Environmentalism and Posthumanism

Authors

  • Paul B. Thompson Michigan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v21i2.63

Keywords:

posthumanism, environmental philosophers

Abstract

The term ‘posthumanism’ has not been promoted by many environmental philosophers, and it is not clear how the figures I discuss would react to be being characterized as posthumanist. It is more typical for advocates of the perspectives I discuss to characterize them with labels such as ‘non-anthropocentric,’ ‘ecocentric’, or ‘deep ecology.’ Yet, as I will argue, the ideas that have emerged in these lines of thought reflect philosophical commitments that could aptly be characterized as posthumanist.

Author Biography

  • Paul B. Thompson, Michigan State University

    Dr. Paul Thompson is a philosopher at Michigan State University, where he holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food and Community Ethics.

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Published

2014-05-19

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Thompson, P. (2014). Environmentalism and Posthumanism. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 21(2), 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v21i2.63