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Item Open Access A philosopher gone wild (Karnos)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1993) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Oxford University Press, publisherRolston found that, loving wisdom, he had to quarrel with Socrates, taking a natural turn. Indeed he found that he had to quarrel with the three disciplines he most loved: science, philosophy, and theology. None of them appropriately valued nature, which he had learned to love from the cradle in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and continuing as he became in his early adult years a naturalist in the Southern Appalachians. He became increasingly convinced of the intrinsic values in nature and equally dismayed by environmental degradation there. That led him to become a founder of environmental ethics. No one can really become a philosopher, loving wisdom, without caring for these sources in which we live, move, and have our being, the community of life on Earth.Item Open Access A philosopher gone wild: CSU professor makes peace between God and science — and wins the world's most generous prize(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003-04) Campbell, Greg, interviewer and author; Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, intervieweeDr. Holmes Rolston is interviewed by Greg Campbell in April 2003. Dr. Holmes Rolston will receive the Templeton Prize, valued at more than $1 million, on May 7 in London's Buckingham Palace from Prince Philip. He will use the money to endow a chair in his name at his alma mater, Davidson College in North Carolina, in the fields of science and religion. His studies in philosophy of science, in evolutionary and ecosystem science, and as an accomplished biologist have made Rolston the leading voice for protecting biodiversity — not only out of respect for nature, but also due to religious obligation. He already has carved on his future tombstone this epitaph: "Philosopher Gone Wild." That's his life well-lived.Item Open Access An interview with Holmes Rolston III - Chinese(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Libenson, Sam, interviewer; Wong, Justin, interviewer; Ma, Chenghui, translatorHolmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature. Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here ‒ a wonderland. Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know. Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.Item Open Access An interview with Holmes Rolston III - English(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Libenson, Sam, interviewer; Wong, Justin, interviewerHolmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature. Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here ‒ a wonderland. Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know. Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.Item Open Access Biographical notes: Holmes Rolston, III(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorItem Open Access Booknotes, January 2010(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) O'Hear, Anthony, author; Royal Institute of Philosophy, publisherThe author reviews Christopher J. Preston's book Saving Creation, which charts the intellectual and personal odyssey of Holmes Rolston III.Item Open Access Critical notice - Holmes Rolston III(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorCritical notice of citations of Rolston's published materials in environmental ethics and in science and religion.Item Open Access Eigingildi à náttúrunni -- heimspeki á villigötum?(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2005) Arnason, Thorvardur, author; University of Iceland, publisherEthics has been constantly becoming more inclusive, and that ought to encompass the larger community of life on Earth. Values are present in living organisms, independently of humans. Iceland has more opportunity for protecting a larger proportion of its landscape as wild nature than does the United States, or other more temperate nations. Rolston finds the Iceland environment challenging, in some ways recalling the challenges he faced in Antarctica. Hugur is an annual, the only Icelandic periodical that is solely dedicated to philosophy.Item Open Access Entrevista: Dr. Holmes Rolston III(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2004) Griffith, James, author; Universidade Federal de Viçosa, publisherAn interview of Rolston in the extension journal of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil. Rolston recalls visits to Brazil, first for the 1992 UNCED Conference in Rio de Janeiro and the second in 2000 for the II Brazilian National Conference on Protected Areas, in Campo Grande. Concern for a sustainable biosphere has more priority than sustainable development. Living on Earth is not just looking out for ourselves, but ought also to show concern for the larger community of life on Earth, so marvelously exemplified in Brazil.Item Open Access Holmes Rolston III 1932- / by Jack Weir (Japanese)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2004) Weir, Jack, author; Jiyuji, Sudou, author; Misuzu Shobo, publisherHolmes Rolston is widely recognized as the "father of environmental ethics" as an academic discipline. More so than any other, he has shaped the essential nature, scope and issues of the discipline. The following six principles are basic to his work: 1. The Homologous Principle: Follow Nature; 2. The