1st Edition
Plant-Inclusive Care Ethics Insights from Bonsai, Tomato Plants, and Giant Sequoia Trees
1.Introduction. 2.What About the Plants?: Plants in Human-Centered Ethics of Care. 3.Vegetal Matters: Plant Cared-fors in Care Ethics. 4.Defending a Plant-Inclusive Care Ethic. 5.Cartography: Charting Interdisciplinary Paths in Case Study Research. 6.Beyond Bondage: The Ethics of Caring for Bonsai Trees in Aesthetic Contexts. 7.Tangling with Taste: The Ethics of Caring for Tomato Plants in Crop Contexts. 8.Guarding Giants: The Ethics of Caring for Giant Sequoia Trees in Wild Contexts. 9.Conclusion.
Biography
Kate Brelje is a researcher at the intersection of environmental ethics and feminist theory. She is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Bonaventure University. Previous publications include “More than Humans: A Case for Inclusion of Non-human Persons in Care Ethics” in Essays in Philosophy (2023). She is also the showrunner for the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast (soundcloud.com/networking-with-plants).
