ERC Starting Grant · 2025
A Biocentric Ethic of Sustainable Agriculture
BIOTA will develop a biocentric ethic of sustainable agriculture to address the lack of biocentric theorising in agricultural ethics and thereby promises to create a new sub-field in environmental philosophy. This necessary theoretical innovation will provide appropriate normative guidance for agricultural practices by reflecting on the plurality of different nonhuman lifeforms that are either the objects – like plants – or enablers – like soil microbes – of agricultural activities. Therefore, BIOTA pays particular attention to the often-overlooked non-sentient organisms facilitating agricultural practices, with a specific focus on plant agriculture (grain, vegetable and fruit farming) –…
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