The relationship with nature through art has been explored as a two fold bond. The first considers a relationship with nature via art and science, where the history and contemporary application of scientific illustration in art is explored; while the second explores past and present connections with nature via art and the landscape, particularly the panoramic tradition. Historically these relationships have predominately been about dominating nature, mans dominion over the land. Science was seen as the only authority, while our relationships with the land in art, positioned the viewer at a commanding distance above and over the land, as seen in the post colonial panoramic tradition. In contrast, -The Coorong Series- explores a lived history with nature rather than the historical role of dominance. -The Coorong Series" explores a relationship of knowledge, understanding, and the experience of nature; through two parts. The first combines art and science in -The Coorong Specimen Series', to explore the facts and knowledge that science has provided about certain plants, birds and marine life from the Coorong. Inspiration has been derived from 19thC scientific illustrations and the lyrical prints of the Coorong by Australian Artist John Olsen. Part two explores the immersive experience of the iconic landscape in ???The Coorong Landscape Series" providing a relationship that seeks to understand the functionality of the location and to celebrate the unique beauty of this diverse region. Inspiration has been gained from the landscapes by l8th and 19th C artists John Constable and Claude Monet, along with landscapes by contemporary artists, John Walker and Mandy Martin. Through aesthetic notions such as scientific illustration, panoramic landscape, immersive scale, the collection of work, an expressionistic use of paint, and labeling of each piece like a museum display. -The Coorong landscape series" provides an exploration of a region that immerses the viewer in an experience of the location. The series portrays a relationship with nature through art that educates the viewer about The Coorong region. Connections are made between the land, birds, plants, fish, and human interaction; which results in an ecological consideration of the Coorong. Ultimately it is the educational experience that art provides allowing the viewer to explore a plethora of relationships within nature, and to explore how these relationships have changed or continue to exist within this era.

Le but principal de ce travail a été de reprendre les transformations du concept de la nature au sein de la philosophie occidentale et de mettre en relation l'histoire du droit, à partir des catégories analytiques telles que le pouvoir et la domination qui tracent un chemin particulier au déroulement de la crise environnementale également mise en question aujourd'hui. L'objectif était de discuter le rôle du Droit en tant que science et comme un instrument de pouvoir qui a historiquement conduit seulement des tranches de la société à un statut de position dominante, ces petits groupes corroborent à la crise environnementale. En ce sens, il est inévitable de parler de l'Amazonie, en particulier du Pará, un État où la déforestation et les conflits atteignent des records. Le reflet de toutes ces transformations est vécu au quotidien dans cette région où des points de vue opposés sur la nature cohabitent conflictuellement et alors, c’est dans ce champ de forces que la classe dominante montre son pouvoir et détermine l'avenir de ce lieu. Nous présentons une brève analyse de la façon dont les juristes se manifestent dans les processus liés à des grands projets parmi la région ouest du Pará pour illustrer la vision et les concepts de la nature tirés par ces importants acteurs. Mais qu’est-ce que qui pourrait être vraiment différent dans cet ensemble qui se répète à travers le monde? A la fin, nous présentons les dernières discussions sur l'autonomisation sociale des agents qui résistent à la domination séculaire. La nature comme sujet de droit est non seulement une pensée tirée d’une dimension théorique biocentrique, mais aussi elle représente un mouvement de décolonisation de la pensée et des constructions européanisées / occidentales, ainsi qu'une construction de l'autonomisation des agents qui donne l'identité à ce lieu, l'Amazonie. / The main effort of the rescue work was the transformation of the concept of nature in Western philosophy and relate the history of law, analytic categories such as power and domination of drawing a particular way the crisis process environmental as discussed today. The aim was to discuss the role of law as a science and as an instrument of power that historically only led party on a dominant status and a mastery of the crisis experienced and propagated today. In this sense, it is inevitable question of the Amazon, in particular the state of Pará with record of deforestation and conflict. The reflection of all the transformations are experienced daily in the region where the nature diametrically opposed visions of the life of a conflict and therefore within the force field agents to show their power and dictate the future of this location. A brief analysis of how lawyers are manifested in processes related to large projects in the western region of Para to illustrate the vision and the nature of the concepts learned by these important agents. But what could be really different in this whole journey that repeats throughout the world? At the end, we present the latest discussions on the social empowerment of officers who resist the secular domination. Nature as a subject of rights is not only a thought or a biocentric theoretical aspect, is a decolonization movement of thought and theoretical constructs Europeanized / Western and a building accountability agents that give identity to place, the Amazon. / O principal esforço desde trabalho foi resgatar as transformações do conceito de natureza dentro da filosofia ocidental e relacionar a história do Direito, a partir de categorias analíticas como poder e dominação que desenham um caminho particular ao processo de crise ambiental tão discutido na atualidade. O objetivo era discutir o papel do Direito enquanto ciência e enquanto instrumento de poder que conduziu historicamente apenas parcelas das sociedades ao status de dominante e que exerce grande controle da crise hoje vivenciada e propagada. Neste sentido, é inexorável falar da Amazônia, especialmente do Pará, Estado com recordes de desmatamento e conflitos. O reflexo de todas as transformações são vivenciadas dia-a-dia na região onde visões de natureza diametralmente opostas convivem conflituosamente e, portanto, será dentro do campo de forças que os agentes demonstram seu poder e ditam o futuro deste lugar. Apresentamos uma breve analise de como os juristas manifestam-se dentro dos processos relacionados aos grandes projetos na região oeste do Pará como ilustração da visão e dos conceitos de natureza apreendidos por esses importantes agentes. Mas o que poderia ser realmente diferente em todo esse percurso que se repete em todo mundo? Ao final, apresentamos as últimas discussões quanto ao empoderamento social de agentes que resistem à dominação secular. A natureza enquanto sujeito de Direitos não é apenas um pensamento ou uma vertente teórica biocêntrica, representa um movimento de descolonização do pensamento e das construções teóricas europeizadas/ocidentais, como também uma construção de empoderamento dos agentes que dão identidade ao lugar, a Amazônia.

