John Nolt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1530399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Nolt |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Nolt |
| SIGNATURE | NOLT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8177-1605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward Policy-Relevant Conceptions of the Welfare of Life on Earth
There are extensive literatures on two kinds of non-anthropocentric values: animal welfare and such environmental goods as biodiversity and ecosystem integrity. These values are also widely recognized and have influenced public policy. But there is no generally accepted overarching conception of the welfare of life on Earth. Such conceptions are described here, their potential utility is explained, and various objections and difficulties are addr…
Nonanthropocentric climate ethics
Anthropogenic climate change poses increasingly severe long‐term threats to living things worldwide. It may even contribute to a mass extinction that would leave biodiversity depleted for millions of years—quite possibly longer than the duration of the human species. Such effects are obviously of ethical concern, but because traditional ethical theories have focused on the relatively short‐term interests of human beings, they offer little guidanc…
Sustainability by Leslie Paul Thiele
Environmental Ethics for the Long Term
Broad in scope, this introduction to environmental ethics considers both contemporary issues and the extent of humanity’s responsibility for distant future life. John Nolt, a logician and environmental ethicist, interweaves contemporary science, logical analysis, and ethical theory into the story of the expansion of ethics beyond the human species and into the far future. Informed by contemporary environmental science, the book deduces concrete p…
Nonanthropocentric climate ethics
Anthropogenic climate change may contribute to a mass extinction that would leave biodiversity depleted for millions of years—quite possibly longer than the duration of the human species. Such effects are arguably of ethical concern, but because established ethical theories are anthropocentric—that is, focused on the relatively short‐term interests of human beings—they offer no guidance on such vast temporal scales. There has been significant wor…
Healing Appalachia
The Move from Is to Good in Environmental Ethics
Why Nietzsche embraced eternal recurrence
Nietzsche's embrace of the idea of eternal recurrence has long puzzled readers, both because the idea is inherently implausible and because it seems inconsistent with other aspects of his philosophy. This paper offers a novel account of Nietzsche's motives for that embrace—namely that Nietzsche found in eternal recurrence the only possible way to reconcile three potent and apparently conflicting convictions: (1) there are no Hinterwelten (“worlds…
The Move from Good to Ought in Environmental Ethics
The move from good to ought, a premise form found in many justifications of environmental ethics, is itself in need of justification.Of the potential moves from good to ought surveyed, some have considerable promise and others less or none.Those without much promise include extrapolations of obligations based on human goods to nonsentient natural entities, appeals to educated judgment, precautionary arguments, humanistic consequentialist argument…
Mathematical Intuition
Expression and Emotion
Journal Article EXPRESSION AND EMOTION Get access John Nolt John Nolt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 21, Issue 2, SPRING 1981, Pages 139–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/21.2.139 Published: 01 February 1981
The Move from Is to Good in Environmental Ethics
Nonanthropocentric climate ethics
Anthropogenic climate change may contribute to a mass extinction that would leave biodiversity depleted for millions of years—quite possibly longer than the duration of the human species. Such effects are arguably of ethical concern, but because established ethical theories are anthropocentric—that is, focused on the relatively short‐term interests of human beings—they offer no guidance on such vast temporal scales. There has been significant wor…
The Move from Good to Ought in Environmental Ethics
The move from good to ought, a premise form found in many justifications of environmental ethics, is itself in need of justification.Of the potential moves from good to ought surveyed, some have considerable promise and others less or none.Those without much promise include extrapolations of obligations based on human goods to nonsentient natural entities, appeals to educated judgment, precautionary arguments, humanistic consequentialist argument…
Expression and Emotion
Journal Article EXPRESSION AND EMOTION Get access John Nolt John Nolt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 21, Issue 2, SPRING 1981, Pages 139–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/21.2.139 Published: 01 February 1981
Mathematical Intuition
Expression and Emotion
Journal Article EXPRESSION AND EMOTION Get access John Nolt John Nolt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 21, Issue 2, SPRING 1981, Pages 139–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/21.2.139 Published: 01 February 1981
Mathematical Intuition
The Move from Good to Ought in Environmental Ethics
The move from good to ought, a premise form found in many justifications of environmental ethics, is itself in need of justification.Of the potential moves from good to ought surveyed, some have considerable promise and others less or none.Those without much promise include extrapolations of obligations based on human goods to nonsentient natural entities, appeals to educated judgment, precautionary arguments, humanistic consequentialist argument…
Why Nietzsche embraced eternal recurrence
Nietzsche's embrace of the idea of eternal recurrence has long puzzled readers, both because the idea is inherently implausible and because it seems inconsistent with other aspects of his philosophy. This paper offers a novel account of Nietzsche's motives for that embrace—namely that Nietzsche found in eternal recurrence the only possible way to reconcile three potent and apparently conflicting convictions: (1) there are no Hinterwelten (“worlds…
The Move from Is to Good in Environmental Ethics
Healing Appalachia
Nonanthropocentric climate ethics
Anthropogenic climate change may contribute to a mass extinction that would leave biodiversity depleted for millions of years—quite possibly longer than the duration of the human species. Such effects are arguably of ethical concern, but because established ethical theories are anthropocentric—that is, focused on the relatively short‐term interests of human beings—they offer no guidance on such vast temporal scales. There has been significant wor…
Environmental Ethics for the Long Term
Broad in scope, this introduction to environmental ethics considers both contemporary issues and the extent of humanity’s responsibility for distant future life. John Nolt, a logician and environmental ethicist, interweaves contemporary science, logical analysis, and ethical theory into the story of the expansion of ethics beyond the human species and into the far future. Informed by contemporary environmental science, the book deduces concrete p…
Sustainability by Leslie Paul Thiele
Nonanthropocentric climate ethics
Anthropogenic climate change poses increasingly severe long‐term threats to living things worldwide. It may even contribute to a mass extinction that would leave biodiversity depleted for millions of years—quite possibly longer than the duration of the human species. Such effects are obviously of ethical concern, but because traditional ethical theories have focused on the relatively short‐term interests of human beings, they offer little guidanc…
Toward Policy-Relevant Conceptions of the Welfare of Life on Earth
There are extensive literatures on two kinds of non-anthropocentric values: animal welfare and such environmental goods as biodiversity and ecosystem integrity. These values are also widely recognized and have influenced public policy. But there is no generally accepted overarching conception of the welfare of life on Earth. Such conceptions are described here, their potential utility is explained, and various objections and difficulties are addr…
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