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White matter changes in patients with hypoxic amnesia
No full textDi Paola M, Moscatelli A, Bigler ED, Caltagirone C, Carlesimo GA. White matter changes in patients with hypoxic amnesia. Neurocase. 2011;17(1):46-56
"Climate Change and Moral Corruption"
Full text linkIn “A Perfect Moral Storm”, S. Gardiner claims that "the peculiar features of the climate change problem pose substantial obstacles to our ability to make the hard choices necessary to address it. Climate change is a perfect moral storm. One consequence of this is that, even if difficult ethical questions could be answered, we might still find it difficult to act. For the storm makes us extremely vulnerable to moral corruption". Here I comment on the notion of moral corruption. In particular, I discuss the issues of who is susceptible to it and of what sort of problem moral corruption is
Antropocene e democrazia
No full textThe Anthropocene and its problems unveil and exacerbate some vulnerabilities of
democratic theory and practice, particular in its liberal version. Both liberal democracies’
failures and their most promising attempts at managing these problems expose them to
powerful legitimacy challenges. The Anthropocene is thus for liberal democracies what
Scylla and Carybdis were for Ulysses and his crew: a predicament whereby whichever
direction is chosen will lead to serious difficulties and risks, and possibly to significant damages and losses
Virtues for the Anthropocene
No full textThe paper discusses some difficulties that life in Anthropocene poses to our ethical thinking. It describes the sort of ethical task that individuals find themselves confronting when dealing with the planetary environmental quandaries that characterise the new epoch. It then asks what, given the situation, would count as environmentally virtuous ways of looking at and going about our lives, and how relevant virtues can be developed. It is argued that the practice of gardening is distinctively conducive to that objective. Finally, some garden virtues that will be of special importance in the Anthropocene, but have so far been largely neglected by environmental ethicists, are listed and described
Giardini Globali: una filosofia dell'ambientalismo urbano
No full textA monograph on the role of gardens in environmental ethics and their promises for urban environmentalis
Environmental Stewardship, Moral Psychology, and Gardens
No full textVast and pervasive environmental problems such as climate change and bi-odiversity loss call every individual to active stewardship. Their magnitudeand causal and strategic structures, however, pose powerful challenges to our moral psychology. Stewardship may feel overburdening, and appear hopeless.This may lead to widespread moral and political disengagement. This article proposes a resolve to garden practices as a way out of that danger, and de-scribes the ways in which it will motivate individuals to so act as to coordinate
on behavioural patterns that will signicantly alleviate grave, but seemingly
distant and intractable environmental quandaries
Sostenibilità come giustizia applicata
No full textThe paper explores the convergences and divergences between the notion of sustainability and that of social and global justice, arguing that the former surpass the latter, but not by much
Il clima dell’Antropocene: disamina realistica di alcune sfide di una nuova epoca
No full textThe chapter systematizes and describes the ecological, conceptual, normative, and policy challenges of the Anthropocene, with a focus on the climatic transformations underway. Il looks at various scales of action and inaction, and suggests that ideal theorizing may be significantly out of step with some defining circumstances of the new epoc
Lasciare la Terra. Considerazioni etiche sulla colonizzazione di ambienti extraterrestri
No full textReflections on the value of Earth and Humanity, and the ethics of the New Space Ag
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