Negotiating Environmental Relationships: Why Language Matters to Environmental Philosophy
Description:
The medium of language is important to environmental philosophy, and more specifically, to the establishment and understanding of environmental relationships. The differences between animal and human language point to our unique semantic range, which results from our neuro-linguistic process of signification. An examination of the linguistic implications of the problem of nature and the tenets of semiotics challenges the idea of a clean word to world fit. Because signs are the medium in which m…
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Date:
December 2003
Creator:
Martin, Vernon J.