Clare Palmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Palmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmer |
| SIGNATURE | PALMER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9098-5330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Geoengineering and Animal Ethics
Negative effects of anthropogenic climate change are accelerating. The threat climate change poses has prompted research into radical technological responses, including forms of solar radiation management (SRM). While there has been some consideration of the ethical challenges SRM technologies present, to date, these have almost exclusively concerned humans. Here, we take one leading form of SRM, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), and examine…
Gene Drives and Island Rodent Eradications
Proposals to eradicate rodents threatening native seabird populations on islands using tools including poisons and—potentially—gene drives are becoming increasingly common. Focusing on the case of Gough Island, we analyze such proposals from two ethical perspectives—the value of the lives and welfare of individuals, and the conservation value of saving populations. We argue that from many ethical positions, and for both welfare and conservation r…
Hybrid theories, psychological plausibility, and the human/animal divide
Shooting pheasants for sport
People hunt and kill animals for sport in many parts of the world. This raises many issues, some of which were brought to the fore when a lion Panthera leo , nicknamed Cecil, was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in 2015. Cecil's death led to an unprecedented public reaction in Europe and the USA, and a debate in which opponents and supporters of sport hunting advanced different types of argument based on, inter alia, conservation, animal wel…
Social dynamics of values, taboos and perceived threats around sacred groves in Kurdistan, Iran
Sacred groves are important for the conservation of biodiversity in the Middle East, as more formal approaches to protected areas have often failed in this global biodiversity hotspot. This study aims to identify the most important social values, taboos and perceived threats around sacred groves in the Kurdistan province of Iran. We test whether values, taboos and perceived threats are lost in transmission across generations, with increased urban…
Convergence science in the Anthropocene
Rapidly changing ecological and social systems currently pose significant societal challenges. Navigating the complexity of social‐ecological change requires approaches able to cope with, and potentially solve, both foreseen and unforeseen societal challenges. The emergent field of convergence addresses the intricacies of such challenges, and is thus relevant to a broad range of interdisciplinary issues. This paper suggests a way to conceptualize…
Elephants as refugees
Habitat loss and climate change are displacing animals at alarming rates. In response, authors in the humanities and the sciences have described animals rhetorically as ‘refugees’. Such a description implies a strong call to action. However, the term ‘refugee’ may serve as more than mere rhetoric, indicating in a more literal way the response most proper to some persecuted, traumatized and displaced animals, and prioritizing those animals. We tes…
Beyond Castration and Culling
Introduction to the Special Edition on Engineering and Animal Ethics
Animal Rights
“Taming the Wild Profusion of Existing Things”? A Study of Foucault, Power, and Human/Animal Relationships
Against the View That We Are Normally Required to Assist Wild Animals
In this brief paper, I will defend the position that while sentient animals are morally considerable, we are not normally morally required to assist suffering wild animals, though this does not mean that it is ethically impermissible to do so. I will argue that this position can be defended without denying that we have obligations to assist distant suffering humans, and that it need not rely on the claim that there is something wrong with interve…
Response to “Vulnerability, Dependence, and Special Obligations to Domesticated Animals” by Elijah Weber
Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World
Three Questions on Climate Change
Climate change will have highly significant and largely negative effects on human societies into the foreseeable future, effects that are already generating ethical and policy dilemmas of unprecedented scope, scale, and complexity. One important group of ethical and policy issues raised here concerns what I call environmental values. By this I do not mean the impact that climate change will have on the environment as a valuable human resource, no…
Art for the Nation. The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World
Lady Eastlake (1809–93) would have been utterly horrified to find her face gazing out from the front cover of this volume, with her beloved Sir Charles relegated unceremoniously to the rear. When her husband was awarded his honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford in 1853, she was acutely embarrassed by the Public Orator’s reference to his ‘most famous wife’, deeming it inappropriate for there to be any mention of herself in the context of …
Companion Cats as Co-Citizens? Comments on Sue Donaldson ’ s and Will Kymlicka ’ s Zoopolis
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Apprivoiser la profusion sauvage des choses existantes
Inconvenient Desires
Influential parts of the veterinary profession, and notably the American Veterinary Medicine Association, are promoting the routine neutering of cats and dogs that will not be used for breeding purposes. However, this view is not universally held, even among representatives of the veterinary profession. In particular, some veterinary associations in Europe defend the view that when reproduction is not an issue, then neutering, particularly of dog…
