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Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter? (2023)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2023). Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter?. Environmental Values, https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719231171836

It is often supposed that valuable organisms are more valuable if they are rare. Likewise if they belong to endangered species. I consider what kinds of value rarity and endangerment can add in such cases. I argue that individual organisms of a valua... Read More about Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter?.

How Nature Matters: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value (2022)
Book
James, S. P. (2022). How Nature Matters: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value. Oxford University Press

How Nature Matters presents an original theory of nature’s value based on part–whole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts o... Read More about How Nature Matters: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value.

Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960 (2022)
Journal Article
Gijbels, J., Lancaster, C., Maehle, A., & Vander Hulst, R. (2022). Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960. Journal of Religious History, 46(3), 439-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12871

This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting conceptions of the Catholic doctor in French and English-language normative texts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Behavioural norms for... Read More about Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960.

Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics (2020)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2020). Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics. Journal of Buddhist ethics, 27,

It has often been suggested that the Buddhist teachings can help us to meet the moral challenges posed by the climate crisis. This paper, by contrast, addresses some challenges the topic of climate justice presents for Buddhist ethics. Two arguments... Read More about Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics.

Legal Rights and Nature's Contributions to People: Is There a Connection? (2020)
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James, S. P. (2020). Legal Rights and Nature's Contributions to People: Is There a Connection?. Biological Conservation, 241, Article 108325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108325

It has been claimed that approaches to conservation framed in terms of nature’s contributions to people are congenial to ones framed in terms of rights. This paper provides what has so far been lacking – namely, an argument in support of this claim.... Read More about Legal Rights and Nature's Contributions to People: Is There a Connection?.

Natural Meanings and Cultural Values (2019)
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James, S. P. (2019). Natural Meanings and Cultural Values. Environmental Ethics, 41(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics20194112

In many cases, rivers, mountains, forests, and other so-called natural entities have value for us because they contribute to our well-being. According to the standard model of such value, they have instrumental or “service” value for us on account of... Read More about Natural Meanings and Cultural Values.

Madhyamaka, Metaphysical Realism and the Possibility of an Ancestral World (2018)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2018). Madhyamaka, Metaphysical Realism and the Possibility of an Ancestral World. Philosophy East and West, 68(4), 1116-1133. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.0.0132

It is sometimes argued that metaphysical anti-realists cannot consistently affirm the evident truth that the world existed before any conscious subjects evolved. I consider how Mādhyamikas could respond, and, in so doing, clarify where Madhyamaka may... Read More about Madhyamaka, Metaphysical Realism and the Possibility of an Ancestral World.

Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914 (2018)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2020). Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914. Social History of Medicine, 33(1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky072

Traditional historiography tends to draw a negative picture of British doctors’ ethics during the long nineteenth century. The medical professional ethics of this period have been described as self-serving and as a tool to monopolise the health care... Read More about Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914.

Merleau-Ponty and Metaphysical Realism (2018)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2018). Merleau-Ponty and Metaphysical Realism. European Journal of Philosophy, 26(4), 1312-1323. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12386

Global metaphysical antirealism (or “antirealism”) is often thought to entail that the identity of each and every concrete entity in our world ultimately depends on us—on our adoption of certain social and linguistic conventions, for instance, or on... Read More about Merleau-Ponty and Metaphysical Realism.

The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa (2018)
Journal Article
Eddy, M. D. (2018). The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa. Journal of British Studies, 57(2), 275-307. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.239

John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa, was one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment. Though scholars embrace its impact on the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences... Read More about The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa.

A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900 (2017)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2017). A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 71(2), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2017.0006

In the late nineteenth century, German-speaking physicians and psychiatrists intensely debated the benefits and risks of treatment by hypnotic suggestion. While practitioners of the method sought to provide convincing evidence for its therapeutic eff... Read More about A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900.

The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment (2016)
Journal Article
Eddy, M. (2016). The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment. Book History, 19(1), 86-131. https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2016.0002

Concentrating on the rich tradition of graphic culture that permeated Scotland’s universities during the long eighteenth century, this essay argues that student lecture notebooks were a sophisticated form of scribal media. I reveal that they were ins... Read More about The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment.

Phenomenology and the Charge of Anthropocentrism (2016)
Book Chapter
James, S. P. (2016). Phenomenology and the Charge of Anthropocentrism. In B. Bannon (Ed.), Nature and Experience: Phenomenology and the Environment (43-52). Rowman & Littlefield