A Radical Pragmatist Ecologism: William James, Romanticism and Environmental Values

Piers H. G. Stephens (University of Georgia)

Background

Piers H.G. Stephens (PhD University of Manchester) is an environmental philosopher with a background in the history of ideas in moral and political philosophy as well as in literature. He serves as the philosophy reviews editor of the international interdisciplinary academic journal Environmental Values and is a member of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, the American Philosophical Association, the Society for Advancement of American Philosophy, and the William James Society. His primary research interests center upon the environmental turn in political and moral philosophy but extend into the philosophical mainstream, particularly in relation to the history of ideas with special concern for ideas of freedom, nature and the good in the liberal and pragmatist traditions.

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