#1134 Norbert Peeters: Botanic Philosophy, von Humboldt, Darwin, and Why Plants Matter

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Norbert Peters. He is a teacher at Wachningen University and a PhD student at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University. His research is focused on an investigation of the philosophical and historical roots, implicit founding presuppositions, and argumentative structure of the concept. of wilderness and its practical application in Dutch wildlife conservation projects.

And today we're going to talk about botanic philosophy, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, wilderness and some other related topics. So Norbert, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Well thank you for the invitation. So what is a botanic philosophy?

And I mean, I have to be honest here, I wouldn't have come across it if it wasn't for my patron Yannick Punter who got me in contact with your work and then also uh in consequence with botanic philosophy, otherwise I wouldn't even know that it existed. So what is it? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, it's a it's definitely one I get asked a lot, right? Because botanic philosopher is quite an odd moniker to go by, especially because philosophy usually deals with human affairs, right?

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