Arne Johan Vetlesen: 3 books
Perception, Empathy, and Judgment
An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1993
In Perception, Empathy, and Judgment Arne Johan Vetlesen focuses on the indispensable role of emotion, especially the faculty of empathy, in morality. He contends that moral conduct is severely threatened once empathy is prevented from taking part in an interplay with cognitive faculties (such as...
The Denial of Nature
Environmental philosophy in the era of global capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the importance of experiencing, rather than merely theorizing nature, while realizing that such experience...
Cosmologies of the Anthropocene
Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since Descartes, it explores the devastating impact that...