1. Edition - February 2010
32.90 Euro
2010. 608 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-7638-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-7638-5 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions offers the most comprehensive overview of classical contributions and fundamental issues in this field. It offers interdisciplinary essays on Environmental Ethics contextualized within the history of the Western intellectual tradition and introduces readers to the increasingly relevant ethical questions concerning the effects of human judgment and action on nonhuman nature. Featuring seminal work not only from philosophers, but also eminent biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, sociologists, and nature writers, Environmental Ethics is an indispensible guide to this important area of study.

From the contents
Part I. Preface.

Part II. What is the Proper Subject-Matter of Moral Philosophy? A Brief Overview of Environmental Ethics.

Part III. Why Study Environmental Ethics?.

Part IV. What is Anthropocentrism?.

Part V. What is Nonanthropocentrism?.

Part VI. What is the Scope of Moral Considerability?.

Part VII. What are Prominent Alternatives to Grounding Environmental Ethics in Moral Extensionism?.

Part VIII. What are the Connections between Nature, Culture, Subjectivity, Technology and Environmental Ethics?.

Part IX. What is the Use of Ecological Science for Environmental Ethics?.

Part X. What are Some of the Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Public Policy?Part XI. What is the Future of Environmental Ethics?