Professor Jim Cheney

PUBLICATIONS

Papers

“Tricksters (in the Shadow of Civilization),” forthcoming in Joe Sheridan and Darlene Clover, eds., Wilderness and Storytelling: Indigenous Epic as North American Culture.” New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

“The Moral Epistemology of First Nations Stories,” forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Environmental Ethics.

“Truth and Native American Epistemology” (with Lee Hester), forthcoming in a special issue on the question “How important is truth to knowledge and epistemology?” of Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy.

“Truth, Knowledge, and the Wild World,” forthcoming in Environment and Belief: The Placing of Knowledge, edited by Christopher Preston, State University of New York (SUNY) Press.

“Ceremonial Worlds and Environmental Sanity” (with Lee Hester), in a special issue on “Eco/Theory” of Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics 13 (Spring 2000): 77-87.

“Indigenous Worlds and Callicott’s Land Ethic” (with Lee Hester,  Dennis McPherson, and Annie Booth), Environmental Ethics 22 (Fall 2000): 273-90.

“The Journey Home,” in Anthony Weston, editor, An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 141-67.

“Environmental Ethics as Environmental Etiquette: Toward an Ethics-Based Epistemology in Environmental Philosophy” (with Anthony Weston), Environmental Ethics 21 (Summer 1999): 115-34.

“Universal Consideration: An Epistemological Map of the Terrain,” Environmental Ethics 20 (Fall 1998): 265-77.

“Rivers of Thought:  The Confluence of Aboriginal and Western Philosophy,” in Sylvia O'Meara and Douglas A. West, editors, Indigenous Learning: Proceedings from the Second Biennial Aboriginal Peoples' Conference, October 18-20, 1996 (Thunder Bay: Aboriginal Resource and Research Centre, 1998).

“Naturalizing the Problem of Evil,” Environmental Ethics 19 (Fall 1997): 299-313.

“The Dusty World:  Wildness and Higher Laws in Thoreau's Walden,” Ethics and the Environment 1 (Fall 1996): 75-90.

“Sacred Land,” in Bob Jickling, editor, A Colloquium on Environment, Ethics, and Education (Whitehorse:  Yukon College, 1996).

“Environmental Etiquette/Environmental Practice:  American Indian Challenges to Environmental Ethics,” in Max Oelschlaeger, editor, The Company of Others:   Essays in Celebration of Paul Shepard (Durango, Colorado:  Kivakí Press, 1995).

“Ecosystem Ecology and Metaphysical Ecology:  A Case Study” (with Karen J. Warren), Environ­mental Ethics 15 (Summer 1993):  99-116.

“Intrinsic Value in Environmental Ethics:  Beyond Subjectivism and Objectivism,” The Monist 75 (April 1992):  227-35.

“Callicott’s ‘Metaphysics of Morals’,” Environmental Ethics 13 (Winter 1991):  311-25.

“In the Shadow of Ancient Ruins:  Hellenism and Gnosticism in Contemporary Environmental Ethics,” Environmental History Review 15 (Summer 1991):  31-54.

“Reflections on Spirituality and Myth,” The Trumpeter:  Journal of Ecosophy 8 (Spring 1991):  58-62.

“Ecological Feminism and Ecosystem Ecology” (with Karen J. Warren), Hypatia 6 (Spring 1991):  179-97.

“‘The Waters of Separation’:  Myth and Ritual in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6 (Spring, 1990):  41-63.

“Nature and the Theorizing of Difference,” Contemporary Philoso­phy 13 (Jan/Feb 1990): 1-14.

“The NeoStoicism of Radical Environmentalism,” Environ­mental Ethics 11 (Winter 1989):  293-325.

“Postmodern Environmental Ethics:  Ethics as Bioregio­nal Narra­tive,” Environmental Ethics 11 (Summer 1989):  117-34.

“Eco-Feminism and Deep Ecology,” Environmental Ethics 9 (Summer 1987):  115‑45.

“The Intentionality of Desire and the Intentions of People,” Mind 87 (1978):  517-532.

Anthologized Articles

“‘The Waters of Separation’: Myth and Ritual in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” forthcoming in Elizabeth Thomason, editor, Nonfiction Classics for Students, volume 1 (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2001).

“Ecological Feminism and Ecosystem Ecology” (with Karen Warren), forthcoming in Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions, edited by Holmes Rolston, III and Andrew Light (Blackwell, August 2001).

“Callicott’s Last Stand” (expanded version of “Indigenous Worlds and Callicott’s Land Ethic”— with Lee Hester, Dennis McPherson, and Annie Booth), forthcoming in Wayne Ouderkirk and Jim Hall, editors, Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, August 2001).

“Postmodern Environmental Ethics:  Ethics as Bioregional Narrative,” in Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman, editors, Memory, Identity, Community:  The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences (Albany, NY:  SUNY Press, 1997).

“Ecological Feminism and Ecosystem Ecology” (with Karen J. Warren), in Karen Warren, editor, Ecological Feminist Philosophies (Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1996).

“Postmodern Environmental Ethics:  Ethics as Bioregional Narrative,” in Max Oelschlaeger, editor, Postmodernism and Environmental Ethics (Albany, NY:  SUNY Press, 1995).

“Ecological Feminism and Ecosystem Ecology” (with Karen J. Warren), in Andrew Brennan, editor, The Ethics of the Environ­ment (Alder­shot, Hampshire, U.K.:  Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1995).

“Nature/Theory/Difference:  Ecofeminism and the Reconstruction of Environ­mental Ethics”  (revision of “Nature and the Theoriz­ing of Difference”), in Karen J. Warren, editor, Ecological Feminism (New York:  Routledge, 1994).

“Postmodern Environmental Ethics:  Ethics as Bioregio­nal Narra­tive” (revise­d), in Susan Armstrong and Richard Botzler, editors, Under­standing the Environment, first edition (New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1993).

Review Essays and Reviews

Review of Anthony Weston, Back to Earth:  Tomorrow's Environmentalism (Temple University Press, 1994); Environmental Ethics 18 (Spring 1996):  91-94.

Review of Calvin Luther Martin, In the Spirit of the Earth:  Rethinking History and Time (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992); Environmental Ethics 16 (Fall 1994):  321-27

Review Essay on Arne Naess, Ecology, Community and Lifestyle (Cambri­dge University Press, 1989); Environ­mental Ethics 13 (Fall 1991):  263-73.

Review Essay on David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer, editors, Dwelling, Place, and Environment (Columbia University Press, 1989) and E. V. Walter, Placeways (The University of North Carolina Press, 1988), Phenomenology and the Human Sciences 15 (September 1990):  6-24.