Field Philosophy and Other Experiments

Brett Buchanan is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Laurentian University, Canada. He is the author of Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. Matthew Chrulew is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Western Australia, where he leads the Posthumanities, Animalities, Environments research stream. He is the Series Editor of Animalities at Edinburgh University Press. Michelle Bastian is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK. She is Co-editor of Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds (Routledge) and an Editor-in-chief of Time & Society.

Introduction

Brett Buchanan, Michelle Bastian and Matthew Chrulew

1. The Surprise of Field Philosophy: Philosophical Encounters with Animal Worlds

Brett Buchanan

2. Aude Sapere: Dare Betray the Testator’s Demands

Isabelle Stengers

3. Out of the Books: Field Philosophy

Vinciane Despret

4. From Field Philosophy to Milieu Philosophy

Dominique Lestel

5. Thinking with Crows: (Re)Doing Philosophy in the Field

Thom van Dooren

6. Philosophy Disturbed: reflections on moving between field and philosophy

Michelle Bastian

7. A Leibnizian Fieldwork: Zebra Stripes and the Monadology

Thibault De Meyer

8. My Place, My Duty: Zoo Biology as Field Philosophy in the Work of Heini Hediger

Matthew Chrulew

9. The Haunting Cliffs: Some Notes on Silence

Hugo Reinert