Bruce V. Foltz is Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has published numerous articles on environmental philosophy and the philosophy of technology.

Robert Frodeman is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He is also Director of the New Directions Initiative and the Global Climate Change and Society program. His works include Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and Earth Sciences and other essays in environmental thought.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Nature of Environmental PhilosophyBruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman

Part 1. The Phenomenology of Nature

1. The Uncanny Goodness of Being Edible to BearsJames Hatley

2. Trees and Truth (or, Why We Are Really All Druids)David Wood

3. Boundary Projects versus Border PatrolIrene J. Klaver

4. Children and the Ethics of PlaceIngrid Leman Stefanovic

5. ReciprocityDavid Abram

Part 2. Nature and the Philosophical Tradition

6. Eco-logic: An Erotic of NatureTrish Glazebrook

7. Vegetable Genius: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating to the Natural World in Post-Kantian German ThoughtElaine P. Miller

8. The Elemental EarthJohn Sallis

Part 3. Nature and Natural Science

9. Philosophy in the FieldRobert Frodeman

10. Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the Human PredicamentRobert Kirkman

11. Deleuze and Guattari's Return to Science as a Basis for Environmental PhilosophyRobert Mugerauer

Part 4. Approaches to Nature

12. What Can Continental Philosophy Contribute to Environmentalism?Michael E. Zimmerman

13. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics: A Difficult Relationship?Diane Michelfelder

14. Biodiversity, Exuberance, and Abundance: Cherishing the Body of the EarthStephen David Ross

15. Mapping the Earth in Works of ArtEdward S. Casey

Part 5. On the Nature of Nature

16. The Music of SpaceAlphonso Lingis

17. A Sand County Almanac: Through Anthropogenic to Ecogenic ThinkingKenneth Maly

18. Nature and Nurture: A Non-disjunctive ApproachBruce Wilshire, with Ron Cooper

19. Nature and Freedom: An Introduction to the Environmental Thought of Bernard CharbonneauDaniel Cérézuelle

20. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of GivennessBruce V. Foltz

Contributors

Index