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Thinking Through Climate Change

A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene

By: Adam Briggle

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Thinking Through Climate Change

A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene

By: Adam Briggle

In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene (the age of humanity). Briggle offers a framework to help us understand the many perspectives and policies on climate change. He does so through the idea that energy is a paradox: changing sameness. From this perennial philosophical mystery, he argues that a high-energy civilization is bound to create more and more paradoxes. These paradoxes run like fissures through our orthodox picture of energy as the capacity to do work and control fate. Climate change is the accumulation of these fissures and the question is whether we can sustain technoscientific control and economic growth. It may be that our world is about change radically, imploring us to start thinking heterodox thoughts.

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Springer Nature

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3030535878

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9783030535872

A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas

By: Adam Briggle

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A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas

By: Adam Briggle

Winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Awards Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize From the front lines of the fracking debate, a “field philosopher” explores one of our most divisive technologies. When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in Denton—the first Texas town to challenge the oil and gas industry. On his journey to learn about fracking and its effects, he leaped from the ivory tower into the fray. In beautifully narrated chapters, Briggle brings us to town hall debates and neighborhood meetings where citizens wrestle with issues few fully understand. Is fracking safe? How does it affect the local economy? Why are bakeries prohibited in neighborhoods while gas wells are permitted next to playgrounds? In his quest for answers Briggle meets people like Cathy McMullen. Her neighbors’ cows asphyxiated after drinking fracking fluids, and her orchard was razed to make way for a pipeline. Cathy did not consent to drilling, but those who profited lived far out of harm’s way. Briggle's first instinct was to think about fracking—deeply. Drawing on philosophers from Socrates to Kant, but also on conversations with engineers, legislators, and industry representatives, he develops a simple theory to evaluate fracking: we should give those at risk to harm a stake in the decisions we make, and we should monitor for and correct any problems that arise. Finding this regulatory process short-circuited, with government and industry alike turning a blind eye to symptoms like earthquakes and nosebleeds, Briggle decides to take action. Though our field philosopher is initially out of his element—joining fierce activists like "Texas Sharon," once called the "worst enemy" of the oil and gas industry—his story culminates in an underdog victory for Denton, now nationally recognized as a beacon for citizens' rights at the epicenter of the fracking revolution.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1631490087

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Thinking Through Climate Change

A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene

By: Adam Briggle

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A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene

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Ethics and Science

An Introduction

By: Adam Briggle,Carl Mitcham

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Ethics and Science

An Introduction

By: Adam Briggle,Carl Mitcham

This book explores ethical issues at the interfaces of science, policy, religion and technology, cultivating the skills for critical analysis.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521878411

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Socrates Tenured

The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy

By: Robert Frodeman,Adam Briggle

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Socrates Tenured

The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy

By: Robert Frodeman,Adam Briggle

Professional philosophy has strayed so far from its roots that Socrates wouldn’t stand a chance of landing tenure in most departments today. After all, he spent his time talking with people from all walks of life rather than being buried in the secondary literature and polishing arguments for peer-reviewed journals. Yet somehow this hypertrophy styles itself ‘real’ philosophy. Socrates Tenured diagnoses the pathologies of contemporary philosophy and shows how the field can be revitalized. The first part of the book sketches the crisis facing philosophy in a neoliberal age and traces its roots back to the 20th-century move to turn philosophy into an academic discipline. In the second part the authors look at various attempts from applied ethics to their own brand of ‘field philosophy’ to confront the resulting problems of insularity and societal irrelevance. Part three connects this evaluation of philosophy with wider discussions in the politics of knowledge about the impacts of research on society. The final chapters consider both what impacts philosophy might have and what a philosophy of impact might look like.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783483113

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9781783483112

A Field Guide to Climate Change

Understanding the Problems

By: Adam Briggle

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A Field Guide to Climate Change

Understanding the Problems

By: Adam Briggle

This book is a guide for understanding climate change. It takes an interdisciplinary approach because climate change is simultaneously a matter of science, engineering, economics, politics, culture, ethics, and more. A Field Guide to Climate Change thus follows the contours of climate change as it appears in the world—as a tangle of problems. Briggle presents climate literacy as a form of problem-posing by offering a set of tools for understanding how problems get framed, debated, and resolved. Through developing climate literacy, students gain the ability to think critically about how facts are constructed and mobilized in the pursuit of values.

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Broadview Press

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1770489592

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Ethics and Science

An Introduction

By: Adam Briggle,Carl Mitcham

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An Introduction

By: Adam Briggle,Carl Mitcham

This book explores ethical issues at the interfaces of science, policy, religion and technology, cultivating the skills for critical analysis.

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