Value-Capture Principle; 3. The Organic Principle: Respect for Life; 4. The Species Principle: Preserve 'Forms' of Life; 5. The Ecosystemic Principle; 6. The Three 'Environments' Principle: Urban, Rural and Wilderness (or, the Nature-Culture Principle).Item Open Access Holmes Rolston III 1932- / by Jack Weir 2001, 2018(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Weir, Jack, author; Routledge, publisherHolmes Rolston is widely recognized as the "father of environmental ethics" as an academic discipline. More so than any other, he has shaped the essential nature, scope and issues of the discipline. The following six principles are basic to his work: 1. The Homologous Principle: Follow Nature; 2. The Value-Capture Principle; 3. The Organic Principle: Respect for Life; 4. The Species Principle: Preserve 'Forms' of Life; 5. The Ecosystemic Principle; 6. The Three 'Environments' Principle: Urban, Rural and Wilderness (or, the Nature-Culture Principle). Rolston has been an invited speaker on all seven continents, gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998, and won the Templeton Prize, 2003, awarded to him by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace. He does not want Anthropocene humans to live a denatured life on a denatured planet.Item Open Access Holmes Rolston III: interview by Theo Horesh(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Horesh, Theo, author; Bauu Press, publisherRolston on how we might more wisely approach the "perfect moral storm" of climate change. Ethicists will watch the worldview, the interpretation, the value choices underlying economic analyses. We are at a hinge point in human and Earth history. We have enormous amounts of power but have not learned to control our appetites. How do we value the extinctions of species we are causing? How do we value diversity on our wonderland planet? What are the dangers of entering an Anthropocene Epoch? We can think of Earth as a promised land, a gift. Rolston has seen radical changes in human attitudes and behaviors in his lifetime. He challenges the millennial generation to press for more caring for Earth.Item Open Access Holmes Rolston, III - CSU history(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Hansen, James E., 1938-, author; Colorado State University, publisherRolston has been important in Colorado State University's strategic planning for enhanced student learning. He was the first University Distinguished Professor to be named outside the natural sciences. He has a scholarly reputation comparable to CSU's most successful researchers and is as knowledgeable about science generally as are most such specialists. Rolston's classes have been characterized both by rigorous standards and by a welcoming atmosphere conducive to the thoughtful exchange of ideas.Item Open Access I married a "thinker"(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1995-2005) Rolston, Jane, authorRecollections of Holmes Rolston's wife Jane over the decades of her life married to a philosophical "thinker."Item Open Access Interview with a true green giant(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Crumm, David, author; David Crumm Media, publisherRolston is a true "green giant," urging the kinds of experience people all need to share, if humans are to survive as a species. He is working to knit together a rather unlikely community of secular scientists, nature lovers, public policy experts, and people of faith. Rolston claims to do his best teaching by sneaking up on people and inviting them to get in a whole lot deeper than they previously thought possible. He is something of a mixture of Charles Darwin, the Dalai Llama, Al Gore, and Billy Graham.Item Open Access Invited lectures, symposia conducted(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorItem Open Access Natural thinker(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997) Lipsher, Steve, author; Denver Post, publisherThirty years after he laid the foundation for environmental ethics, Holmes Rolston continues to wrestle with one of the West's most contentious issues, bridging the human and the natural world. So revolutionary has Rolston's work been that this spring he won an invitation to Scotland to present the prestigious Gifford Lectures, an 110-year old lecture series that has featured some of the world's most creative and influential philosophers and scholars.Item Open Access Nature, value, duty: life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III: book summary(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Preston, Christopher J., editor; Ouderkirk, Wayne, editor; Springer, publisherItem Open Access Philosopher gone wild: Rolston bio-photo-media 2020(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker and filmmakerHolmes Rolston's biography: Shenandoah Valley childhood. Education. Years in Southwest Virginia. Grand Canyon River run. Colorado State University, classroom. Interview, University of Georgia. Family and outdoors. Rolston-Rollin debate, 1989. Wild Rockies, including wolves. Travels, Africa, Asia including Nepal, and Antarctica. Science and Religion. Oakland University, Michigan, Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh, 1997-1998. Wilderness. Templeton Prize in Buckingham Palace, 2003. In the woods. Endowed Rolston Chairs, Davidson College, CSU. The Pasqueflower, 2008.Item Open Access Rolston bio-profile HD slideshow(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, filmmaker