By Robert Frodeman
Utilizing a unified imaginative and prescient of geology, inclusive of equivalent elements geo-poetry, geo-politics, geo-theology, and geo-science, Geo-Logic redraws the bounds among philosophy and the earth sciences. even supposing every one self-discipline makes the most important contributions to modern environmental matters, neither will satisfy its strength until eventually it transforms itself via enticing the opposite. This publication bargains examples of ways to narrate environmental philosophy to technology, public coverage, and actual international difficulties, and exhibits what's epistemologically specific approximately clinical paintings and the way to reply to the cultural dynamics which are pulling those matters into the general public sphere. Frodeman advocates humanizing the earth sciences and bringing philosophy into the sector.
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