Dane Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 5006313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dane Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dane |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chaining Gods
This paper explores the ritualized binding of cult images with chains or fetters in the ancient Mediterranean. Both ancient and contemporary interpretations often view these practices as efforts to retain divine presence in times of crisis or to restrain the volatile power of fickle gods. This paper suggests an alternative interpretation grounded in materiality theory and comparative insights from East Asian ritual iconoclasm. I argue that ritual…
Freedom of Cropping and the Good Life
Global citizenship, deliberation and agricultural sustainability. Possibilities for on-line deliberations
Choosing Carbon Mitigation Strategies Using Ethical Deliberation
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions change earth’s climate by altering the planet’s radiative balance. An important first step in mitigation of climate change is to reduce annual increases in these emissions. However, the many suggested means of limiting emissions rates have led to few actual changes in policy or behavior. This disconnection can be attributed in part to the difficulty of convening groups of stakeholders with diverse values, th…
The Technological Fix Criticisms and the Agricultural Biotechnology Debate
The Magic Bullet Criticism of Agricultural Biotechnology
"Transforming The "Market-Model University
This paper addresses the problem of the declining status of philosophy and the humanities in higher education. These events have given rise to discussions of the "corporatization" of higher education and the dominance of the "Market-Model University." In the Market-Model University the chief goals are to teach marketable skills and develop marketable innovations. In responding to these developments, my thesis is that practical philosophy, exempli…
The Ecological Community and the Narrative of Creation
The ideal of an ecological community uniting humans to the earth is an important normative ideal in environmental ethics. In this paper I will briefly look at one of the more popular stories that provides the philosophical underpinnings for this ideal. This is the story told by Baird Callicott, through his interpretation of Leopold's land ethic. In the critical portion of this essay, I point to problems with this account. The goal is not to prove…
Science and the Consequences of Mistruct
The Ecological Community and the Narrative of Creation
The ideal of an ecological community uniting humans to the earth is an important normative ideal in environmental ethics. In this paper I will briefly look at one of the more popular stories that provides the philosophical underpinnings for this ideal. This is the story told by Baird Callicott, through his interpretation of Leopold's land ethic. In the critical portion of this essay, I point to problems with this account. The goal is not to prove…
Science and the Consequences of Mistruct
"Transforming The "Market-Model University
This paper addresses the problem of the declining status of philosophy and the humanities in higher education. These events have given rise to discussions of the "corporatization" of higher education and the dominance of the "Market-Model University." In the Market-Model University the chief goals are to teach marketable skills and develop marketable innovations. In responding to these developments, my thesis is that practical philosophy, exempli…
The Magic Bullet Criticism of Agricultural Biotechnology
Choosing Carbon Mitigation Strategies Using Ethical Deliberation
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions change earth’s climate by altering the planet’s radiative balance. An important first step in mitigation of climate change is to reduce annual increases in these emissions. However, the many suggested means of limiting emissions rates have led to few actual changes in policy or behavior. This disconnection can be attributed in part to the difficulty of convening groups of stakeholders with diverse values, th…
The Technological Fix Criticisms and the Agricultural Biotechnology Debate
Global citizenship, deliberation and agricultural sustainability. Possibilities for on-line deliberations
Freedom of Cropping and the Good Life
Chaining Gods
This paper explores the ritualized binding of cult images with chains or fetters in the ancient Mediterranean. Both ancient and contemporary interpretations often view these practices as efforts to retain divine presence in times of crisis or to restrain the volatile power of fickle gods. This paper suggests an alternative interpretation grounded in materiality theory and comparative insights from East Asian ritual iconoclasm. I argue that ritual…
Political science (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Deliberation (4 works) · Law (4 works)