The Ideal of Nature: Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Disposing Nature or Disposing of It?: Reflections on the Instruction of Nature -- 2 In Defense of Living Nature: Finding Common Ground in a Medieval Tradition -- 3 Nature as Absence: The Logic of Nature and Culture in Social Contract Theory -- 4 Human Nature without Theory -- 5 Preserving the Distinction between Nature and Artifact -- 6 Why "Nature" Has No Place in Environmental Philosophy -- 7 The Appeal to Nature -- 8 Thinking Like a Mountain: Nature, Wilderness, and the Virtue of Humility