Arran Gare
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Arran Emrys Gare (/ɡɛər/; born 1948)[1][2] is an Australian philosopher known mainly for his work in environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of culture and the metaphysics of process philosophy. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Biography
Gare is the son of Frank Gare ISO,[3] former Commissioner for Native Welfare and Regional Director of Aboriginal Affairs in Western Australia, and Nene Gare,[4] author of The Fringe Dwellers[5] and other novels. He is also the brother of Shelley Gare, an Australian author and journalist.
Gare attended
Research
Gare's work is mainly in
In more recent work Gare has published in the fields of narratology, hermeneutics, semiotics, complexity theory, theoretical biology, human ecology and philosophical anthropology, Schelling's philosophy, Chinese philosophy and Christopher Alexander's theories of architecture, biomathematics and biosemiotics, and called for a revival of the Radical Enlightenment as the true heir of the Renaissance struggle for democracy and for the creation of an ecological civilisation as a new world order based on a new relationship between humanity and nature. More specifically, he has been concerned to revive and reformulate on naturalistic foundations the ethics and political philosophy of the liberal socialists inspired by T.H. Green, develop more adequate theoretical foundations for human ecology and ecological economics to provide an alternative to neo-classical economics as the core discipline for formulating public policy, and develop a form of retrospective path analysis as an alternative to cost-benefit analysis as a framework for formulating such policy. These ideas have been synthesised in his book The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A manifesto for the future published in 2016. Such work revives the traditional ambitions of philosophy, and as such, is a challenge to philosophy's current marginalization. In defence of his conception of philosophy he has worked to revive the tradition of speculative naturalism, an outcome of which has been the publication in 2017 of the anthology For a New Naturalism, co-edited with Wayne Hudson.
A critical review of his work has been made from within the domain of process philosophy by McLaren.[8]
Cosmos and History
He is the founder and a chief editor of the online journal
Other positions
- The founder and director of the Joseph Needham Centre for Complex Processes Research.
- A founder and first chairman of the board of the education cooperative 'Akademos'.
- One of the founders of the Association for the Public University.[9]
- Senior Researcher of the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China. China Project of the Center for Process Studies, Claremont, California.
- Since 2005, a member of the International Advisory Board, The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy.
- Since 2009, consultant, Research Office for Ecological Civilization, Beijing, China.
- Since 2012, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, BIOmathics Support Action, Europe.
- Since 2012, member of the Advisory Board, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group).
- Since 2020, Advisor to the new Russian journal "Ecopoiesis: Eco-Human Theory and Practice". [2] The 30 May 2020 issue contains an interview with him entitled "Toward an Ecological Civilization - An interview with Arran Gare"[3].
Publications
- (1983) Robert Elliot and Arran E. Gare eds, Environmental Philosophy (St Lucia: U.Q.P.; London: Open University Press; University Park: Penn. State University Press).
- (1993) Arran Gare, Nihilism Incorporated: European Civilization and Environmental Destruction (Bungendore: Eco-Logical Press; Cambridge: Whitehorse Press). Read online
- (1993) Arran Gare, Beyond European Civilization: Marxism, Process Philosophy and the Environment (Bungendore: Eco-Logical Press, Cambridge: Whitehorse Press). Read online
- (1995) Arran Gare, Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis (London: Routledge).[10]
- (1996) Arran Gare, Nihilism Inc.: Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability (Sydney: Eco-Logical Press). Read online
- (2000) Arran Gare, Aleksandr Bogdanov and Systems Theory (Democracy & Nature, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2000). Read online
- (2016) Arran Gare, Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A Manifesto for the Future (London: Routledge).[11]
- (2017) Arran Gare and Wayne Hudson eds, For a New Naturalism (Candor, New York: Telos Press).[12]
Notes
- ^ a b PhD thesis
- ^ "Family Notices". West Australian. 17 January 1948. p. 1. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ^ see National Library of Australia: "Papers of Frank Gare"
- ^ see National Library of Australia: "Papers of Nene Gare"
- ^ see National Library of Australia entry, Nene Gare: The Fringe Dwellers, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1966.
- ^ Squarcini, Rosina (1999). "Nene Gare, a Biographical Study : Australian Novelist, 1919-1994". Research Online. Mt Lawley, WA: Edith Cowan University. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ^ International Whitehead Conference 3–6 July 2006, University of Salzburg Archived 11 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine, see Keynotes/Abstracts/Arran Gare.
- ^ Glenn McLaren, 'Unifying Process Philosophy: Secular Metaphysics and Fragmentary Influences’, Applied Process Thought I: Initial Explorations in Theory and Research. Ed. Mark Dibben and Thomas Kelly, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp.43–109.
- ^ The Age, 4 May 2003.
- ^ see Routledge entry, Arran Gare: Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis, London, 1995.
- ^ "The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A manifesto for the future".
- ^ "Now Available: For a New Naturalism, edited by Arran Gare and Wayne Hudson". September 2017.
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