Philosophical Dialogues

The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy_the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess's vision, which has deepened and broadened to include third world and feminist perspectives. Philosophical Dialogues is an essential addition to the literature on environmental philosophy.

CONTRIBUTORS: Peder Anker, Per Ariansen, Alfred J. Ayer, Murray Bookchin, Andrew Brennan, Baird Callicott, John Clark, Bill Devall, Fons Elders, Paul Feyerabend, Warwick Fox, William C. French, Harold Glasser, Ramachandra Guha, Patsy Hallen, Stephan Harding, Genevieve Lloyd, Andrew Mclaughlin, Ivar Mysterud, Arne Naess, Bryan Norton, Val Plumwood, Peter Reed, Kirkpatrick Sale, Arid Salleh, Karen Warren, Richard A. Watson, Jon Wetlesen, Nina Witoszek, and Michael E. Zimmerman.

Nina Witoszek is assistant professor at the European University in Florence, and at the Center for Development and the Environment, 'slo University. She is the author of many books, including Nature Mythologies: From the Eddas to Ecophilosophy (Blackwell) and the editor of Rethinking Deep Ecology and Culture and Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Andrew Brennan is professor of philosophy and head of the philosophy department at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Conditions of Identity (Oxford) and Environmental Philosophies (Routledge, forthcoming), and the editor of The Ethics of the Environment.