Environmental Ethics

The Big Questions

Keller, David R. (Herausgeber)

Philosophy: The Big Questions

1. Auflage Februar 2010
600 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-7638-5

John Wiley & Sons

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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.

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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.
* Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics
* Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field
* Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric precedents
* Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the field by featuring seminal work from eminent philosophers, biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, nature writers, business writers, and others
* Designed to be used with a web-site which contains a continuously updated archive of case studies

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?

David R. Keller is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics, Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Utah Valley University. He is the co-author of The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis (2000). He served as Editor of Teaching Ethics, the journal of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, from Spring 2006 to Fall 2007. He has published in the journals Bioscience, Humanitas, Teaching Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Ethics and the Environment. Ecosystem Health, Essays in Philosophy, Process Papers, Encyclia, and Journal of the Utah Academy.

D. R. Keller, Utah Valley University, USA