Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension: In Celebration of Erazim Kohák: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, cartea 195

I. The Symposium.- The natural and the supernatural in human nature: Hegel on the soul.- Whose nature? Which morality? On Kohák’s moral sense of nature.- Whose nature? Which morality? A response.- Monism, but not through reductionism.- Is there a Buddhist philosophy of nature?.- Aristotelian and Newtonian models in Hegel’s philosophy of nature.- Yin and yang: the natural dimension of evil.- Human nature and the nature of time: a Nietzschean metaphor and its consequences.- The contingency of nature.- Theological reflections on the nature of nature: revolution, reformation, restoration.- Remarks on human nature in Plato.- The nature of the gods and early Greek poetic thought.- The relationship between physics and philosophy.- Ecology and the claims for a science-based ethics.- II. Selected Essays of Erazim Kohák.- Phenomenology and ecology: dependence and co-dependency.- Human rights and nature’s rightness.- Transcendental experience, everyday philosophy.- Should auld acquaintance be forgot ...?.- Varieties of ecological experience.- Nature as presence and experience.- The true and the good: reflections on the primacy of practical reason.- The ecological dilemma: ethical categories in a biocentric world.- Creation’s orphans: toward a metaphysics of artifacts.- III.- Erazim Kohák: Bibliography.- Index of Names.