The Presence of Nature: A Study in Phenomenology and Environmental Philosophy Book

Introduction 1

1 Our Place in Nature 16

1.1 Being-in-the-world 16

1.2 Involvement 21

1.3 Inherence 30

2 Animal Minds 38

2.1 Cross-species intersubjectivity 38

2.2 The problem of animal minds 43

2.3 The lives of animals 55

3 Nature's Value and Other Obsessions 65

3.1 How nature matters 65

3.2 Technology 69

3.3 The hegemony of values - thinking 80

4 Why Conserve Nature? 90

4.1 Phenomenology and moral normativity 90

4.2 Selfless attention to nature 103

4.3 Responses to some objections 109

5 Beyond the Human 117

5.1 Realism and anthropocentrism 117

5.2 The alterity of nature 120

5.3 The transhuman nature of perception 136

Conclusion 148

Bibliography 156

Index 163