Marcello Di Paola
Biographic Data
| ID | 4358346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcello Di Paola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcello |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Paola |
| SIGNATURE | DI PAOLA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Palermo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8607-9447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Virtue, Environmental Ethics, Nonhuman Values, and Anthropocentrism
This article discusses the encounter between virtue ethics and environmental ethics and the ways in which environmental virtue ethics confronts nonhuman axiology and the controversial theme of moral anthropocentrism. It provides a reasoned review of the relevant literature and a historical–conceptual rendition of how environmental and virtue ethics came to converge as well as the ways in which they diverge. It explains that contrary to important …
The Philosophy of Outer Space: Explorations, Controversies, Speculations
Climate Change and Anti-Meaning
In this paper, we propose meaningfulness as one important evaluative criterion in individual climate ethics and suggest that most of our greenhouse gas emitting actions, behaviours, and lives are the opposite of meaningful: anti-meaningful. We explain why such actions etc. score negatively on three important dimensions of the meaningfulness scale, which we call the agential, narrative, and generative dimensions. We suggest that thinking about ind…
The Disorienting Aesthetics of Mashed-Up Anthropocene Environments
This paper describes the disorienting aesthetics of some environments that are characteristic of the Anthropocene. We refer to these environments as ‘mashed-up’ and present three dimensions – phenomenological, epistemological and narrative – of the aesthetic disorientation they can trigger. We then advance the suggestion that a rich, nuanced and meaningful aesthetic experience of mashed-up Anthropocene environments (MAEs) calls for a mode of appr…
When Ethics and Aesthetics Are One and the Same: A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Natural Value
Many environmental philosophers have held naturalness to be a primary source of nature’s value. Seen this way, the nature that is most valuable is wild nature, and ‘wild’ is that which is unmodi?ed by human activity. However, accounts of our attributions of value to the wild often have an aura of elusiveness to them, as if what really matters about nature being wild could not ultimately be captured by words. In an attempt to account for what real…
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When Ethics and Aesthetics Are One and the Same: A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Natural Value
Many environmental philosophers have held naturalness to be a primary source of nature’s value. Seen this way, the nature that is most valuable is wild nature, and ‘wild’ is that which is unmodi?ed by human activity. However, accounts of our attributions of value to the wild often have an aura of elusiveness to them, as if what really matters about nature being wild could not ultimately be captured by words. In an attempt to account for what real…
The Disorienting Aesthetics of Mashed-Up Anthropocene Environments
This paper describes the disorienting aesthetics of some environments that are characteristic of the Anthropocene. We refer to these environments as ‘mashed-up’ and present three dimensions – phenomenological, epistemological and narrative – of the aesthetic disorientation they can trigger. We then advance the suggestion that a rich, nuanced and meaningful aesthetic experience of mashed-up Anthropocene environments (MAEs) calls for a mode of appr…
Climate Change and Anti-Meaning
In this paper, we propose meaningfulness as one important evaluative criterion in individual climate ethics and suggest that most of our greenhouse gas emitting actions, behaviours, and lives are the opposite of meaningful: anti-meaningful. We explain why such actions etc. score negatively on three important dimensions of the meaningfulness scale, which we call the agential, narrative, and generative dimensions. We suggest that thinking about ind…
Virtue, Environmental Ethics, Nonhuman Values, and Anthropocentrism
This article discusses the encounter between virtue ethics and environmental ethics and the ways in which environmental virtue ethics confronts nonhuman axiology and the controversial theme of moral anthropocentrism. It provides a reasoned review of the relevant literature and a historical–conceptual rendition of how environmental and virtue ethics came to converge as well as the ways in which they diverge. It explains that contrary to important …
The Philosophy of Outer Space: Explorations, Controversies, Speculations
Epistemology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (2 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works)