Ben Almassi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Almassi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Almassi |
| SIGNATURE | BEN ALMASSI |
| AFFILIATIONS | Governors State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Book Review: Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
What We Owe Owls. Nonideal Relationality among Fellow Creatures in the Old Growth Forest
Though many of us have constructed our lives (or have had them constructed for us) such that it is easy to ignore or forget, human lives are entangled with other animals in many ways. Some interspecies relations would arguably exist in some form or another even under an ideal model of animal ethics. Others have an inescapably non-ideal character – these relationships exist as they do because things have gone wrong. In such circumstances we have r…
Nontoxic
This open access book argues for allyship masculinity as an open-ended, intersectional model for feminist men.
Relationally Responsive Expert Trustworthiness
Social epistemologists often operationalize the task of indirectly assessing experts’ trustworthiness to identifying whose beliefs are more reliably true on matters in an area of expertise. Not only does this neglect the philosophically rich space between belief formation and testimonial utterances, it also reduces trustworthiness to reliability. In ethics of trust, by contrast, explicitly relational views of trust include things like good will a…
Value disputes in urban ecological restoration
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds
“One of the penalties of an ecological education,” wrote Aldo Leopold,” is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality…
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds
“One of the penalties of an ecological education,” wrote Aldo Leopold,” is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality…
Beyond Science Wars Redux
Bruno Latour is not the only scholar to reflect on his earlier contributions to science studies with some regret and resolve over climate skepticism and science denialism. Given the ascendency of merchants of doubt, should those who share Latour's concerns join the scientists they study in circling the wagons, or is there a productive role still for science studies to question and critique scientists and scientific institutions? I argue for the l…
Ecological Restorations as Practices of Moral Repair”
The value of ecological restoration has seen considerable criticism and defense in environmental ethics over the past three decades. Its proponents point to the human and ecological benefits of restoration projects, while its critics characterize restoration as impossible, arbitrary, delusional, or domination. In this paper, I draw attention to the theoretical and practical merits of conceiving ecological restoration as practices of environmental…
Climate Change and the Need for Intergenerational Reparative Justice
A Defense of Ignorance
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
Disability, functional diversity, and trans/feminism
I propose that a feminist analysis of contemporary conversations on normalfunctioning and functional-diversity approaches to understanding disability can locate in some people’s resistances to disability an attitude compatible with respect for functional diversity. The history of feminist work in collaboration with transgender work offers an evocative model for an approach to disability that enables solidarity with those seeking functional altera…
Trust in expert testimony
Conflicting Expert Testimony and the Search for Gravitational Waves
How can we make informed decisions about whom to trust given expert disagreement? Can experts on both sides be reasonable in holding conflicting views? Epistemologists have engaged the issue of reasonable expert disagreement generally; here I consider a particular expert dispute in physics, given conflicting accounts from Harry Collins and Allan Franklin, over Joseph Weber's alleged detection of gravitational waves. Finding common ground between …
Climate Change and the Need for Intergenerational Reparative Justice
Value disputes in urban ecological restoration
Conflicting Expert Testimony and the Search for Gravitational Waves
How can we make informed decisions about whom to trust given expert disagreement? Can experts on both sides be reasonable in holding conflicting views? Epistemologists have engaged the issue of reasonable expert disagreement generally; here I consider a particular expert dispute in physics, given conflicting accounts from Harry Collins and Allan Franklin, over Joseph Weber's alleged detection of gravitational waves. Finding common ground between …
Trust in expert testimony
Conflicting Expert Testimony and the Search for Gravitational Waves
How can we make informed decisions about whom to trust given expert disagreement? Can experts on both sides be reasonable in holding conflicting views? Epistemologists have engaged the issue of reasonable expert disagreement generally; here I consider a particular expert dispute in physics, given conflicting accounts from Harry Collins and Allan Franklin, over Joseph Weber's alleged detection of gravitational waves. Finding common ground between …
Disability, functional diversity, and trans/feminism
I propose that a feminist analysis of contemporary conversations on normalfunctioning and functional-diversity approaches to understanding disability can locate in some people’s resistances to disability an attitude compatible with respect for functional diversity. The history of feminist work in collaboration with transgender work offers an evocative model for an approach to disability that enables solidarity with those seeking functional altera…
A Defense of Ignorance
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
Ecological Restorations as Practices of Moral Repair”
The value of ecological restoration has seen considerable criticism and defense in environmental ethics over the past three decades. Its proponents point to the human and ecological benefits of restoration projects, while its critics characterize restoration as impossible, arbitrary, delusional, or domination. In this paper, I draw attention to the theoretical and practical merits of conceiving ecological restoration as practices of environmental…
Climate Change and the Need for Intergenerational Reparative Justice
Beyond Science Wars Redux
Bruno Latour is not the only scholar to reflect on his earlier contributions to science studies with some regret and resolve over climate skepticism and science denialism. Given the ascendency of merchants of doubt, should those who share Latour's concerns join the scientists they study in circling the wagons, or is there a productive role still for science studies to question and critique scientists and scientific institutions? I argue for the l…
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds
“One of the penalties of an ecological education,” wrote Aldo Leopold,” is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality…
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds
“One of the penalties of an ecological education,” wrote Aldo Leopold,” is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality…
Value disputes in urban ecological restoration
Nontoxic
This open access book argues for allyship masculinity as an open-ended, intersectional model for feminist men.
Relationally Responsive Expert Trustworthiness
Social epistemologists often operationalize the task of indirectly assessing experts’ trustworthiness to identifying whose beliefs are more reliably true on matters in an area of expertise. Not only does this neglect the philosophically rich space between belief formation and testimonial utterances, it also reduces trustworthiness to reliability. In ethics of trust, by contrast, explicitly relational views of trust include things like good will a…
What We Owe Owls. Nonideal Relationality among Fellow Creatures in the Old Growth Forest
Though many of us have constructed our lives (or have had them constructed for us) such that it is easy to ignore or forget, human lives are entangled with other animals in many ways. Some interspecies relations would arguably exist in some form or another even under an ideal model of animal ethics. Others have an inescapably non-ideal character – these relationships exist as they do because things have gone wrong. In such circumstances we have r…
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Book Review: Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Political science (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)