Animal Disenhancement and the Non-Identity Problem
Place-Historical Narratives
Environmental values – By John O'Neill, Alan Holland and Andrew Light
Environmental Values - By John O'Neill, Alan Holland and Andrew Light
The Future of Graduate Education in Environmental Philosophy/Ethics
The Future of Graduate Education in Environmental Philosophy/Ethics Clare Palmer (bio) In this brief paper, I focus on a specific area of the future of environmental philosophy and ethics (EP): graduate education. One way in which EP has substantially expanded in the past two decades is in the provision of graduate education, with a group of specialist Masters programs; [End Page 136] a new PhD program at University of North Texas—University of T…
Landscape and value in the work of alfred wainwright (1907 – 1991)
Alfred Wainwright was arguably the best known British guidebook writer of the 20th century, and his work has been highly influential in promoting and directing fell-walking in northern Britain, in particular in the English Lake District. His work has, however, received little critical attention. This paper represents an initial attempt to undertake such a study. We examine Wainwright's work through the lens of the landscape values and aesthetics …
Taming the Wild Profusion of Existing Things
Colonization, urbanization, and animals
Urbanization and development of green spaces is continuing worldwide. Such development frequently engulfs the habitats of native animals, with a variety of effects on their existence, location and ways of living. This paper attempts to theorize about some of these effects, drawing on aspects of Foucault's discussions of power and using a metaphor of human colonization, where colonization is understood as an "ongoing process of dispossession, nego…
Animal Disenhancement and the Non-Identity Problem
Placing Animals in Urban Environmental Ethics
Christianity, Englishness and the southern English countryside
This paper explores the relationships between Christianity, Englishness, and ideas about the southern English landscape in the writings of the 1930s and 1940s rural commentator, H.J. Massingham. The paper begins by looking in general terms at the conjunction of religious and national identities in the context of national landscapes before moving on to consider in more detail one particular instance of this in the writing of H.J. Massingham. Massi…
Place-Historical Narratives
Inconvenient Desires
Influential parts of the veterinary profession, and notably the American Veterinary Medicine Association, are promoting the routine neutering of cats and dogs that will not be used for breeding purposes. However, this view is not universally held, even among representatives of the veterinary profession. In particular, some veterinary associations in Europe defend the view that when reproduction is not an issue, then neutering, particularly of dog…
Landscape and value in the work of alfred wainwright (1907 – 1991)
Alfred Wainwright was arguably the best known British guidebook writer of the 20th century, and his work has been highly influential in promoting and directing fell-walking in northern Britain, in particular in the English Lake District. His work has, however, received little critical attention. This paper represents an initial attempt to undertake such a study. We examine Wainwright's work through the lens of the landscape values and aesthetics …
The Idea of the Domesticated Animal Contract
Some recent works have suggested that the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals might be described as contractual. This paper explores how the idea of such an animal contract might relate to key characteristics of social contract theory, in particular to issues of the change in state from ‘nature’ to ‘culture'; to free consent and irrevocability; and to the benefits and losses to animals which might follow from such a contrac…
Identity, Community and the Natural Environment
Alfred North Whitehead's and Charles Hartshorne's process thinking presents a complex and sophisticated metaphysical underpinning for a theory of self and self-identity. Their construction of the self has significant implications for understanding of the (human) community and the natural environment. Process thinking, I argue, undercuts the idea of self unity; of self-continuity over time; and of self-differentiation from the world. When combined…
Religion in the Making? Animality, Savagery, and Civilization in the Work of A. N. Whitehead
Constructions of the animal and animality are often pivotal to religious discourses. Such constructions create the possibility of identifying and valuing what is "human" as opposed to the "animal" and also of distinguishing human beliefs and behaviors that can be characterized (and often disparaged) as being animal from those that are "truly human." Some discourses also employ the concept of savagery as a bridge between the human and the animal, …
Taming the Wild Profusion of Existing Things
Animals in Christian Ethics
In comparison with the recent growth in writing in environmental theology and ethics, there has been relatively little published in current Christian ethics that specifically addresses human–animal relations. The writer usually cited in this context is Andrew Linzey, who makes a case for animal rights. In this paper, I discuss difficulties with key elements of Linzey’s rights position and with his representation of human–animal power relations. I…
Philosophical Dialogues
