Ontologies of Nature

Gerard Kuperus is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World (Routledge 2016), as well as numerous articles in Continental Philosophy focusing on philosophy of nature. He has held the position of Davies Professor (2015) at the University of San Francisco.Marjolein Oele is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of a variety of articles and book chapters that intertwine Aristotle’s philosophy with topics and figures in Continental Philosophy. Her book E-Co-Affectivity is forthcoming. She currently holds the NEH Chair at the University of San Francisco (2016-2017).

• Part I. Greek Philosophies of “Physis”.- Chapter 1. Physis in Empedocles (Michael Shaw).- Chapter 2. The Ambivalence of Eros: Plato’s Natural Beginning(s) (Joshua Hayes).- Chapter 3. Folding Nature Back Upon Itself: Aristotle and the Rebirth of Physis (Marjolein Oele).- Part II. The Modern Turn in Nature.- Chapter 4. Kant’s ‘Other Nature (Angelica Nuzzo).- Chapter 5. Hegel’s Anti-Ontology of Nature (Sebastian Rand).- Chapter 6. Novalis, Nature and the Absolute (Jane Kneller).- Part III. Phenomenologists and Post-Modern Thinkers on Nature.- Chapter 7. An Ecology of the Future (Gerard Kuperus).- Chapter 8. Nature (or Not) In Heidegger (Nancy Holland).- Chapter 9. Precarious Communities: Towards a Phenomenology of Extinction (Brett Buchanan).- Chapter 10. Stratification, Dependence, and Nonanthropocentrism: Nicolai Hartmann’s Critical Ontology (Keith Peterson).- Chapter 11. Naturalism, Estrangement, and Resistance: On the Lived Senses of Nature (Ted Toadvine).- Chapter 12. Given to Bewilderment, Hand to Limb (Peter Steeves).- Chapter 13. When Washing Rice, Know that the Water is Your Own Life: An Essay on Dōgen in the Age of Fast Food (Jason Wirth).