Monday, March 12, 2018

"Beyond Moral Fundamentalism: Pragmatic Pluralism in Environmental Ethics"

Steven Fesmire, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College; Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Green Mountain College

Like other complex, multi-dimensional problems of contemporary pluralistic democratic societies, environmental problems demand that we gain a practical footing informed by conflicting claims that may legitimately tug us in incompatible directions. John Dewey’s (1859-1952) pluralistic approach to value conflicts suggests a framework for developing heuristics to help us gain this footing.

Video here...
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And, a short video of Steven several years ago discussing John Dewey: Universalism/Contextualism

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