Postnatural Environmentalism – Ethical Emancipation of Artifacts in Environmental Philosophy
Postnaturalny enwironmentalizm – etyczna emancypacja artefaktów w filozofii środowiskowej

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.320

About author

Magdalena Hoły-Łuczaj
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5860-3638
University of Information Technolog and Management in Rzeszów

Key words

Vogel, postnatural environmentalism, artifacts, ethical extensionism

Abstract

In Thinking Like a Mall, Steven Vogel criticizes various trends in environmental philosophy for excluding artifacts from the scope of their interest as metaphysically and ethically insignificant beings. Vogel’s postnatural environmentalism opposes this tendency and calls for revisiting the metaphysical and ethical status of artifacts. The article reconstructs Vogels’s argumentation and indicates main problems which are related to recognizing usable things as metaphysically and ethically inferior.

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