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SG – Ecological Philosophy of a Threatened Planet
A radical change in our thinking about the Earth is needed, argues philosopher Vincent Blok in his book From World to Earth (Boom: 2022).
About Ecological Philosophy of a Threatened Planet
For a long time, we thought of our planet as a reliable base, but the Earth is now in danger of becoming uninhabitable. Climate change is turning our world upside down. The world is no longer the stable foundation we long took for granted, and our thinking is challenged to form new concepts for our changing world and our relationship with nature, each other, and the earth. This evening focuses on the importance of a new eco-philosophy for our endangered planet.
About lecture series Three Key Concepts - Recycling, Earth, Commons
Do the ecological crises force us to tell alternative views on our place and role on this planet and our doing on it and understanding of it? The right story? The whole story? The true story? Three talks about key-concepts in our Wageningen disciplines. Philosophical-Ecological narratives about the ‘things’ we care about at WUR.
About Vincent Blok
Vincent Blok (1970) is a Dutch philosopher working as professor at the Wageningen University. He is also scientific director of the 4TU Centre for Ethics of Technology, a collaboration of the four Technical Universities in the Netherlands. In 2005 he received his PhD degree in philosophy at Leiden University with a specialisation in philosophy of technology. From 2006-2010, he was CEO of an international research institute in the field of sustainable agriculture, nutrition and health care. Together with seven PhD candidates and four Post-docs, he reflects on the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology. Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of philosophical Method (Routledge, 2019), The Critique of Management. Toward a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management (Routledge, 2021), From World to Earth. Philosophical Ecology of a threatened Planet (Boom, 2022 (in Dutch). Blok published over hundred articles in disciplinary philosophy journals like Environmental Values, Business Ethics Quarterly, Synthese and Philosophy & Technology, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Journal of Cleaner Production, Public understanding of Science and Journal of Responsible Innovation.
