Earth matters : the earth sciences, philosophy, and the claims of community

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    • Frodeman, Robert
    • Baker, Victor R.

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Earth matters : the earth sciences, philosophy, and the claims of community

Robert Frodeman, editor ; contributing authors, Victor R. Baker ... [et al.]

Prentice Hall, c2000

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

For courses in Earth Science, Physical Geology, Physical Geography, Earth System Science and Environmental Philosophy. This collection of essays by scholars in both the earth sciences and philosophy discusses the connections between the earth sciences and contemporary culture, and the changing role of the earth sciences in society.

目次

Preface. Introduction: Robert Frodeman: Shifting Plates: The New Earth Sciences. I. ROCK LOGIC: THE NATURE OF THE EARTH SCIENCES. 1. Victor R. Baker: Conversing with the Earth: The Geological Approach to Understanding. 2. Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Reading the Riddle of Nuclear Waste: Idealized Geological Models and Positivist Epistemology. 3. Bruce V. Foltz: Inhabitation and Orientation: Science beyond Disenchantment. 4. Richard S. Williams, Jr.: The Modern Earth Narrative: Natural and Human History of the Earth. 5. Christine Turner: Messages in Stone. II: THE EARTH SCIENCES IN THE LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY. 6. Brian Polkinghorn: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Managing and Resolving Environmental Conflicts. 7. Daniel Sarewitz: Science and Environmental Policy: An Excess of Objectivity. 8. Albert Borgmann: The Transparency and Contingency of the Earth. 9. Max Oelschlaeger: Natural Aliens Reconsidered: Causes, Consequences, and Cures. 10. Robert Frodeman: A Sense of the Whole: Understanding Acid Mine Drainage in the West. 11. W. Scott McLean, Eldridge M. Moores, David A. Robertson: Nature and Culture. III. PHILOSOPHIC APPROACHES TO THE EARTH. 12. Carl Mitcham: Earth Religions, Earth Sciences, Earth Philosophies. 13. Karim Benammar: Sacred Earth. 14. Alphonso Lingis: Ecological Emotions. 15. Peter Warshall: Four Ways to Look at Earth.

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