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A Sand County Almanac

A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There is a 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. J. Baird Callicott and Aldo Leopold are environmental ethicists.

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American philosophy

American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States.

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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (EPM) is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume.

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Ancient Greek philosophy

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC.

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Animal rights movement

The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.

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Apollo

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Applied ethics

Applied ethics is the practical aspect of moral considerations.

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Biocomplexity

'Biocomplexity' is a multidisciplinary field that examines and investigates emergent properties arising from the interaction of multiple biological agents, phenomena, and systems, which may range in spatiotemporal scales, biological relationships,interactions and levels from molecules to ecosystems.

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Bioethics

Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, medicine, and technologies.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Business ethics

Business ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics, that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment.

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Catherine Larrère

Catherine Larrère (nee Delafoss, born 4 August 1944) is a French philosopher and academic.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.

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Conservation biology

Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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David Hume

David Hume (born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism.

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Denton, Texas

Denton is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Denton County.

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Deontology

In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: +) is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action.

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Ecofascism

Ecofascism (sometimes spelled eco-fascism) is a term used to describe individuals and groups which combine environmentalism with fascism.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Emotivism

Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes.

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Environmental ethics

In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resources." The main competing paradigms are anthropocentrism, physiocentrism (called ecocentrism as well), and theocentrism.

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Environmental Ethics (journal)

Environmental Ethics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering environmental philosophy.

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Environmental philosophy

Environmental philosophy is the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the natural environment and humans' place within it.

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Environmentalist

An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with and/or advocates for the protection of the environment.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth.

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Fountain Lake, Arkansas

Fountain Lake is a town in Garland County, Arkansas, United States.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Holism

Holism is the interdisciplinary idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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International Society for Environmental Ethics

The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) is an environmental organization based at the University of North Texas founded in 1990 with Holmes Rolston III as its first president.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (4 February 1747/8 O.S. – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. J. Baird Callicott and Jeremy Bentham are animal rights scholars.

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John Muir

John Muir (April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.

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Judeo-Christian

The term Judeo-Christian is used to group Christianity and Judaism together, either in reference to Christianity's derivation from Judaism, Christianity's recognition of Jewish scripture to constitute the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or values supposed to be shared by the two religions.

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Land ethic

A land ethic is a philosophy or theoretical framework about how, ethically, humans should regard the land.

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List of American philosophers

This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.

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Macmillan Inc.

Macmillan Inc. was an American book publishing company originally established as the American division of the British Macmillan Publishers.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Memphis College of Art

Memphis College of Art (MCA) was a private art college in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Messick High School

Messick High School was a public high school in Memphis, Tennessee, established in 1908 and operated from 1909 to 1981.

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Monism

Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence.

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Narrative

A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether non-fictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these.

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Paradigm

In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.

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Paul W. Taylor

Paul W. Taylor (November 19, 1923 – October 14, 2015) was an American philosopher best known for his work in the field of environmental ethics. J. Baird Callicott and Paul W. Taylor are 20th-century American philosophers, 21st-century American philosophers and environmental ethicists.

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Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. J. Baird Callicott and Peter Singer are animal rights scholars.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.

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Religious studies

Religious studies, also known as the study of religion, is the scientific study of religion.

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Rhodes College

Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Richard Sylvan

Richard Sylvan (13 December 1935 – 16 June 1996) was a New Zealand–born philosopher, logician, and environmentalist. J. Baird Callicott and Richard Sylvan are environmental ethicists.

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Robert Frodeman

Robert Frodeman is former Professor and former Chair, Dept of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, previously at the University of Colorado, and Director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity. J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman are 21st-century American philosophers and environmental ethicists.

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Roger T. Ames

Roger T. Ames (born 12 December 1947) is a Canadian-born philosopher, translator, and author.

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Sine qua non

A sine qua non or conditio sine qua non (plural: conditiones sine quibus non) is an indispensable and essential action, condition, or ingredient.

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Subjectivism

Subjectivism is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience", instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.

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Taoism

Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.

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Teleology

Teleology (from, and)Partridge, Eric.

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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection.

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The Institute for Citizens & Scholars

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) is a nonpartisan, non-profit institution based in Princeton, New Jersey that says it aims to strengthen American democracy by "cultivating the talent, ideas, and networks that develop lifelong, effective citizens".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Baird_Callicott

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