Christianity, Englishness and the southern English countryside
This paper explores the relationships between Christianity, Englishness, and ideas about the southern English landscape in the writings of the 1930s and 1940s rural commentator, H.J. Massingham. The paper begins by looking in general terms at the conjunction of religious and national identities in the context of national landscapes before moving on to consider in more detail one particular instance of this in the writing of H.J. Massingham. Massi…
Placing Animals in Urban Environmental Ethics
Colonization, urbanization, and animals
Urbanization and development of green spaces is continuing worldwide. Such development frequently engulfs the habitats of native animals, with a variety of effects on their existence, location and ways of living. This paper attempts to theorize about some of these effects, drawing on aspects of Foucault's discussions of power and using a metaphor of human colonization, where colonization is understood as an "ongoing process of dispossession, nego…
Respect for nature’ in the earth charter
This paper explores the idea of ‘respect for nature’ in the Earth Charter. It maintains that the Earth Charter proposes a broadly holistic environmental ethic where, in situations of conflict, species are given ethical priority over the lives of individual sentient organisms. The paper considers policy implications of this perspective, looking by means of example at the current European environmental policy dispute about the ruddy and white‐heade…
Introduction To Worldviews
Judaism and Environmental Ethics
on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that can hardly claim to represent this vibrant period.Only the first two essays by Florian Krobb, who analyses in a succinct manner the depiction of Jews in the literature of the 1890s and Colin Walker's comparison of two literary anthologies from the mid-nineteenth century and the post-war period, provide the sense of a longer chronological perspective.For the post-war period, Jurek Becker is…
Teaching Environmental Ethics
This collection explores a wide variety of questions, both of a theoretical and a practical nature, raised by teaching environmental ethics. The essays consider general issues, such as the place of environmental advocacy in the environmental ethics classroom; using outdoor environments to prompt reflection on environmental ethics; and handling student responses, such as pessimism that may emerge from teaching environmental ethics. The essays also…
The Future of Graduate Education in Environmental Philosophy/Ethics
The Future of Graduate Education in Environmental Philosophy/Ethics Clare Palmer (bio) In this brief paper, I focus on a specific area of the future of environmental philosophy and ethics (EP): graduate education. One way in which EP has substantially expanded in the past two decades is in the provision of graduate education, with a group of specialist Masters programs; [End Page 136] a new PhD program at University of North Texas—University of T…
Landscape and value in the work of alfred wainwright (1907 – 1991)
Alfred Wainwright was arguably the best known British guidebook writer of the 20th century, and his work has been highly influential in promoting and directing fell-walking in northern Britain, in particular in the English Lake District. His work has, however, received little critical attention. This paper represents an initial attempt to undertake such a study. We examine Wainwright's work through the lens of the landscape values and aesthetics …
Environmental Values - By John O'Neill, Alan Holland and Andrew Light
Environmental values – By John O'Neill, Alan Holland and Andrew Light
Animal Disenhancement and the Non-Identity Problem
Place-Historical Narratives
Apprivoiser la profusion sauvage des choses existantes
Inconvenient Desires
Influential parts of the veterinary profession, and notably the American Veterinary Medicine Association, are promoting the routine neutering of cats and dogs that will not be used for breeding purposes. However, this view is not universally held, even among representatives of the veterinary profession. In particular, some veterinary associations in Europe defend the view that when reproduction is not an issue, then neutering, particularly of dog…
Art for the Nation. The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World
Lady Eastlake (1809–93) would have been utterly horrified to find her face gazing out from the front cover of this volume, with her beloved Sir Charles relegated unceremoniously to the rear. When her husband was awarded his honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford in 1853, she was acutely embarrassed by the Public Orator’s reference to his ‘most famous wife’, deeming it inappropriate for there to be any mention of herself in the context of …
Companion Cats as Co-Citizens? Comments on Sue Donaldson ’ s and Will Kymlicka ’ s Zoopolis
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World
Three Questions on Climate Change
Climate change will have highly significant and largely negative effects on human societies into the foreseeable future, effects that are already generating ethical and policy dilemmas of unprecedented scope, scale, and complexity. One important group of ethical and policy issues raised here concerns what I call environmental values. By this I do not mean the impact that climate change will have on the environment as a valuable human resource, no…
Sociology (20 works) · Environmental ethics (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Biology (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (11 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works)