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Some Quesions for Ecological Aesthetics

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Ecology has become a popular conceptual model in numerous fields of inquiry and it seems especially appropriate for environmental philosophy.  Apart from its literal employment in biology, ecology has served as a useful metaphor that captures the interdependence of factors in a field of research. At the same time as ecology is suggestive, it cannot be followed literally or blindly.  This paper considers the appropriateness of the uses to which ecology has been put in some recent discussions of architectural and environmental aesthetics, and develops a critique of the differing ecological aesthetics of Jusuck Koh and Xiangzhan Cheng.

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Published in Environmental Philosophy, Spring 2016, 123-135; Chinese trans. by Li Sujie, Dong Yue Tribune, No. 4, 2016.

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