Ben A Minteer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4306786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben A Minteer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben A |
| FAMILY NAME | Minteer |
| SIGNATURE | MINTEER B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reconsidering anthropomorphism for human interactions with zoo-housed animals
Zoos have long employed anthropomorphic perspectives in presenting and interpreting their animals. And yet, there are benefits and risks when analogizing nonhuman animal motivation and behavior to human motivation and behavior and calling them equivalent. In this review, we briefly explore the debate over anthropomorphism in animal behavior literature and then discuss its application to the zoo setting. Though the use of anthropomorphism to under…
Wild Visions
Wild Visions
Protection of wetlands as a strategy for reducing the spread of avian influenza from migratory waterfowl
A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton
Economic growth, urbanization, globalization, and the risks of emerging infectious diseases in China
The Ark and Beyond
This chapter re-examines debates over the use of cloning to preserve endangered animals in zoos, which is supplemented by an analysis of the debates regarding de-extinction. Where previous research has used nature and culture as a lens for parsing the debates over cloning, reproduction is here used as an alternative analytic lens. Different ideas about reproduction are argued to be central to debates over whether or not techniques like cloning sh…
Judith A. Layzer
Nature in Common?
Landscape of Reform
Pragmatism, Piety, and Environmental Ethics
The rise of pragmatism in environmental ethics in the 1990s was driven by several factors, including dissatisfaction with the field's dominant nonanthropocentrism and the desire to increase the political and policy influence of environmental ethics. Yet despite an emphasis on human experience as the foundation of environmental values and action, environmental pragmatists have paid little attention to the religious dimensions of human-nature inter…
Biocentric Farming
The Future of Environmental Philosophy
Robert Frodeman, Dale Jamieson, J. Baird Callicott, Stephen M. Gardiner, Lori Gruen, Dale Jamieson, Irene J. Klaver, Eugene Hargrove, Ben A. Minteer, Bryan Norton, Clare Palmer, Holmes Rolston, III, Ricardo Rozzi, James P. Sterba, William M. Throop, Victoria Davion, Commentary on the Future of Environmental Philosophy, Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall, 2007), pp. 117-150
Conservation or Preservation? A Qualitative Study of the Conceptual Foundations of Natural Resource Management
The Landscape of Reform
A study of the pragmatic roots of American environmentalism—as seen in the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey, Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and Aldo Leopold—and how it can inform a new, civic-minded environmentalism today. InThe Landscape of Reform Ben Minteer offers a fresh and provocative reading of the intellectual foundations of American environmentalism, focusing on the work and legacy of four important conservation and planning thinkers in the f…
An Appraisal of the Critique of Anthropocentrism and Three Lesser Known Themes in Lynn White’s “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis”
Lynn White Jr.’s essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” which first appeared in Science in 1967, has long been a cornerstone in the environmental studies literature. Yet subsequent research in the natural and social sciences, as well as in the environmental humanities, challenges many of White’s key assumptions and claims in this classic article including the uniquely dynamic presence of humans within a stable natural order, the pe…
Environmental Ethics Beyond Principle? The Case for a Pragmatic Contextualism
Wolves and Human Communities
Wilderness and the wise province
Wilderness and the wise province
Benton MacKaye's name is rarely evoked in the fields of environmental history and philosophy. The author of the Appalachian Trail in the early 1920s and a co-founder of the Wilderness Society with Aldo Leopold and Bob Marshall in the 1930s, MacKaye's unique contribution to American environmental thought is seldom recognized. This neglect is particularly egregious in the current debate over the intellectual foundations of the American wilderness i…
Intrinsic Value for Pragmatists
Convergence in Environmental Values
Bryan Norton's convergence hypothesis, which predicts that nonanthropocentric and human-based philosophical positions will actually converge on long-sighted, multi-value environmental policy, has drawn a number of criticisms from within environmental philosophy. In particular, nonanthropocentric theorists like J. Baird Callicott and Laura Westra have rejected the accuracy of Norton's thesis, refusing to believe that his model's contextual appeals…
Convergence in environmental values
Bryan Norton's convergence hypothesis, which predicts that nonan‐thropocentric and human‐based philosophical positions will actually converge on long‐sighted, multi‐value environmental policy, has drawn a number of criticisms from within environmental philosophy. In particular, nonanthropocentric theorists like J. Baird Callicott and Laura Westra have rejected the accuracy of Norton's thesis, refusing to believe that his model's contextual appeal…
Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics
A growing number of contributors to environmental philosophy are beginning to rethink the field’s mission and practice. Noting that the emphasis of protracted conceptual battles over axiology may not get us very far in solving environmental problems, many environmental ethicists have begun to advocate a more pragmatic, pluralistic, and policy-based approach in philosophical discussions about human-nature relationships. In this paper, we argue for…
Environmental Ethics Beyond Principle? The Case for a Pragmatic Contextualism
Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics
A growing number of contributors to environmental philosophy are beginning to rethink the field’s mission and practice. Noting that the emphasis of protracted conceptual battles over axiology may not get us very far in solving environmental problems, many environmental ethicists have begun to advocate a more pragmatic, pluralistic, and policy-based approach in philosophical discussions about human-nature relationships. In this paper, we argue for…
Protection of wetlands as a strategy for reducing the spread of avian influenza from migratory waterfowl
The Ark and Beyond
