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.

• IntroductionBrett Buchanan, Michelle Bastian and Matthew Chrulew1. The Surprise of Field Philosophy: Philosophical Encounters with Animal WorldsBrett Buchanan2. Aude Sapere: Dare Betray the Testator’s Demands Isabelle Stengers3. Out of the Books: Field PhilosophyVinciane Despret4. From Field Philosophy to Milieu PhilosophyDominique Lestel5. Thinking with Crows: (Re)Doing Philosophy in the Field Thom van Dooren6. Philosophy Disturbed: reflections on moving between field and philosophy Michelle Bastian7. A Leibnizian Fieldwork: Zebra Stripes and the MonadologyThibault De Meyer8. My Place, My Duty: Zoo Biology as Field Philosophy in the Work of Heini HedigerMatthew Chrulew9. The Haunting Cliffs: Some Notes on Silence Hugo Reinert