While seeking novel food sources to feed the increasing population of the globe, several
alternatives have been discussed, including algae, fungi or in vitro meat. The increasingly …

As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking
and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction. The book conceptualises …

This open access book assesses the prospects of (re) adopting organization as a pivotal
concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biological thinking and practice …

Compassionate conservation is an ethical framework proposed to instill greater compassion
for individual animals in conservation science and practice. In addition to highlighting …

In this chapter, we will address criticisms to the theory of ecological functions introduced by
Nunes-Neto et al.(2014). In doing so, we intend to further develop the theory, as a possible …

In recent years, so-called organizational accounts (OA) have emerged in theoretical biology
as a powerful, viable strategy for naturalizing teleology and normativity. In the wake of the …

The Rights of Nature movement has recently achieved significant successes in using legal
personhood as a tool for environmental protection. Perhaps most famously, the Whanganui …

The etiological account of function defines a part's/trait's function as whatever that part/trait
does and was selected for doing. Some philosophers have tried to employ this as an …

If ecological systems are functionally organised, they can possess functions or malfunctions.
Natural function would provide justification for conservationists to act for the protection of …

Biocentric egalitarianism is the view that all living things share an equal fundamental moral
status qualiving things. In light of the well-known problems with past philosophical attempts …