Eileen Crist
Biographic Data
| ID | 521984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eileen Crist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eileen |
| FAMILY NAME | Crist |
| SIGNATURE | CRIST E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3070-9697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cohabiting Earth: Seeking a Bright Future for All Life
L'analysabilité de l'interaction entre humains et animaux: Le Cas De l'Éducation Canine
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including humanity—is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts. Second, we ask what political or economic sy…
Human population, social justice, and climate policy
Trevor Hedberg. The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation
The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection
Research suggests that the scale of human population and the current pace of its growth contribute substantially to the loss of biological diversity. Although technological change and unequal consumption inextricably mingle with demographic impacts on the environment, the needs of all human beings—especially for food—imply that projected population growth will undermine protection of the natural world. Numerous solutions have been proposed to boo…
An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm
We assess progress toward the protection of 50% of the terrestrial biosphere to address the species-extinction crisis and conserve a global ecological heritage for future generations. Using a map of Earth's 846 terrestrial ecoregions, we show that 98 ecoregions (12%) exceed Half Protected; 313 ecoregions (37%) fall short of Half Protected but have sufficient unaltered habitat remaining to reach the target; and 207 ecoregions (24%) are in peril, w…
The Reaches of Freedom: A Response to An Ecomodernist Manifesto
An Ecomodernist Manifesto's ardent recommendations on some of the most salient ecological and social quandaries we face are motivated by a future world of "vastly improved material well-being, public health, resource productivity, economic integration, shared infrastructure, and personal freedom." 1 The Manifesto calls for building a global civilization that is cosmopolitan, connected, and high-tech, in which all people enjoy social and political…
Unsettling anthropocentrism
On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature
This paper examines the recent proposal to christen our geological epoch "the Anthropocene." The reasoning offered for this new name is that humanity's enormous mark on the geological strata would be a discernible boundary to future geologists; therefore a change in nomenclature is called for to reflect our transition out of the Holocene (our epoch's current formal name). I argue, however, that the pitch for the Anthropocene goes well beyond this…
The Intervention of Critical Pedagogy in Mainstream Animal Education
Images Of Animals
Images of Animals examines the literature of behavioral science, revealing how works with the common aim of documenting animal lives, habits, and instincts describe "realities that are worlds apart." Whether the writer affirms the Cartesian verdict of an unbridgeable chasm between animals and humans or the Darwinian panorama of evolutionary continuity, the question of animal mind is ever present and problematic in behavioral thought. Comparing th…
Walking on my page: Intimacy and insight in Len Howard's cottage of birds
English In this article, I investigate naturalist and musicologist Len Howard's form of knowledge of bird life. Examining her presentations closely, I show that her methodology of intimate cohabitation with and observation of her subjects resulted in a unique documentary: a deeply personal and highly privileged understanding of wild birds. I approach Howard's focus on bird individuality through Martin Buber's lens of the reciprocity of I-and-Thou…
Can an Insect Speak: The Case of the Honeybee Dance Language
In this paper I investigate the scientific understanding of the honeybee dance language. I elucidate the implicit and explicit reasons why the honeybees’ communication system has been referred to as a ‘language’, and examine the ways this designation has entangled the themes of animal mind and human– animal continuity. I end with an investigation of a scientific controversy surrounding the honeybee dance language. I argue that this controversy wa…
Against the Social Construction of Nature and Wilderness
The representational and the presentational, an essay on cognition and the study of mind
Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology (review)
From questions to stimuli, from answers to reactions: The case of Clever Hans
Naturalists' Portrayals of Animal Life: Engaging the Verstehen Approach
This paper is an investigation into naturalists' understanding of animal life, focusing specifically on the turn-of-the-century naturalists George and Elizabeth Peckham, and Jean Henri Fabre. It argues that these authors apply what social scientists call the `Verstehen' method to the study of animals, in that they approach animal action as evidencing a subjective, experiential perspective. The presuppositions and forms of evidencing and reasoning…
On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature
This paper examines the recent proposal to christen our geological epoch "the Anthropocene." The reasoning offered for this new name is that humanity's enormous mark on the geological strata would be a discernible boundary to future geologists; therefore a change in nomenclature is called for to reflect our transition out of the Holocene (our epoch's current formal name). I argue, however, that the pitch for the Anthropocene goes well beyond this…
Can an Insect Speak: The Case of the Honeybee Dance Language
In this paper I investigate the scientific understanding of the honeybee dance language. I elucidate the implicit and explicit reasons why the honeybees’ communication system has been referred to as a ‘language’, and examine the ways this designation has entangled the themes of animal mind and human– animal continuity. I end with an investigation of a scientific controversy surrounding the honeybee dance language. I argue that this controversy wa…
The Reaches of Freedom: A Response to An Ecomodernist Manifesto
An Ecomodernist Manifesto's ardent recommendations on some of the most salient ecological and social quandaries we face are motivated by a future world of "vastly improved material well-being, public health, resource productivity, economic integration, shared infrastructure, and personal freedom." 1 The Manifesto calls for building a global civilization that is cosmopolitan, connected, and high-tech, in which all people enjoy social and political…