CAPES / Este trabalho apresenta uma análise dos artigos publicados pela pensadora brasileira Maria Lacerda de Moura na revista espanhola Estudios (1930-1936). Nestes artigos identificamos elementos para a constituição de uma filosofia unicista libertária da natureza, de onde vem o nosso objetivo de compreender a proposta desta autora, além das suas contribuições críticas à relação estabelecida entre natureza e humanidade na sociedade burguesa industrial. A imprensa foi instrumento privilegiado no final do século XIX para a organização do movimento anarquista bem como difusão de conhecimento e ideais e valores contraculturais à ideologia dominante. Visando a transformação social, editoriais de viés anarquista emergiram trazendo elementos críticos à sociedade vigente e atentos às descobertas científicas da época. Além da difusão do conhecimento, os libertários também questionavam o papel da classe científica e ressignificavam conhecimentos e conceitos a fim de transformá-los em instrumentos para a mudança revolucionária. Neste sentido, identificamos nos artigos publicados na Revista Estudios, ligada ao campo do anarco-individualismo espanhol, a construção de diversas filosofias da natureza com vistas à sociedade libertária. Neste período de fortalecimento a nível mundial dos Estados-nação após a Primeira Guerra Mundial e a ascensão dos Estados totalitários, os militantes e pensadores anarquistas questionavam o avanço tecnológico, a democracia e as instituições da sociedade burguesa. Nesta perspectiva, constituíam diferentes visões da natureza que se opunham à das classes dirigentes, base de um conhecimento científico normalizador e de uma sociedade de controle. Releituras críticas e emancipatórias de temas científicos tão diversos como a eugenia, o neomalthusianismo, o naturismo, a educação sexual, o vegetarianismo, o proteanismo, a plasmogenia, aliados ao combate anticlerical e a um pacifismo radical, baseavam a crítica libertária às políticas autoritárias exercidas pelos governos fascistas. A partir dos artigos da brasileira Maria Lacerda de Moura, publicados neste periódico entre os anos de 1930 e 1936, procuraremos demonstrar a constituição de saberes e de uma “ciência radical”, crítica à sociedade vigente e voltada para a construção de uma nova ética, de uma nova sociedade harmônica através da cooperação, educação, emancipação, avanço tecnológico e participação democrática direta. Na revista Estudios, Maria Lacerda de Moura constrói pontes ibero-americanas a fim de combater inimigos em comum e desativar quaisquer mecanismos de dominação. Neste caminho, a partir das resistências locais e cotidianas, a construção de uma filosofia unicista da natureza se faz evidente. / This work presents an analysis of articles published by brazilian thinker Maria Lacerda de Moura in the spanish journal Estudios (1930-1936). In these articles we identified elements for the creation of a libertarian unicist philosophy of nature, hence our goal to understand the purpose of this author beyond their critical contributions to the relationship established between nature and humanity in the industrial bourgeois society. The press was a privileged instrument in the late nineteenth century to the organization of the anarchist movement and diffusion of knowledge and countercultural ideals and values of the dominant ideology. Aimed at social transformation, editorials with anarchist bias emerged, attentive to the scientific discoveries of the time and bringing critical elements to the existing society. In addition to the dissemination of knowledge, libertarians also questioned the role of class and they gave their own meanings to scientific knowledge and concepts in order to turn them into an instrument for revolutionary change. In this sense, we identify in articles published in the journal Estudios, linked to the field of spanish anarcho-individualism, the construction of various philosophies of nature with a view to libertarian society. In this period of strengthening of global nation-states after the First World War and the rise of totalitarian states, militants and anarchist thinkers questioned the technological progress, democracy and the institutions of bourgeois society. In this perspective, they constituted different views of nature which opposed the one defended by the ruling class, based on a normalizing scientific knowledge and a society of control. Libertarian critique of authoritarian policies exercised by fascist governments was based on critical and emancipatory reinterpretations of scientific topics as diverse as eugenics, neomalthusianism, naturism, sex education, vegetarianism, the "proteanismo", the "plasmogenia", allies to combat anti-clerical and radical pacifism. From the articles published by the Brazilian Maria Laceda de Moura. in this journal between the years 1930 and 1936, we will seek to demonstrate the constitution of knowledges and a "radical science," critique of current society and toward the construction of a new ethics, of a new harmonious society through cooperation, education, empowerment, technological advances and direct democratic participation. In Estudios magazine, Maria Lacerda de Moura built Ibero- American bridges in order to combat enemies in common and disable any mechanisms of domination. In this way, from local and daily resistance, the construction of a unicist philosophy of nature is evident.

