Environmental Ethics

Informationen zum Autor David R. Keller is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesi s (with Frank Golley, 2000), and co-author of Ethics in Action (with Peggy Connolly, Becky Cox-White, and Martin G. Leever, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), a case-based approach to introducing ethics and environmental issues. Klappentext Environmental ethics is a relatively new philosophical discipline that addresses the complex convergence of humans with the natural world and its nonhuman inhabitants. Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions presents a series of interdisciplinary readings that examine the moral dimensions of the delicate relationship between human beings and the environment. Carefully chosen selections drawn from philosophy, the social and life sciences, economics, history, legal studies, business, and literature are organized clearly around the history of anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric origins of environmental ethics. The readings serve as an investigation of the proper scope of moral considerations relating to the environment - one that includes humans, animals, living things, ecosystems, and the built environment. Other topics include political approaches to environmental ethics, the importance of ecological science, and contemporary public policy issues such as agriculture, sustainability, population, globalization, and injustice. Readers are also directed to an online archive of continually updated international case studies that serve to complement and explicate the theoretical discussions outlined in the text. Thought provoking and timely, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions offers illuminating insights into an issue that is becoming more critical each year. To view a growing archive of environmental ethics case studies, please visit: http: //environmentalethics.info/. Zusammenfassung Through a series of multidisciplinary readings! Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s. Inhaltsverzeichnis 13609275 ...

Autorentext
David R. Keller is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis (with Frank Golley, 2000), and co-author of Ethics in Action (with Peggy Connolly, Becky Cox-White, and Martin G. Leever, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), a case-based approach to introducing ethics and environmental issues.

Klappentext
Environmental ethics is a relatively new philosophical discipline that addresses the complex convergence of humans with the natural world and its nonhuman inhabitants. Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions presents a series of interdisciplinary readings that examine the moral dimensions of the delicate relationship between human beings and the environment. Carefully chosen selections drawn from philosophy, the social and life sciences, economics, history, legal studies, business, and literature are organized clearly around the history of anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric origins of environmental ethics. The readings serve as an investigation of the proper scope of moral considerations relating to the environment - one that includes humans, animals, living things, ecosystems, and the built environment. Other topics include political approaches to environmental ethics, the importance of ecological science, and contemporary public policy issues such as agriculture, sustainability, population, globalization, and injustice. Readers are also directed to an online archive of continually updated international case studies that serve to complement and explicate the theoretical discussions outlined in the text. Thought provoking and timely, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions offers illuminating insights into an issue that is becoming more critical each year. To view a growing archive of environmental ethics case studies, please visit: http: //environmentalethics.info/.

Zusammenfassung
Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s.

Inhalt
Part I. Preface. Part II. What is the Proper Suject-Matter of Moral Philosophy? A Brief Overview of Environmental Ethics: David Keller. Part III. Why Study Environmental Ethics?. Essays by:. Emily Brady. Isis Brook. Baird Callicott. Victoria Davion. Frederick Ferre. Warwick Fox. Greta Gaard. John Granrose. Gene Hargrove. Andrew Light. Bryan Norton. Clare Palmer. Holmes Rolston. David Rothenberg. Mark Sagoff. George Sessions. Peter Singer. Ian Smith. James Sterba. Karen Warren. Michael Zimmerman. Part IV. WHAT IS ANTHROPOCENTRISM?. 1. Introduction. 2. Humans as Moral Ends: Saint Thomas Aquinas from Summa Contra Gentiles. 3. The Mastery of Nature: Francis Bacon from The Great Instauration. 4. Nonhumans as Machines: Rene Descartes from Discourse on the Method. 5. The Amoral Status of Nature: John Stuart Mill from "Nature". 6. Nature as Economic Resource: John Locke from "Of Property". 7. Indirect Duties to Nonhumans: Immanuel Kant from Lectures on Ethics. 8. Mechanistic Metaphysics: Isaac Newton from Opticks. 9. In Defense of Anthropocentrism: Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek from Justice, Posterity, and the Environment. Part V. WHAT IS NONANTHROPOCENTRISM?. 10. Introduction. 11. Walking: Henry David Thoreau from Excursions. 12. The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West: John Muir from Our National Parks and The Yosemite. 13. Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental, Ethic?: Richard Routley from Proceedings of teh XVth World Congress of Philosophy. 14. Attitudes to Nature: John Passmore from Nature and Conduct. 15. Should Trees Have Standing?: Christopher D. Stone from the Southern California Law Review Vol. 45. 16. The Varieties of Intrinsic Value: John O'Neill from The Monist Vol. 75. 17. Value in Nature and the Nature of Value: Holmes Rolston. 18. The End of Anthropocentrism?: Mary Midgley from Philosophy and the Natural Environment. 19. Is the Crown of Creation a Dunce Cap?: Chip Ward. Part VI. WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF MORAL CONSIDERABILITY?. 20. Introduction. 21. All Animals are Equal: Peter Singer from Philosophical Exchange vol. 1. 22. The Case for Animal Rights: Tom Reagan from In Defense of Animals and "Animal Rights, Human Wrongs". 23. On Being Morally Considerable: Kenneth E. Goodpaster from The Journal of Philosophy. 24. The Ethics of Respect for Nature: Paul W. Taylor from Environmental Ethics vol. 3. 25. The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: Arne Naess from Inquiry vol. 16. 26. The Heart of Deep Ecology: Tom McLaughlin from Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century. 27. The Deep Ecology Movement: Arne Naess from Philisophical Inquiry vol. VIII. 28. Transpersonal Ecology as a Distinctive Approach to Ecophilosophy: Warwick Fox from Toward a Transpersonal Ecology. 29. The Land Ethic: Aldo Leopold from A Sand County Almanac. 30. Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic: J. Baird Callicott from In Defense of the Land Ethic. 31. Gaia As Seen Through the Atmosphere: James Lovelock from Atmospheric Environment vol. 6. 32. Kantians and Utilitarians and the Moral Status of Nonhuman Life: James P. Sterba from The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics. 33. Persons in Nature: Frederick Ferre from Ethics in teh Environment vol. 1. 34. General Ethics: Fox from Developing a General Ethics: An Introduction to the Theory of Responsive Cohesion Part VII. WHAT ARE PROMINENT ALTERNATIVES TO GROUNDING ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS IN MORAL …

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