Professor Simon James' Outputs (2)

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.

Against Relational Value (2022)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2022). Against Relational Value. The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 29, 45-54. https://doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview20228645

In some environmental circles, talk of relational values is very much in fashion. It is said that we must think in terms of such values if we are to understand how such things as canyons, mangroves, and coral reefs matter to people. But that is bad a... Read More about Against Relational Value.