CAPES / Este trabalho apresenta uma análise dos artigos publicados pela pensadora brasileira Maria Lacerda de Moura na revista espanhola Estudios (1930-1936). Nestes artigos identificamos elementos para a constituição de uma filosofia unicista libertária da natureza, de onde vem o nosso objetivo de compreender a proposta desta autora, além das suas contribuições críticas à relação estabelecida entre natureza e humanidade na sociedade burguesa industrial. A imprensa foi instrumento privilegiado no final do século XIX para a organização do movimento anarquista bem como difusão de conhecimento e ideais e valores contraculturais à ideologia dominante. Visando a transformação social, editoriais de viés anarquista emergiram trazendo elementos críticos à sociedade vigente e atentos às descobertas científicas da época. Além da difusão do conhecimento, os libertários também questionavam o papel da classe científica e ressignificavam conhecimentos e conceitos a fim de transformá-los em instrumentos para a mudança revolucionária. Neste sentido, identificamos nos artigos publicados na Revista Estudios, ligada ao campo do anarco-individualismo espanhol, a construção de diversas filosofias da natureza com vistas à sociedade libertária. Neste período de fortalecimento a nível mundial dos Estados-nação após a Primeira Guerra Mundial e a ascensão dos Estados totalitários, os militantes e pensadores anarquistas questionavam o avanço tecnológico, a democracia e as instituições da sociedade burguesa. Nesta perspectiva, constituíam diferentes visões da natureza que se opunham à das classes dirigentes, base de um conhecimento científico normalizador e de uma sociedade de controle. Releituras críticas e emancipatórias de temas científicos tão diversos como a eugenia, o neomalthusianismo, o naturismo, a educação sexual, o vegetarianismo, o proteanismo, a plasmogenia, aliados ao combate anticlerical e a um pacifismo radical, baseavam a crítica libertária às políticas autoritárias exercidas pelos governos fascistas. A partir dos artigos da brasileira Maria Lacerda de Moura, publicados neste periódico entre os anos de 1930 e 1936, procuraremos demonstrar a constituição de saberes e de uma “ciência radical”, crítica à sociedade vigente e voltada para a construção de uma nova ética, de uma nova sociedade harmônica através da cooperação, educação, emancipação, avanço tecnológico e participação democrática direta. Na revista Estudios, Maria Lacerda de Moura constrói pontes ibero-americanas a fim de combater inimigos em comum e desativar quaisquer mecanismos de dominação. Neste caminho, a partir das resistências locais e cotidianas, a construção de uma filosofia unicista da natureza se faz evidente. / This work presents an analysis of articles published by brazilian thinker Maria Lacerda de Moura in the spanish journal Estudios (1930-1936). In these articles we identified elements for the creation of a libertarian unicist philosophy of nature, hence our goal to understand the purpose of this author beyond their critical contributions to the relationship established between nature and humanity in the industrial bourgeois society. The press was a privileged instrument in the late nineteenth century to the organization of the anarchist movement and diffusion of knowledge and countercultural ideals and values of the dominant ideology. Aimed at social transformation, editorials with anarchist bias emerged, attentive to the scientific discoveries of the time and bringing critical elements to the existing society. In addition to the dissemination of knowledge, libertarians also questioned the role of class and they gave their own meanings to scientific knowledge and concepts in order to turn them into an instrument for revolutionary change. In this sense, we identify in articles published in the journal Estudios, linked to the field of spanish anarcho-individualism, the construction of various philosophies of nature with a view to libertarian society. In this period of strengthening of global nation-states after the First World War and the rise of totalitarian states, militants and anarchist thinkers questioned the technological progress, democracy and the institutions of bourgeois society. In this perspective, they constituted different views of nature which opposed the one defended by the ruling class, based on a normalizing scientific knowledge and a society of control. Libertarian critique of authoritarian policies exercised by fascist governments was based on critical and emancipatory reinterpretations of scientific topics as diverse as eugenics, neomalthusianism, naturism, sex education, vegetarianism, the "proteanismo", the "plasmogenia", allies to combat anti-clerical and radical pacifism. From the articles published by the Brazilian Maria Laceda de Moura. in this journal between the years 1930 and 1936, we will seek to demonstrate the constitution of knowledges and a "radical science," critique of current society and toward the construction of a new ethics, of a new harmonious society through cooperation, education, empowerment, technological advances and direct democratic participation. In Estudios magazine, Maria Lacerda de Moura built Ibero- American bridges in order to combat enemies in common and disable any mechanisms of domination. In this way, from local and daily resistance, the construction of a unicist philosophy of nature is evident.

