Philosophy of Ecology as a Specific and Direct Method of Ecological and Humanistic Research and Management

Lubov Vladyková

doi:10.14712/18023061.498

Abstract

The philosophy of ecology is an intersectional, multi-discursive foundation, which covers a vast area characterised by an extensive research agenda, connecting a number of established scientific disciplines. It is our aim to highlight the interdisciplinary character of the problem under discussion, as well as the fact that different conceptions of the philosophy of ecology would be hard to sustain and hard to respect if they did not respond to the findings of latest research, be it in the field of ecology or in the field of philosophy. In order to be able to envisage a future for the Earth that would be sustainable in the long term, we need knowledge and we need to internalise a method for evaluating information, which would enable us to discard irrelevant information in times of critical change.

Highlights

Filozofická reflexia ekológie predstavuje prienikovú polydiskurzívnu bázu – čo značne rozširuje priestor s rozsiahlou výskumnou agendou, prechádzajúcou vedecky etablovanými oblasťami
We can no longer understand the natural world merely as an arena in which human interactions take place, or as a value-neutral vector connecting the human moral agent with the non-human patient. It is a nature studied by natural science, and this is where the study of natural science from the point of view of the social sciences comes into play, as such study implies that the nature described by biology, ecology, chemistry, physics, etc., is an entity which we approach through practical, socially-organised activity
This interest is complicated by the fact that ecologists do not agree on the answer to the underlying question: What is the domain of ecology? Many ecologists prefer a narrower, restrictive definition of ecology, which focuses on the behaviour of non-human organisms in natural environments (McIntosh, 1985; Kingsland, 2005)

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Introduction

Filozofická reflexia ekológie predstavuje prienikovú polydiskurzívnu bázu – čo značne rozširuje priestor s rozsiahlou výskumnou agendou, prechádzajúcou vedecky etablovanými oblasťami. The philosophy of ecology can define its fundamental problems as a set of metaphysical and epistemological questions.

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