The New Greenspeak
(2015)
Journal Article
James, S. (2015). The New Greenspeak. Earth Island journal, 30(1),
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Review of Charles Dickens and ‘Boz’: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author. By Robert L. Patten. (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. J. (2015). Review of Charles Dickens and ‘Boz’: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author. By Robert L. Patten. Modern Language Review, 108(4), 1275-1276
Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2015). Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 18(3), 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2015.1111616This paper is about the practice of evaluating ecosystems on the basis of the cultural services they provide. My first aim is to assess the various objections that have been made to this practice. My second is to argue that when particular places are... Read More about Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment.
Why Old Things Matter (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2015). Why Old Things Matter. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 12(3), 313-329. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-4681038It is, I suggest, unclear whether any old inanimate objects deserve to be treated with respect simply because they are old. Yet this does not entail that an object’s age has no bearing at all on the question of how it may permissibly be treated. I de... Read More about Why Old Things Matter.
Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2016). Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19(1), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9592-6In the US Environmental Protection Agency, the World Wide Fund for Nature and many other environmental organisations, it is standard practice to evaluate particular woods, wetlands and other such places on the basis of the ‘ecosystem services’ they a... Read More about Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places.
'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial (2015)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2015). 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial. In M. O'Neill, M. Sandy, & S. Wootton (Eds.), The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to Moderns (45-58). Pickering & ChattoWhat might it entail to speak or write in words of beauty, especially of physical beauty? Is it the case that the literary arts can never portray beauty itself su ciently, but only the e ects of beauty (wonder, sexual desire , envy)? If it is admitte... Read More about 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial.
Desert Island (2015)
Book
James, S. J. (Ed.). Desert Island. Insitute of Advanced Study
Books for Boys: Literacy, Nation and the First World War (2015)
Book
James, S. J. (Ed.). Books for Boys: Literacy, Nation and the First World War. Insitute of Advanced Study
Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2016). Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings. Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy, 29(2), 213-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12091It is often assumed that to say that nature should be protected for the sake of human beings just is to say that it should be protected because it is a means to one or more anthropocentric ends. I argue that this assumption is false. In some contexts... Read More about Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings.
Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction (2015)
Book
James, S. P. (2015). Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction. Polity PressClimate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans bel... Read More about Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction.