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  • A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

    Creator:
    Bullock, Claude George, III
    Abstract:
    This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturine and the Shale Gas Extraction Process. Abstract approved Allen

  • The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

    Creator:
    West, Rex Alan, 1967-
    Abstract:
    A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
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    Masters Thesis
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    to a system of ethical values. What they advocate is a "moral framework" which I call noticing. My