On-Line Philosophy Resources
from the Institute of Environment Philosophy and Public Policy
MAVE Dissertations
Students completing the MA in Values and Environment are invited to submit their dissertations in electronic form for this web resource. It is very useful for students thinking about starting a dissertation to see what subjects have been tackled in the past and the quality of many of the dissertations also makes them a useful resource for anyone thinking about environmental issues. Please do not quote from these sources without referencing them correctly.
Dissertations are available as rtf files
Other years
Other Dissertations available as hard copy in the Institute
Mezey, Matthew K. N., Deep Ecology and Transpersonal Psychology: an Enlightening Confrontation?, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 199?.
Lloyd, Catherine A., The Balance of Value to the Customer & the Environment for Undergrounding Overhead Lines (sponsored by Norweb), Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1990.
Mcdowell (McDowell), James B., Rethinking Man and Nature: Eco-feminism, Taoism and the Human Character Ideal, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1990.
Potter, Stephen, An Environmental Ethic for Business (with special reference to the Electricity Supply Industry), Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1990.
Mortlock, Annette, At the Roots of Deep Ecology, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1991.
Hickey, Adrian, Moral Responsibility: A Case Study in Investment Banking, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1991.
Ainsworth, Jonathan N., The Ecological Holism of New Science, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1991.
Sidwell, Linda, An Examination of the Transformative Effects of New Social Movement Activity upon the Individual: A Qualitative Approach, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1991.
Macheta, Aleksandra, Environment and Development: Our Common Future, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Mulvaney, Tony, An Explanation, and Analysis, of Heidegger's Concepts of 'Being' and 'Clearing' and Their Application to Environmental Philosophy, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Nantsou, Theodota, The Social Role of Modern Science and its Relation to the Natural World: a Critique, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Beevers, Paul, Ecocentrism and Misanthropy, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Lee, Wendy A., On Discerning the Value in Domesticated Nature, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Cook, Gavin, Science, Experience, Ethics & Phen; A Phen. of Moral Experience; Moral Controversies & Their Poss. Resolution; Perspectives Relating to the Environment, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Sutton, Richard, The Future of Environmental Education, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Smith, F. Russell, The Value of Ferns and the Problem with Bracken, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Evans, Paul, A Sketch of an Environmental Ethic for the Conservation of Plants, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1992.
Hartley, Stuart David, Mathesis Universalis or Taxinomia? A Reappraisal, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1993.
Rowley, Christopher, The Benefits and the Problems of the Proposed Merger of Development and Environmental Education, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1993.
Grace, Patrick, Is There Any Hope or Are We Completely Screwed? A Study of Some Implications for our Environment Due to the Changing Values of Experience, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1993.
Freeman, David, Self Realisation: Variations on a Deep Ecological Theme, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1993.
Gifford, Richard E.II, A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake's Hypothesis of Formative Causation, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1993.
Butler Ricketts, Catherine, Hume's Passion and Aristotle's Virtue: Ethics of Caring and Their Application to the Natural World, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1993.
Speight, Laurence, The Case for an Econcentric Consciousness, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1994.
Prescott, Helen, Nature and Self, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1994.
Lucas, Peter, This is not a Planet: Ethics and Environmentalism in the Age of the World Picture, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1994.
Hewett, Jonathon, 'Green' Claims in Advertising: Caveat Emptor, Caveat Lector?, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1994.
Booth, Peter, Anarchism and the Environmental Crisis, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1994.
Charlton, Noel G., Mind, Systems and the Sacred - A Paradigm Change in Values for Environmental Survival? Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1994.
Clarke, Benedick, Are There Intrinsic Values in Nature?, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1994.
Cullen, James T., A Systems Approach to Environmental Values: Sytems Process and the Bifurcation of Nature, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1994.
Arredondo, Edgar., On the Defence of the Human Individual and Non-Human Nature, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Bellingham, Philip, Unnatural Selection: the Possibility of a Phenomenological Ecology, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Benoit-Asselman, David, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing: Some Perspectives on the Relationship Between Phenomenology and Landscrape Photography, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Cox, Cleo, rDNA Genetic Engineering: More of the Same?, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Drew, Simon, The Modern Self and Environmental Philosophy, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Gittins, John W., Local Distinctiveness and Sense of Place as Concepts and Tools for Promoting, Developing and Sustaining Community Based Environmental Action, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Hunt, Nicholas, Being and Everythingness? Aspects of Freedom and Identity in the Thought of Sartre and Others, With Reference to 'Environmental Ethics', Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Nicklin, Christopher G. J., Moral Possibility After Nihilism: a Deconstruction of Ethics and Epistemology, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Rogers, Peter, A Genealogy of Guilt and Environmentalism, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Serrano-Barnett, Teresa, Ethics and Conservation, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Starr, Christopher, Are Native Species Always Best?: A Discussion of the Scientific, Cultural and Ethical Issues Surrounding the Native Species Debate, With Particular Reference to Forest and Woodland Trees in the United Kingdom, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Todd, Ivan, Phenomenological Fragments in a Year of Roads Protests, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Tomasini, Floris J-W., Sublime and the Ridiculous, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Walford, James, Phenomenology of the Sublime, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, September 1995.
Hannis, Michael, Freedom, Environmentalism and the
Liberal State, Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University,
September 1998.
LeBlanc, Martin: The Role of Culture in the Perception of Nature in the
United States (MA ECS)