Simon P. James

 

Department of Philosophy, Durham University

 

Academia.edu

 

PHILOSOPHICAL INTERESTS

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§  Environmental philosophy and the philosophy of natural history

§  Phenomenology and the environment (drawing, in particular, on the works of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty)

§  Buddhist philosophy

§  Ethics (especially environmental virtue ethics)

 

 

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

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Books

 

  1. Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction (Polity, forthcoming in 2014).
  2. The Presence of Nature: A Study in Phenomenology and Environmental Philosophy (Palgrave-Macmillan, December 2009). (Extract)
  3. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). (Co-author: David E. Cooper.) (Reviews)
  4. Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). (Reviews)

 

Edited volumes

 

1.      Buddhism and the Environment, a special issue of the journal Contemporary Buddhism (2007) (co-edited with David E. Cooper).

 

Journal articles

 

  1. ‘Philistinism and the Preservation of Nature’, Philosophy (forthcoming in 2013).
  2. ‘Finding – and Failing to Find – Meaning in Nature’, Environmental Values (forthcoming in 2013).
  3. ‘For the Sake of a Stone? Inanimate Things and the Demands of Morality’, Inquiry 54 (4) (2011), 384-397.
  4. ‘Phenomenology and the Problem of Animal Minds’, Environmental Values 18 (1) (2009), 33-49.
  5. ‘How Green is Buddhism?’ SHAP: World Religions in Education 2008/2009, 12-3.
  6. ‘Against Holism: Rethinking Buddhist Environmental Ethics’, Environmental Values 16 (4) (2007), 447-61.
  7. ‘Merleau-Ponty, Metaphysical Realism and the Natural World’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (4) (2007), 501-19.
  8. ‘Human Virtues and Natural Values’, Environmental Ethics 28 (2006), 339-54.
  9. ‘Buddhism and the Ethics of Species Conservation’, Environmental Values 15 (2006), 85-97.
  10. ‘Awakening to Language in Heidegger and Zen’, International Journal of Field Being 2 (2) (2005).
  11.  ‘Zen Buddhism and the Intrinsic Value of Nature’, Contemporary Buddhism 4 (2) (2003), 143-57.
  12. ‘Heidegger and the Role of the Body in Environmental Virtue’, The Trumpeter 18 (1) (2002), 1-9.
  13. ‘Thing-centered Holism in Buddhism, Heidegger and Deep Ecology’, Environmental Ethics 22 (2000), 359-75.

 

Book chapters

 

  1. ‘Conserving Nature’s Meanings’, E. Brady and P. Phemister (eds.) Embodied Values and the Environment (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012), 31-40.
  2. ‘The Foundations of Buddhist Environmental Ethics: A New Approach’, in The Buddhist Approach to the Environmental Crisis: Proceedings of the International Buddhist Conference on the United Nations Day of Vesak Celebrations (2009), 60-7.
  3. ‘The Possibility of an Environmental Virtue Ethic’, Proceedings of the 2004 Durham-Bergen Postgraduate Philosophy Seminar Vol.II (2004), 97-102.

 

Contributions to reference works

 

  1. ‘Buddhism and Environmental Ethics’, in A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming in 2013).
  2. ‘Asian Philosophy’, in The Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Macmillan Reference, USA, 2009).
  3. ‘Environmental and ecological philosophy’ in Honderich, T. (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2nd ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 255-56.
  4. ‘Martin Heidegger’ in Palmer, J.A. (ed.) 50 Environmental Thinkers (London: Routledge, 2001), 189-94.

 

Book reviews

 

1.      Brady, E. Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (Edinburgh University Press) - for The British Journal of Aesthetics 45 (2005).

2.      Harvey, P. An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics (Cambridge University Press) – for Philosophy 76, no.295 (January 2001).

3.      Kaza, S. and Kraft, K. Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism (Shambhala) - for Environmental Values 10, no.2 (2001).

 

 

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