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“Minding Animals”: Paul Shepard’s “Selfish” Argument for His Own Question “What Good Are Animals?”

Jorge Conesa-Sevilla is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Northland College. In addition to writing Ecological Outcome Psychological Theory (1999) and recently Ecopsychology as Ultimate Force Psychology: A Biosemiotic Approach to Nature Estrangement and Nature Alienation (2006), he has published many articles in the areas of semiotics, ecopsychological biosemiotics, and environmental philosophy. In 1989 he received a B.A. (triplespecial major--Whole Human) combining psychobiology, Eastern religion and biology from Humboldt State University in California. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in experimental psychology from The University of Toledo. He is a co-founder of The European Ecopsychology Society (www.ecopsychology.net). Email: jconesa@northland.edu.