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Papers by Thomas Heyd
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 1995
Recently indigenous knowledge has received increasing academic (see, eg, Warren et al., 1993; Bro... more Recently indigenous knowledge has received increasing academic (see, eg, Warren et al., 1993; Brokensha et al., 1980; G6mez-Pompa and Kaus, 1992) and institutional (see World Commission on Environment and Develop-ment, 1987; Agenda 21, 1992) attention. 1 The study, ...
Environmental Values, 2006
... 9 I owe this insight to John D. Ambrose (Letter John D. Ambrose to Thomas Heyd, 26 May 2005 .... more ... 9 I owe this insight to John D. Ambrose (Letter John D. Ambrose to Thomas Heyd, 26 May 2005 ... 36 Mara Miller (1998, p. 279) cautions, however, that the term ʻcollaborationʼ ʻis appro-priate only if one recognises that it implies in the garden a response or an interplay of a very ...
Environmental Values, 2004
This paper seeks to answer the question how environmental ethics is approached in Latin America. ... more This paper seeks to answer the question how environmental ethics is approached in Latin America. I begin by discussing a suitable method for interpreting the question of whether there is a culturally based ethics, given that one may focus either on theory or on actually ...
Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, 1989
John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte were important promoters of science but took opposite sides wi... more John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte were important promoters of science but took opposite sides with respect to the possibility of a science of psychology. This difference between them is explained by noting Mill's phenomenalist and Comte's realist commitments, as well as their ...
British Journal of Aesthetics, 2001
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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2003
Marks on rocks, painted, engraved, or sculpted, can be found worldwide, wherever there are suit-a... more Marks on rocks, painted, engraved, or sculpted, can be found worldwide, wherever there are suit-able surfaces. In modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists increasingly have begun studying such marks in relation to their material and social contexts, insofar as available. ...
British Journal of Aesthetics, 1991
RAT SNIFFY as prime performer of Rick Gibson's 'rat piece' {Free Art Lesson, 1990)... more RAT SNIFFY as prime performer of Rick Gibson's 'rat piece' {Free Art Lesson, 1990) recently1 made the headlines when media and animal activists found out that the script included the annihilation, compliments of a 25 kg. concrete block, of Sniffy. Disregarding here the ...
Ethics, Place & Environment, 2007
Industrial interventions in the landscape leave their imprint in a permanent way, but there remai... more Industrial interventions in the landscape leave their imprint in a permanent way, but there remain options on how to deal with land even at that point in time. In this essay, three alternatives are considered: leaving such sites as they are, restoring them to a condition resembling their original state, or transforming them into artworks. The author focuses in particular on the third option in order to determine to what degree it is possible for artistic reclamation to redeem such blights in the landscape. … the work of art is beautifulto the degree that it opposesits own order to that of reality … .Herbert Marcuse, 1978, p. 64
Ethics, Place & Environment, 2005
ABSTRACT In order to develop sustainable relationships with the natural environment it is necessa... more ABSTRACT In order to develop sustainable relationships with the natural environment it is necessary to focus on approaches that may yield workable models of sustainability. Here I sample a few approaches from Latin America that point toward a promising model of sustainability. I ...
Quaternary International, 2007
As papers presented at recent meetings on rapid natural change held in Whitehorse, Canada, and Co... more As papers presented at recent meetings on rapid natural change held in Whitehorse, Canada, and Como, Italy have amply demonstrated, physical science is coming to an increasingly clear understanding of natural environmental changes, their causes, and their effects on the landscape. Progress similarly is being made in the social sciences on the determination of human responses to those natural events, both in historical and prehistorical times. It remains to be seen what practical lessons people in contemporary Western societies may draw from those research results. My proposal is that appropriate responses to drastic natural events may depend on prevalent cultural patterns in a society or human group. In the following I briefly discuss the notion of vulnerability to rapid natural changes, and some approaches proposed to deal with it. Next, I discuss a case of particular cultural responses to rapid natural change drawn from the historical ecology of the Yukon and Alaska. I close by noting some consequences of my analysis.
Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, 1999
British Journal of Aesthetics, 2008
RONALD Moore makes a strong case for a multilayered model of the aesthetics of natural beauty, ta... more RONALD Moore makes a strong case for a multilayered model of the aesthetics of natural beauty, taking his bearings from a rich theoretical context, both contemporary and ancient. His aim is to set out what makes for the difference between natural beauty and other beauty ...
Dialogue-canadian Philosophical Review, 2000
Dialogue-canadian Philosophical Review, 1999
History of European Ideas, 1994
History of European Ideas, 1993
Recently it has been argued that the attempts to preserve nature in parks make no sense because s... more Recently it has been argued that the attempts to preserve nature in parks make no sense because such attempts to protect nature inevitably turn it into an artifact. This type of objection gains in strength when we become aware of the degree of management and continuous restauration that such areas require in order to maintain the diversity of species and landscapes for which those spaces are protected. In this paper I analyze the concepts of nature, culture and heritage, and propose that management and restoration of natural areas are not necessarily at odds with the objective of preserving nature once the relation between nature and culture is properly understood.
Journal of Molecular Structure, 1983
The infrared spectra (4000−80 cm−1) of the complexes trans-[PtX2(C2H4)L] [X Cl, Br; L NH3, py... more The infrared spectra (4000−80 cm−1) of the complexes trans-[PtX2(C2H4)L] [X Cl, Br; L NH3, pyridine (py), pyridine-N-oxide (pyO), aniline (an) and imidazole (Him)] and the Raman spectrum of [PtCl2 (C2H4)py] have been investigated. Assignments for the internal ligand modes and metal-ligand vibrations are deduced from the band shifts caused by deuteration of coordinated ethylene and of the ligands L. The present assignments are compared with those previously proposed.
