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Steven Vogel |
| Some philosophers (e.g., Eric Katz) have argued that claims for the environmental value of ecological restoration involve a kind of category mistake: although the landscapes that result from practices of restoration may look like the original natural ones they are intended to reproduce, in fact such landscapes, since they are built by humans for human purposes, can never be natural but are rather artifacts. Vogel looks more closely at what an "artifact" is, and questions the sharp distinction between nature and artifact that arguments like these presuppose. His strategy is to investigate not just the artifactuality of nature, but also what might be called the nature of artifacts - the role that nature plays within every artifact and therefore within ecological restorations as well. |
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