Considering De-Extinction: Zombie Arguments and the Walking (And Flying and Swimming) Dead

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Abstract

De-extinction raises anew ontological and epistemological problems that have engaged environmental philosophers for decades. This essay re-examines these issues to provide a fuller understanding—and a critique—of de-extinction. One of my claims is that de-extinction as a philosophical problem merely recycles old issues and debates in the field (hence, “zombie” arguments). De-extinction is a project that arises out of the assertion of human domination of the natural world. Thus the acceptance of de-extinction as an environmental policy is an expression of a human-nature relationship that disvalues the natural world and subjugates nature completely to the interests of humanity.

Identifier

85130268170 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Ethics Policy and Environment

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2022.2071550

e-ISSN

21550093

ISSN

21550085

First Page

81

Last Page

103

Issue

2

Volume

25

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