Orientador: Fátima Regina Rodrigues Évora / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Huimanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T11:47:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cecon_Kleber_D.pdf: 1520746 bytes, checksum: 5b636b8430205a01ac329dd3d8a5814a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O objetivo dessa tese é analisar a filosofia mecânica de Robert Boyle, visando mostrar a compatibilidade entre o seu pensamento químico e mecanicista. Apesar de não poder ser provada por experimentos alquímicos, a filosofia mecânica de Boyle é corroborada por eles e os mesmos tiveram grande importância na refutação das formas substanciais e qualidades reais da escolástica. Os experimentos alquímicos tornam-se importantes na medida em que é necessário elucidar como eles são usados na defesa do mecanicismo boyleano. Visando auxiliar a compreensão dos mesmos, foram analisados aqueles que Boyle julgava mais aptos para esse fim, assim como a tradução química para a correspondente linguagem da química contemporânea / Abstract: The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate that there is no opposition between Robert Boyle's alchemy and mechanicism. Despite the fact that Boyle's mechanical philosophy cannot be proved by alchemical experiments, it is supported theoretically by them and they had great importance in the refutation of the scholastic's substantial forms and real qualities. The alchemical experiments are important since is necessary to elucidate how they were used to defend the boylean mechanicism. In order to better comprehend these experiments, some of them, which Boyle judged to be the most suitable for the task, were selected and chemically translated into modern chemical language / Doutorado / Filosofia / Doutor em Filosofia

Après les travaux de F. Del Punta, S. Donati et C. Trifogli, sur les commentaires inédits de la Physique au XIIIe siècle, cette étude propose une réévaluation du commentaire thomasien. En resituant celui-ci dans la tradition exégétique dominée par le Grand commentaire d’Averroès et la paraphrase de Maître Albert, l’intention plutôt énigmatique de Thomas prend un caractère moins théo-centré et, en un sens, plus physique, mais aussi plus paradoxal. / Following the works by F. Del Punta, S. Donati and C. Trifogli on the unpublished comments of Physics in the thirteenth century, this study puts forward a revaluation of Aquinas’s comment. By placing it in the exegetic tradition dominated by Averroes’s great comment and Albert’s paraphrase, Thomas’s rather puzzling intention becomes less theo-centred, and in a way, more physical, but also more paradoxical.

