Department of Philosophy

Zack, Naomi, 1944- 2006-05-03 2006-05-03 2006-04 Homeland Security Affairs. Vol. 2, No. 1, Article 5, April 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2639 15 p. article for an E-publication. Philosophers have traditionally written from the perspective of ordinary people and they are as vulnerable to fear as other members of the public. Academic philosophers can contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of homeland security and disaster studies through extensions of social contract theory from political philosophy, and applications of moral systems. The idea of a state of nature is relevant to government’s role in disaster preparation, response and planning, because disasters often result in a second state of nature. All three of the main ethical systems of virtue ethics, deontology, and consequentialism, are relevant to disaster-related situations in ways that suggest the importance of being able to combine all three. Both the applications of political philosophy and moral theory can be augmented by John Rawls’s idea of distributive justice and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s idea of the common good. Finally, the inevitability of human mortality, as emphasized by existentialist philosophers, can create a wider perspective on disaster. 2468 bytes 13778253 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) Philosophy and Disaster Article

Zack, Naomi, 1944- 2006-03-28T23:50:22Z 2006-03-28T23:50:22Z 2002 Just ecological integrity : the ethics of maintaining planetary life. Ed. Peter Miller and Laura Westra. 2002 (69-74). 0742512851 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2520 5 p. 4074048 bytes application/pdf en_US Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Human Values as a Source for Sustaining the Environment Book chapter

Mann, Bonnie 2006-03-12T03:36:28Z 2006-03-12T03:36:28Z 2002 The subject of care : feminist perspectives on dependency. Ed. Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen K. Feder. 2002 (348-368) 0742513629 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2437 33 p. Appears as a chapter in The subject of care : feminist perspectives on dependency. 1160 bytes 19724541 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Dependence on Place, Dependence in Place Article