Environmental Skill

A much-needed fresh approach to the environmental concerns of the average person. -Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond, USA Environmental ethics often seeks to develop a suitably modern solution to the problems imposed by modernity-solutions rooted in enlightenment thinking and romanticism. Mark Coeckelbergh's Environmental Skill takes an entirely different approach, demonstrating that it is modernity that is the problem and developing an innovative form of environmental ethics that relies not on better knowledge about the world but more attentive and skill ways of being-in-the-world. -David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, USA This new book by Mark Coeckelbergh is an insightful argument for an environmental philosophy that draws on the resources of and at the same time extends work in philosophy of technology. The notion of skilled engagement with the world as this has emerged from pragmatism and phenomenology is here deepened and re-thought in an effort to understand and respond to the challenges of living in a techno-transformed nature. -Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, USA Coeckelbergh's book stands as a reminder that practicing environmental philosophy always means relating to one's environment in a certain way and that questioning and skillfully dealing with this relation remains an ongoing task. -Jochem Zwier, Human Studies Journal There is much for contemporary environmentalists to find compelling about Coeckelbergh's account, being not only an interesting analysis of the factors at work in motivation but also a convincing and optimistic approach to the problem...It is a welcome and interesting addition to a field in need of voices focused on bringing about meaningful, practical change. -Tara Kennedy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews