Category: Can we reason with nature?
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Jordskrift
(English summary below) Imens jeg har gravet og gravet i det her forsøg på at komme til bunds i, hvordan vi mennesker behandler hinanden og vores omgivelser – og en mulig sammenhæng mellem de to relationer – har jeg i en periode valgt podcasten som format. Da jeg alligevel til dagligt går ture med min…
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Autism is an environmentalism
While reading and summarizing Descola’s giant work Beyond nature and culture, I have been ‘side-reading’ some stuff about autism. Reading the book Women from another planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism has made me think some additional thoughts to my reading of Descola. Women from another planet? is a book, collectively written by a group…
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Is Spinoza an analogist, naturalist or … animist? – A pocket memo…
As a part of my ‘pocket research design 2‘, I am reading Descola’s Beyond Nature and Culture (see my selective pocket summary in progress here). While reading, ideas for my coming synthesis/pocket essay are beginning to condensate in my brain. Descola is a structuralist, (see my discussion here) and in order to take advantage of…
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Reading Descola – a doubtful pitstop…. (memo)
As I have promised (myself) in my second pocket research design, I am reading French Anthropologist Philippe Descola’s book “Beyond Nature and Culture”, while writing a ‘selective pocket summary’ here. And while reading: thinking… I am attacking Descola’s mammoth work from various angles at the time. I am reading it as a pdf, in English…
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Pocket research design 2: Pre-modern forager societies vs Spinoza’s polis. A model for a more sustainable way of life in our time?
As a part of my ‘pocket research program’, titled “Can we reason with nature?”, this is my second pocket research design. Here, I would like to follow up on a point, that Australian professor in environmental philosophy Freya Mathews raises in her article “Towards a Deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry” (read my pocket summary here): “The outlines…
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Will knowing nature make us better humans? Pocket research design 1
This is a ‘pocket research design’, where I outline the question whether knowing nature will make humans treat each other and our surroundings better.
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Descola – beyond nature and culture; a selective pocket summary
As a first step in my ‘pocket research program’ “Pre-modern forager societies vs Spinoza’s polis” (read more here), I am reading French anthropologist Philippe Descola’s book Beyond Nature and Culture (published 2013. Original title: Par-delà nature et culture (2005)). This is my selective pocket summary. I am reading this mammoth work from a very selective viewpoint, in…
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Does hierarchy kill nature?
After reading Freya Mathews’ article “A deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry”, (see my summary here) – which I find very inspirational – I feel the need to further investigate some of the paths she’s laying out. Particularly I would like to dig more into her framework for a ‘deeper philosophy’ based on the two concepts conativity…
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Will knowing nature make us better humans? Can A deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry give us the answer?
In my search for an answer to the question if humans will be better at connecting with eachother if they become better at connecting with their environments, I’ve read Australian professor of environmental philosohy Freya Mathews article “Towards a Deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry”. This blogpost is my short resume of the article.
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