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Contents List of Contributors vii Preface ix 1 Disposing Nature or Disposing of It?: Reflections on the Instruction of Nature 1 Kate Soper 2 In Defense of Living Nature: Finding Common Ground in a Medieval Tradition 17 Jean Porter 3 Nature as Absence: The Logic of Nature and Culture in Social Contract Theory 29 Bruce Jennings 4 Human Nature without Theory 49 Gregory E. Kaebnick 5 Preserving the Distinction between Nature and Artifact 71 Eric Katz 6 Why “Nature” Has No Place in Environmental Philosophy 84 Steven Vogel 7 The Appeal to Nature 98 Bonnie Steinbock 8 Thinking Like a Mountain: Nature, Wilderness, and the Virtue of Humility 114 Paul Lauritzen vi Contents 9 He Did It on Hot Dogs and Beer: Natural Excellence in Human Athletic Achievement 130 David Wasserman 10 Sport, Simulation, and EPO 149 Nicholas Agar 11 Commonsense Morality and the Idea of Nature: What We Can Learn from Thinking about “Therapy” 168 William A. Galston 12 Rawls, Sports, and Liberal Legitimacy 179 Thomas H. Murray and Peter Murray Index 201 ...