thought. His seminal work dramatically reconstructed our view of precolonial New England. He dismissed entirelythe received history that portrayed precolonial America as an uninhabited pristine wilderness. In the process, he gave Native Americans agency and forever blurred the line between humans and nature. Since Changes , it has become impossible to realistically thin…
Whose Technology? Whose Modernity? Questioning Feenberg's Questioning Technology
Critique of Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology
“Global Environmental Problems Require Global Solutions”
Many Western environmental activist groups and theorists have sounded the call for the Earth’s salvation from the “global environmental crisis.” What is lacking, however, is some reflection on the ramifications of framing the problem globally and on the justifications for particular solutions. This article examines the “ecomessiah” (saviors of the Earth) phenomenon to investigate the impacts of these types of programs. Specifically, we examine th…
J. Baird Callicott'searth insights∗
one the leading authors in the field of environmental ethics, has recently examined non-western attitudes toward nature, and suggested a conception of how these different attitudes might fit under the umbrella of a global environmental ethic.Central to Callicott's effort is his appropriation of what he calls the new "postmodern" sciences.According to Callicott, the postmodern scientific worldview, which is based on the new sciences of relativity …
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“Global Environmental Problems Require Global Solutions”
Many Western environmental activist groups and theorists have sounded the call for the Earth’s salvation from the “global environmental crisis.” What is lacking, however, is some reflection on the ramifications of framing the problem globally and on the justifications for particular solutions. This article examines the “ecomessiah” (saviors of the Earth) phenomenon to investigate the impacts of these types of programs. Specifically, we examine th…
J. Baird Callicott'searth insights∗
one the leading authors in the field of environmental ethics, has recently examined non-western attitudes toward nature, and suggested a conception of how these different attitudes might fit under the umbrella of a global environmental ethic.Central to Callicott's effort is his appropriation of what he calls the new "postmodern" sciences.According to Callicott, the postmodern scientific worldview, which is based on the new sciences of relativity …
Whose Technology? Whose Modernity? Questioning Feenberg's Questioning Technology
Critique of Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology
Environmental History of New England
William Cronon’s Changes in the Land presaged a radical turn in environmental thought. His seminal work dramatically reconstructed our view of precolonial New England. He dismissed entirelythe received history that portrayed precolonial America as an uninhabited pristine wilderness. In the process, he gave Native Americans agency and forever blurred the line between humans and nature. Since Changes , it has become impossible to realistically thin…
Democratizing Technology
Democratizing Technology
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works)