This chapter re-examines debates over the use of cloning to preserve endangered animals in zoos, which is supplemented by an analysis of the debates regarding de-extinction. Where previous research has used nature and culture as a lens for parsing the debates over cloning, reproduction is here used as an alternative analytic lens. Different ideas about reproduction are argued to be central to debates over whether or not techniques like cloning sh…
Conservation or Preservation? A Qualitative Study of the Conceptual Foundations of Natural Resource Management
Intrinsic Value for Pragmatists
Convergence in Environmental Values
Bryan Norton's convergence hypothesis, which predicts that nonanthropocentric and human-based philosophical positions will actually converge on long-sighted, multi-value environmental policy, has drawn a number of criticisms from within environmental philosophy. In particular, nonanthropocentric theorists like J. Baird Callicott and Laura Westra have rejected the accuracy of Norton's thesis, refusing to believe that his model's contextual appeals…
Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics
A growing number of contributors to environmental philosophy are beginning to rethink the field’s mission and practice. Noting that the emphasis of protracted conceptual battles over axiology may not get us very far in solving environmental problems, many environmental ethicists have begun to advocate a more pragmatic, pluralistic, and policy-based approach in philosophical discussions about human-nature relationships. In this paper, we argue for…
Convergence in Environmental Values
Bryan Norton's convergence hypothesis, which predicts that nonanthropocentric and human-based philosophical positions will actually converge on long-sighted, multi-value environmental policy, has drawn a number of criticisms from within environmental philosophy. In particular, nonanthropocentric theorists like J. Baird Callicott and Laura Westra have rejected the accuracy of Norton's thesis, refusing to believe that his model's contextual appeals…
Convergence in environmental values
Bryan Norton's convergence hypothesis, which predicts that nonan‐thropocentric and human‐based philosophical positions will actually converge on long‐sighted, multi‐value environmental policy, has drawn a number of criticisms from within environmental philosophy. In particular, nonanthropocentric theorists like J. Baird Callicott and Laura Westra have rejected the accuracy of Norton's thesis, refusing to believe that his model's contextual appeal…
Wilderness and the wise province
Wilderness and the wise province
Benton MacKaye's name is rarely evoked in the fields of environmental history and philosophy. The author of the Appalachian Trail in the early 1920s and a co-founder of the Wilderness Society with Aldo Leopold and Bob Marshall in the 1930s, MacKaye's unique contribution to American environmental thought is seldom recognized. This neglect is particularly egregious in the current debate over the intellectual foundations of the American wilderness i…
Intrinsic Value for Pragmatists
Wolves and Human Communities
Environmental Ethics Beyond Principle? The Case for a Pragmatic Contextualism
An Appraisal of the Critique of Anthropocentrism and Three Lesser Known Themes in Lynn White’s “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis”
Lynn White Jr.’s essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” which first appeared in Science in 1967, has long been a cornerstone in the environmental studies literature. Yet subsequent research in the natural and social sciences, as well as in the environmental humanities, challenges many of White’s key assumptions and claims in this classic article including the uniquely dynamic presence of humans within a stable natural order, the pe…
The Landscape of Reform
A study of the pragmatic roots of American environmentalism—as seen in the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey, Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and Aldo Leopold—and how it can inform a new, civic-minded environmentalism today. InThe Landscape of Reform Ben Minteer offers a fresh and provocative reading of the intellectual foundations of American environmentalism, focusing on the work and legacy of four important conservation and planning thinkers in the f…
The Future of Environmental Philosophy
Robert Frodeman, Dale Jamieson, J. Baird Callicott, Stephen M. Gardiner, Lori Gruen, Dale Jamieson, Irene J. Klaver, Eugene Hargrove, Ben A. Minteer, Bryan Norton, Clare Palmer, Holmes Rolston, III, Ricardo Rozzi, James P. Sterba, William M. Throop, Victoria Davion, Commentary on the Future of Environmental Philosophy, Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall, 2007), pp. 117-150
Conservation or Preservation? A Qualitative Study of the Conceptual Foundations of Natural Resource Management
Pragmatism, Piety, and Environmental Ethics
The rise of pragmatism in environmental ethics in the 1990s was driven by several factors, including dissatisfaction with the field's dominant nonanthropocentrism and the desire to increase the political and policy influence of environmental ethics. Yet despite an emphasis on human experience as the foundation of environmental values and action, environmental pragmatists have paid little attention to the religious dimensions of human-nature inter…
Biocentric Farming
Nature in Common?
Landscape of Reform
Judith A. Layzer
Economic growth, urbanization, globalization, and the risks of emerging infectious diseases in China
The Ark and Beyond
This chapter re-examines debates over the use of cloning to preserve endangered animals in zoos, which is supplemented by an analysis of the debates regarding de-extinction. Where previous research has used nature and culture as a lens for parsing the debates over cloning, reproduction is here used as an alternative analytic lens. Different ideas about reproduction are argued to be central to debates over whether or not techniques like cloning sh…
A Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton
Protection of wetlands as a strategy for reducing the spread of avian influenza from migratory waterfowl
Wild Visions
Wild Visions
Reconsidering anthropomorphism for human interactions with zoo-housed animals
Zoos have long employed anthropomorphic perspectives in presenting and interpreting their animals. And yet, there are benefits and risks when analogizing nonhuman animal motivation and behavior to human motivation and behavior and calling them equivalent. In this review, we briefly explore the debate over anthropomorphism in animal behavior literature and then discuss its application to the zoo setting. Though the use of anthropomorphism to under…
Epistemology (13 works) · Environmental ethics (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (9 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works)