Sveriges skogar har historiskt präglats av människan genom tiderna. Olika intressenter av dagens skogar har olika tankar kring hur skogarna ska brukas, vilket kan leda till konflikter. För att undvika konflikter är information om skogen viktig och den kommer idag från skolan, olika skogsbolag och intresseorganisationer. Dock är befolkningens natursyner, de värderingar om hur naturen och människan samspelar, svåra att informera bort. Studiens syfte var att redogöra för synen på framtida skogar, kunskapsnivå och om mer information önskas. Studien genomfördes genom en enkätundersökning i två utvalda delar av Sverige. De resultat som framkom var att kunskaperna var goda och mer information om Sveriges skogar önskades. För framtida skogars användande föredrogs mjuka värden som biologisk mångfald och rekreation. Natursynen hade ingen större påverkan för hur den önskade framtida skogen skulle se ut.

Die Studie enthält eine Untersuchung der Naturphilosophie Melanchthons. Sie rekonstruiert die Entwicklung seiner wissenschaftlichen Interpretation des naturphilosophischen Wissens und weist nach, daß die lebenslange Beschäftigung Melanchthons mit naturphilosophischen Problemen ihre Motivation aus Luthers Theologie bezog, wenngleich diese nach einer philosophischen Unterstützung nicht verlangte.

This dissertation offers a new interpretation of the metaphysics of two seventeenth-century women philosophers – Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) and Anne Conway (1631–1679) – and brings to light an unnoticed tradition in seventeenth-century philosophy. I argue that both Cavendish and Conway can be understood as panpsychist-materialist monists: despite their other differences, they agree that there is one kind of substance in nature or creation, and that the single sort of substance always displays material features and mental capacities. Further, I propose that Cavendish and Conway are joined by the physician Francis Glisson (1597–1677) and the poet John Milton (1608–1674) as examples of a distinct panpsychist-materialist tendency in early modern England. ‘Panpsychist-materialist monism’ may at first seem too clunky to serve as the moniker of a movement, but it earns its keep by accurately capturing three elements of the figures’ systems that, when studied together as a group of related commitments, reveal the philosophical significance of each person’s views. My reading therefore bears on the project of interpreting Cavendish and Conway on their own terms and changes the way their context should be understood. Moreover, to the extent that contemporary philosophers of mind draw on philosophers from history in the formulation of their current views, the work presented in this dissertation stands to make a difference in present-day philosophy as well.

This essay provides a thorough reading of Gilles Deleuze’s (1925–95) philosophy of nature and the way music relates to this philosophy. It does so with regards to changes in the view of nature in 20th century science, especially in the theories of self-organisation as developed by, among others, Ilya Prigogine. Deleuze’s metaphysics is viewed in relation to these theories, and is also compared to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, which is related to classical science. The essay then investigates certain key issues in Deleuze’s philosophy concerning difference and univocity (or immanence), developed in his doctoral thesis Différence et répétition (1968). Also, certain aspects of the further evolution of this philosophy of immanence in Mille plateaux (1980), co-written with Félix Guattari, are examined. The essay then studies the role of aesthetics in Deleuze’s philosophy, and the way he transforms the aesthetics of Kant. The following chapter deals with Deleuze & Guattari’s primary text concerning music, ”De la ritournelle” in Mille plateaux. In this text, they develop a highly abstract concept of music, which, in their philosophy, is: 1) granted a cosmological reach regarding rhythms and motives; 2) made an essential aspect of the emergence of art, which they find in animals creating a territory (especially in the songbird); 3) used to discuss Baroque/Classicist, Romantic and 20th century musical styles. Apart from analysing these aspects, this chapter focuses on 20th century music, with a thorough examination of Gustav Mahler and of spectral music, demonstrating that Deleuze’s philosophy can deepen the understanding of this music. The chapter also discusses problematic tendencies in Deleuzian research on contemporary music, which does not take the entirety of Deleuze’s philosophy of nature into account. This essay argues that such knowledge is necessary to correctly examine the implications of Deleuze & Guattari’s philosophy of music. The lack of awareness of Deleuze’s philosophy of nature is also significant in the critique that Deleuze’s aesthetics has received by Jacques Rancière, which is analysed in the final chapter. This chapter also discusses Michael Gallope’s reading of Deleuze & Guattari, in which he makes a distinction between a metaphysical and an ethical-aesthetic philosophy of music. Although the relation between metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics, is key to understanding their philosophy of music, this essay argues that Gallope’s idea of what sort of music they advocate is incorrect.