Philosophy of Nature

<p>The missing part in today's environmental debate is an in-depth understanding of the idea of Naturalness and what if anything it denotes. This book elucidates what we mean by natural in general and works out an original<i> </i>concept of naturalness that can serve as a guide to understand the real limits of our manipulations in times where our powers to rearrange nature reaches new levels continually. Arguing that naturalness can be understood in light of a dispositional ontology the book shows that it is possible for someone to maintain that there is a right and a wrong way to manipulate nature. </p>