Ph.D candidate in philosophy at the University of South Florida. My primary interests involve philosophical investigations into ontological and existential issues related to climate change. My work is comparative in nature. I am currently working on my dissertation which will assess EcoDharma/Green Buddhism both for how it offers philosophical resources for thinking about climate change, and for its relationship to Early Buddhist thought. Supervisors: Dr. Wei Zhang (Philosophy, USF), Dr. Alex Levine (Philosophy, USF), Dr. Eric Winsberg (Philosophy, USF), and Dr. Gil Ben-Herut (Religious Studies, USF) Phone: 813-999-6074
In “The Land Ethic”, Aldo Leopold lays out the case for an extension of ethics as "an evolutionar... more In “The Land Ethic”, Aldo Leopold lays out the case for an extension of ethics as "an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity." He describes this extension as a change of humanity's role from that of "conqueror of the land-community" to that of "plain member and citizen" of the land-community. Since Leopold wrote this, the Holocene has yielded to the Anthropocene. In this paper I will address: • How well Leopold's claims have aged. • How changing our role according to Leopold will allow us to defuse the Earth System crisis and respond to the climate emergency. • How the envisioned role or evolutionary goal-stage must be cast.
The Sarvāstivāda give an analysis of experience into impartite units called dharmas. What largel... more The Sarvāstivāda give an analysis of experience into impartite units called dharmas. What largely distinguishes the Sarvāstivāda is the view that all dharmas exist concurrently in all time periods: past, present, and future. How is it that each of these events which occur in the past and future exist concurrently with the events of the present moment? The answers the Sarvāstivāda provide further reveal epistemological and soteriological motivations. They hold that if past and future are to be known, they must exist concurrently to be available for apprehension in the present. In this paper I want to first explain how these dharmas persist across the three time-periods and what I take to be the primarily soteriological motivations for this view. The soteriological concerns address how the current or future karmic outcome of past actions is possible without an immediate link between the action and its outcome.
In “The Land Ethic”, Aldo Leopold lays out the case for an extension of ethics as "an evolutionar... more In “The Land Ethic”, Aldo Leopold lays out the case for an extension of ethics as "an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity." He describes this extension as a change of humanity's role from that of "conqueror of the land-community" to that of "plain member and citizen" of the land-community. Since Leopold wrote this, the Holocene has yielded to the Anthropocene. In this paper I will address: • How well Leopold's claims have aged. • How changing our role according to Leopold will allow us to defuse the Earth System crisis and respond to the climate emergency. • How the envisioned role or evolutionary goal-stage must be cast.
The Sarvāstivāda give an analysis of experience into impartite units called dharmas. What largel... more The Sarvāstivāda give an analysis of experience into impartite units called dharmas. What largely distinguishes the Sarvāstivāda is the view that all dharmas exist concurrently in all time periods: past, present, and future. How is it that each of these events which occur in the past and future exist concurrently with the events of the present moment? The answers the Sarvāstivāda provide further reveal epistemological and soteriological motivations. They hold that if past and future are to be known, they must exist concurrently to be available for apprehension in the present. In this paper I want to first explain how these dharmas persist across the three time-periods and what I take to be the primarily soteriological motivations for this view. The soteriological concerns address how the current or future karmic outcome of past actions is possible without an immediate link between the action and its outcome.
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• How well Leopold's claims have aged.
• How changing our role according to Leopold will allow us to defuse the Earth System crisis and respond to the climate emergency.
• How the envisioned role or evolutionary goal-stage must be cast.
• How well Leopold's claims have aged.
• How changing our role according to Leopold will allow us to defuse the Earth System crisis and respond to the climate emergency.
• How the envisioned role or evolutionary goal-stage must be cast.