Against the Social Construction of Nature and Wilderness
Images Of Animals
Images of Animals examines the literature of behavioral science, revealing how works with the common aim of documenting animal lives, habits, and instincts describe "realities that are worlds apart." Whether the writer affirms the Cartesian verdict of an unbridgeable chasm between animals and humans or the Darwinian panorama of evolutionary continuity, the question of animal mind is ever present and problematic in behavioral thought. Comparing th…
Naturalists' Portrayals of Animal Life: Engaging the Verstehen Approach
This paper is an investigation into naturalists' understanding of animal life, focusing specifically on the turn-of-the-century naturalists George and Elizabeth Peckham, and Jean Henri Fabre. It argues that these authors apply what social scientists call the `Verstehen' method to the study of animals, in that they approach animal action as evidencing a subjective, experiential perspective. The presuppositions and forms of evidencing and reasoning…
From questions to stimuli, from answers to reactions: The case of Clever Hans
Walking on my page: Intimacy and insight in Len Howard's cottage of birds
English In this article, I investigate naturalist and musicologist Len Howard's form of knowledge of bird life. Examining her presentations closely, I show that her methodology of intimate cohabitation with and observation of her subjects resulted in a unique documentary: a deeply personal and highly privileged understanding of wild birds. I approach Howard's focus on bird individuality through Martin Buber's lens of the reciprocity of I-and-Thou…
The representational and the presentational, an essay on cognition and the study of mind
Naturalists' Portrayals of Animal Life: Engaging the Verstehen Approach
This paper is an investigation into naturalists' understanding of animal life, focusing specifically on the turn-of-the-century naturalists George and Elizabeth Peckham, and Jean Henri Fabre. It argues that these authors apply what social scientists call the `Verstehen' method to the study of animals, in that they approach animal action as evidencing a subjective, experiential perspective. The presuppositions and forms of evidencing and reasoning…
Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology (review)
From questions to stimuli, from answers to reactions: The case of Clever Hans
The representational and the presentational, an essay on cognition and the study of mind
Can an Insect Speak: The Case of the Honeybee Dance Language
In this paper I investigate the scientific understanding of the honeybee dance language. I elucidate the implicit and explicit reasons why the honeybees’ communication system has been referred to as a ‘language’, and examine the ways this designation has entangled the themes of animal mind and human– animal continuity. I end with an investigation of a scientific controversy surrounding the honeybee dance language. I argue that this controversy wa…
Against the Social Construction of Nature and Wilderness
Walking on my page: Intimacy and insight in Len Howard's cottage of birds
English In this article, I investigate naturalist and musicologist Len Howard's form of knowledge of bird life. Examining her presentations closely, I show that her methodology of intimate cohabitation with and observation of her subjects resulted in a unique documentary: a deeply personal and highly privileged understanding of wild birds. I approach Howard's focus on bird individuality through Martin Buber's lens of the reciprocity of I-and-Thou…
Images Of Animals
Images of Animals examines the literature of behavioral science, revealing how works with the common aim of documenting animal lives, habits, and instincts describe "realities that are worlds apart." Whether the writer affirms the Cartesian verdict of an unbridgeable chasm between animals and humans or the Darwinian panorama of evolutionary continuity, the question of animal mind is ever present and problematic in behavioral thought. Comparing th…
The Intervention of Critical Pedagogy in Mainstream Animal Education
On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature
This paper examines the recent proposal to christen our geological epoch "the Anthropocene." The reasoning offered for this new name is that humanity's enormous mark on the geological strata would be a discernible boundary to future geologists; therefore a change in nomenclature is called for to reflect our transition out of the Holocene (our epoch's current formal name). I argue, however, that the pitch for the Anthropocene goes well beyond this…
Unsettling anthropocentrism
The Reaches of Freedom: A Response to An Ecomodernist Manifesto
An Ecomodernist Manifesto's ardent recommendations on some of the most salient ecological and social quandaries we face are motivated by a future world of "vastly improved material well-being, public health, resource productivity, economic integration, shared infrastructure, and personal freedom." 1 The Manifesto calls for building a global civilization that is cosmopolitan, connected, and high-tech, in which all people enjoy social and political…
The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection
Research suggests that the scale of human population and the current pace of its growth contribute substantially to the loss of biological diversity. Although technological change and unequal consumption inextricably mingle with demographic impacts on the environment, the needs of all human beings—especially for food—imply that projected population growth will undermine protection of the natural world. Numerous solutions have been proposed to boo…
An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm
We assess progress toward the protection of 50% of the terrestrial biosphere to address the species-extinction crisis and conserve a global ecological heritage for future generations. Using a map of Earth's 846 terrestrial ecoregions, we show that 98 ecoregions (12%) exceed Half Protected; 313 ecoregions (37%) fall short of Half Protected but have sufficient unaltered habitat remaining to reach the target; and 207 ecoregions (24%) are in peril, w…
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including humanity—is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts. Second, we ask what political or economic sy…
Human population, social justice, and climate policy
Trevor Hedberg. The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation
L'analysabilité de l'interaction entre humains et animaux: Le Cas De l'Éducation Canine
Cohabiting Earth: Seeking a Bright Future for All Life
Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Biology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Law (4 works)