Dr Val Plumwood, one of Australia's original and creative environmental philosophers died from a heart attack at her home, Plumwood Mountain in NSW on 29th February 2008. Her lifetime contribution to philosophy, feminism and democracy is sincerely articulated by Freya Mathews (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) @[...]
Many philosophers are concerned with a better way of reasoning other than the adversarial and hierarchical modes that have dominated our Western culture. Val Plumwood's professional and personal quest was to explain and overcome this institutionalised flawed reasoning. Her convincing critique of western philosophy in her 'Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason' provides the foundation for her arguments in the early chapters of this book against our contemporary rational justifications of our androcentric and anthropocentric hegemony over nature, women and indigenous cultures. Plumwood then goes on to construct an argument for a better way to reason that builds on and acknowledges our existential indebtedness to what has been subjugated in order to live fulfilled lives in and with nature.
For a pod cast recently aired on Australia's national broadcaster see Radio National program about Val Plumwood @[...]
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