TITLE: Particularism and the Politics of Nature

This thesis is an attempt to offer an account of the practical ethi cs of Bruno Latour's political ecology based on Jonathan Dancy's recent work on ethical particularism w ith the ai m of demonstrating the possibility of their entering into a fruitful a lliance. I argue that Dancy 's parti cul arism offers Latour a defensible (though not uncontroversial) position through which to anticipate, and respond to, various concel11S arising from the latter 's attempts to minimize the rol e of principles in ecological-moral deliberation. In retul11, Latour 's ecology encourages us to consider the possibility of a particularist eco logical ethic wh il e a ll owing us to see what is most important about parti cul arism in the context of press ing matters of publ ic concel11