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Technium Social Sciences Journal
Review of Ethics Codes for Environmental RobotsLike robo-fish or conservation drones, environmental robots are those that can carry out jobs for environmental research, engineering, and protection. While the term “environmental robots” can branch into robots-in-ecology, robots-for-ecology, and ecobots, each with differing purposes and ethical concerns, their overall objective is directed towards protecting and enhancing the environmental health on Earth. Though there is a huge potential for the application of environmental robots, this concept itself is relatively new, and thus there is a lack of study done on the ethical aspects of environmental robots. In past literature, researchers often focused on ‘specific’ types or products (e.g., robofish, Treebot, etc.), but there were relatively few surveys of the overall category of environmental robots. Therefore, in recent years, scholars have pointed out the need to consider wider “ethical, practical and sociopolitical concerns'' surrounding environmental robots. This paper...
HERE: https://philpapers.org/rec/DONMEV Value claims about ecological populations, communities, and systems appear everywhere in literature put out by leading environmental advisory institutions. This essay clarifies the content of such normatively significant value claims in two main steps. In it, I first outline the conception of ecological entities, functionality, and properties, I argue is operative in the background of modern ecology. I then assess the implications of that background theory for how policies and management strategy directives that refer to such entities, functionality, and properties, can be most reasonably interpreted and formulated.
Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth, ed by Laurel Kearns and Catherine Keller (New York: Fordham University Press)
“Ecospirituality and the Blurred Boundaries of Humans, Animals and Machines"2007 •
To resort to an embrace of the overlap with animals, creatures and the biosphere while maintaining a hostility against the encroachment of developing capacities of machines is a new kind of romanticism that seeks to keep intact the culture and nature divide. Currently, however, certain parts of cultural production are seen to further some teleology inherent in nature and are “still natural” despite their technological overlay, while other advances that call for a shifting in how humans define themselves are labeled “artificial” or violating to some prior sense of “nature” and humanity that shouldn’t be disturbed. Currently, it seems easier to grant that animals may have souls, be kin, and can be included in the divinity of the planet as direct participants of a larger community, but machines are infernal. These paradoxes have emerged into political discourse and the “culture wars:” one side can claim that to use technology to keep an catastrophically ill person alive is “natural,” in keeping with a sacrality of a creation which has natural rhythms humans may not disturb; and the other side can claim to not use any technological intervention for the terminally ill is the way to allow human choice in self-determination to achieve a dignity beyond nature and the Darwinian impulse for sheer survival. Obviously, at this point the terms used to consider humanity’s relationship to animals and “the natural world” as well as to machines and the built environment are often ambiguous to the point of being unhelpful. These divisions between human and machine are asserted at the same moment in which more and more of our physiology, brain chemistry, sensory apparatus, neurological development, and genetic makeup are understood as machines in some senses, and yet not as compromising to our humanity. Our relationship with animals is more embracing than in centuries past when the animal in us and around us was often reviled and violated, but this unease with the animal and abuse of myriad animal lives in objectifying and destructive ways is far from past. This essay will assert that to make a simple division between humans and machines in regard to their sacrality is unwarranted, and overlooks new dimensions in machines’ evolution, misunderstands dimensions of our relationship to what we build, and fails to fathom the overlap among human, animals and machines has a potential spiritual significance that can be as expansive and liberating as the earlier acknowledgment of the inclusion of animals and the biosphere into sacrality. It is also the contention of this essay that any discussion of any of these three dimensions requires the inclusion of the other two to be fully fathomed and to understand that way in which all three are inseparably interwoven in a spirituality that would embrace the depths of meaning in materiality.
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This annotated bibliography is the first assignment for the "Environmental Philosophy" course of the "Philosophy and Religion" master programme at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. In this assignment, I present and discuss four papers in animal ethics and environmental philosophy: * Joel Feinberg, “The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations” (1974) * Peter Singer, “All Animals Are Equal” (1974) * Paul W. Taylor, “The Ethics of Respect for Nature” (1981) *Mark Sagoff, “Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce” (1984)
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Ecology, Conservation, and Public Policy2001 •
▪ A new sense of urgency about environmental problems has changed the relationship between ecology, other disciplines, and public policy. Issues of uncertainty and scientific inference now influence public debate and public policy. Considerations that formerly may have appeared to be mere technicalities now may have decisive influence. It is time to re-examine our methods to ensure that they are adequate for these new requirements. When science is used in support of policy-making, it cannot be separated from issues of values and equity. In such a context, the role of specialists diminishes, because nobody can be an expert in all the aspects of complicated environmental, social, ethical, and economic issues. The disciplinary boundaries that have served science so well in the past are not very helpful in coping with the complex problems that face us today, and ecology now finds itself in intense interaction with a host of other disciplines. The next generation of ecologists must be ...
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City, Culture and Society
Urban – Rural dwellers’ well-being determinants: When the city size matters. The case of Italy2019 •
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Creative Education
A Study on Bionic Design Approach to Sustainability of Product Design STEM Project-Based Learning2018 •
ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Ultrafast, Highly Sensitive, and Selective Detection of p-Xylene at Room Temperature by Peptide-Hydrogel-Based Composite Material2019 •