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 1995
Recently indigenous knowledge has received increasing academic (see, eg, Warren et al., 1993; Bro... more Recently indigenous knowledge has received increasing academic (see, eg, Warren et al., 1993; Brokensha et al., 1980; G6mez-Pompa and Kaus, 1992) and institutional (see World Commission on Environment and Develop-ment, 1987; Agenda 21, 1992) attention. 1 The study, ...
Environmental Values, 2006
... 9 I owe this insight to John D. Ambrose (Letter John D. Ambrose to Thomas Heyd, 26 May 2005 .... more ... 9 I owe this insight to John D. Ambrose (Letter John D. Ambrose to Thomas Heyd, 26 May 2005 ... 36 Mara Miller (1998, p. 279) cautions, however, that the term ʻcollaborationʼ ʻis appro-priate only if one recognises that it implies in the garden a response or an interplay of a very ...
Environmental Values, 2004
This paper seeks to answer the question how environmental ethics is approached in Latin America. ... more This paper seeks to answer the question how environmental ethics is approached in Latin America. I begin by discussing a suitable method for interpreting the question of whether there is a culturally based ethics, given that one may focus either on theory or on actually ...
Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, 1989
John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte were important promoters of science but took opposite sides wi... more John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte were important promoters of science but took opposite sides with respect to the possibility of a science of psychology. This difference between them is explained by noting Mill's phenomenalist and Comte's realist commitments, as well as their ...
British Journal of Aesthetics, 2001
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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2003
Marks on rocks, painted, engraved, or sculpted, can be found worldwide, wherever there are suit-a... more Marks on rocks, painted, engraved, or sculpted, can be found worldwide, wherever there are suit-able surfaces. In modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists increasingly have begun studying such marks in relation to their material and social contexts, insofar as available. ...
British Journal of Aesthetics, 1991
RAT SNIFFY as prime performer of Rick Gibson's 'rat piece' {Free Art Lesson, 1990)... more RAT SNIFFY as prime performer of Rick Gibson's 'rat piece' {Free Art Lesson, 1990) recently1 made the headlines when media and animal activists found out that the script included the annihilation, compliments of a 25 kg. concrete block, of Sniffy. Disregarding here the ...
Ethics, Place & Environment, 2007
Industrial interventions in the landscape leave their imprint in a permanent way, but there remai... more Industrial interventions in the landscape leave their imprint in a permanent way, but there remain options on how to deal with land even at that point in time. In this essay, three alternatives are considered: leaving such sites as they are, restoring them to a condition resembling their original state, or transforming them into artworks. The author focuses in particular on the third option in order to determine to what degree it is possible for artistic reclamation to redeem such blights in the landscape. … the work of art is beautifulto the degree that it opposesits own order to that of reality … .Herbert Marcuse, 1978, p. 64
Ethics, Place & Environment, 2005
ABSTRACT In order to develop sustainable relationships with the natural environment it is necessa... more ABSTRACT In order to develop sustainable relationships with the natural environment it is necessary to focus on approaches that may yield workable models of sustainability. Here I sample a few approaches from Latin America that point toward a promising model of sustainability. I ...
Quaternary International, 2007
As papers presented at recent meetings on rapid natural change held in Whitehorse, Canada, and Co... more As papers presented at recent meetings on rapid natural change held in Whitehorse, Canada, and Como, Italy have amply demonstrated, physical science is coming to an increasingly clear understanding of natural environmental changes, their causes, and their effects on the landscape. Progress similarly is being made in the social sciences on the determination of human responses to those natural events, both in historical and prehistorical times. It remains to be seen what practical lessons people in contemporary Western societies may draw from those research results. My proposal is that appropriate responses to drastic natural events may depend on prevalent cultural patterns in a society or human group. In the following I briefly discuss the notion of vulnerability to rapid natural changes, and some approaches proposed to deal with it. Next, I discuss a case of particular cultural responses to rapid natural change drawn from the historical ecology of the Yukon and Alaska. I close by noting some consequences of my analysis.
Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, 1999
British Journal of Aesthetics, 2008
RONALD Moore makes a strong case for a multilayered model of the aesthetics of natural beauty, ta... more RONALD Moore makes a strong case for a multilayered model of the aesthetics of natural beauty, taking his bearings from a rich theoretical context, both contemporary and ancient. His aim is to set out what makes for the difference between natural beauty and other beauty ...
Dialogue-canadian Philosophical Review, 2000
Dialogue-canadian Philosophical Review, 1999
History of European Ideas, 1994
History of European Ideas, 1993
Recently it has been argued that the attempts to preserve nature in parks make no sense because s... more Recently it has been argued that the attempts to preserve nature in parks make no sense because such attempts to protect nature inevitably turn it into an artifact. This type of objection gains in strength when we become aware of the degree of management and continuous restauration that such areas require in order to maintain the diversity of species and landscapes for which those spaces are protected. In this paper I analyze the concepts of nature, culture and heritage, and propose that management and restoration of natural areas are not necessarily at odds with the objective of preserving nature once the relation between nature and culture is properly understood.
Journal of Molecular Structure, 1983
The infrared spectra (4000−80 cm−1) of the complexes trans-[PtX2(C2H4)L] [X Cl, Br; L NH3, py... more The infrared spectra (4000−80 cm−1) of the complexes trans-[PtX2(C2H4)L] [X Cl, Br; L NH3, pyridine (py), pyridine-N-oxide (pyO), aniline (an) and imidazole (Him)] and the Raman spectrum of [PtCl2 (C2H4)py] have been investigated. Assignments for the internal ligand modes and metal-ligand vibrations are deduced from the band shifts caused by deuteration of coordinated ethylene and of the ligands L. The present assignments are compared with those previously proposed.