Katie Mcshane
Biographic Data
| ID | 1292126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Mcshane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcshane |
| SIGNATURE | MCSHANE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1380-4273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Basis for Biocentric Equality
Biocentric egalitarianism is the view that all living things share an equal fundamental moral status qua living things. In light of the well-known problems with past philosophical attempts to argue for this position, this paper proposes a way biocentric egalitarian claims might be understood and possibly vindicated. Relying on frameworks developed in recent discussions of the “basis of equality” in human-centered ethics, the paper argues that thi…
Against etiological function accounts of interests
John Basl, The Death of the Ethic of Life
Loving an Unfamiliar World: Dementia, Mental Illness, and Climate Change
If climate change is as bad as many now predict, we may be faced with the problem of how to cope with a natural world that is changing more rapidly than our ability to form emotional attachments can keep pace with. How can we love a natural world that seems so strange and unfamiliar to us? For help in answering this question, I turn to structurally similar problems that we face in our emotional attachments to other people. Using the cases of deme…
Neosentimentalism and Environmental Ethics
Environmental Ethics: An Overview
This essay provides an overview of the field of environmental ethics. I sketch the major debates in the field from its inception in the 1970s to today, explaining both the central tenets of the schools of thought within the field and the arguments that have been given for and against them. I describe the main trends within the field as a whole and review some of the criticisms that have been offered of prevailing views
Virtue and Respect for Nature: Ronald Sandler's Character and Environment
Why Environmental Ethics Shouldn’t Give Up on Intrinsic Value
Recent critics (Andrew Light, Bryan Norton, Anthony Weston, and Bruce Morito, among others) have argued that we should give up talk of intrinsic value in general and that of nature in particular.While earlier theorists might have overestimated the importance of intrinsic value, these recent critics underestimate its importance.Claims about a thing's intrinsic value are claims about the distinctive way in which we have reason to care about that th…
Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature
Ecosystem Health
Ecosystem Health
Why Environmental Ethics Shouldn’t Give Up on Intrinsic Value
Recent critics (Andrew Light, Bryan Norton, Anthony Weston, and Bruce Morito, among others) have argued that we should give up talk of intrinsic value in general and that of nature in particular.While earlier theorists might have overestimated the importance of intrinsic value, these recent critics underestimate its importance.Claims about a thing's intrinsic value are claims about the distinctive way in which we have reason to care about that th…
Against etiological function accounts of interests
Environmental Ethics: An Overview
This essay provides an overview of the field of environmental ethics. I sketch the major debates in the field from its inception in the 1970s to today, explaining both the central tenets of the schools of thought within the field and the arguments that have been given for and against them. I describe the main trends within the field as a whole and review some of the criticisms that have been offered of prevailing views
Neosentimentalism and Environmental Ethics
Ecosystem Health
Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature
Why Environmental Ethics Shouldn’t Give Up on Intrinsic Value
Recent critics (Andrew Light, Bryan Norton, Anthony Weston, and Bruce Morito, among others) have argued that we should give up talk of intrinsic value in general and that of nature in particular.While earlier theorists might have overestimated the importance of intrinsic value, these recent critics underestimate its importance.Claims about a thing's intrinsic value are claims about the distinctive way in which we have reason to care about that th…
Virtue and Respect for Nature: Ronald Sandler's Character and Environment
Environmental Ethics: An Overview
This essay provides an overview of the field of environmental ethics. I sketch the major debates in the field from its inception in the 1970s to today, explaining both the central tenets of the schools of thought within the field and the arguments that have been given for and against them. I describe the main trends within the field as a whole and review some of the criticisms that have been offered of prevailing views
Neosentimentalism and Environmental Ethics
Loving an Unfamiliar World: Dementia, Mental Illness, and Climate Change
If climate change is as bad as many now predict, we may be faced with the problem of how to cope with a natural world that is changing more rapidly than our ability to form emotional attachments can keep pace with. How can we love a natural world that seems so strange and unfamiliar to us? For help in answering this question, I turn to structurally similar problems that we face in our emotional attachments to other people. Using the cases of deme…
John Basl, The Death of the Ethic of Life
Against etiological function accounts of interests
A Basis for Biocentric Equality
Biocentric egalitarianism is the view that all living things share an equal fundamental moral status qua living things. In light of the well-known problems with past philosophical attempts to argue for this position, this paper proposes a way biocentric egalitarian claims might be understood and possibly vindicated. Relying on frameworks developed in recent discussions of the “basis of equality” in human-centered ethics, the paper argues that thi…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Contemporary philosophy (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · General interest (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Applied philosophy (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (3 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (3 works)