Environmental Ethics

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?

"Overall, Environmental Ethics: the big questions is an essential text for anyone looking to get to grips with key thinkers and their contributions to this new and burgeoning domain of ethics. Whilst challenging at times, the variety of papers in terms of both inter-disciplinary and difficulty is wide, allowing readers to effectively engage irrespective of background. Further, the layout is clear and general binding and page quality high to ensure this can remain an indispensable reference text for the future." (The Guardian, 26 November 2013)

"Overall, Environmental Ethics: the big questions is an essential text for anyone looking to get to grips with key thinkers and their contributions to this new and burgeoning domain of ethics. Whilst challenging at times, the variety of papers in terms of both inter-disciplinary and difficulty is wide, allowing readers to effectively engage irrespective of background. Further, the layout is clear and general binding and page quality high to ensure this can remain an indispensable reference text for many years to come." (Economics & Philosophy, 1 November 2013)

"The major strength of the book is the fact that it evolved from a classroom course on environmental ethics. The different texts are selected, put together and introduced by an experienced teacher. As such, the selection of text has already proven successful and instructive. The editor has put an enormous amount of effort into selecting the right texts, which took him, according to the preface, over four years." (Ethical Perspectives, 2011)

"Environmental ethics emerged in the mid-1970s and has been
exponentially growing in volume and scope ever since. As a new
century and a new millennium dawn, environmental ethics is the
philosophy of the future, looking outward to partner with social
and life sciences, history, law, business, and literature to
provide synthesis instead of the finer and finer analysis of arcane
"puzzles" that characterized the inward-looking philosophy of the
previous century.

In the new spirit of the new philosophy of the new century, this
new textbook provides a synoptic overview of the field. The
pioneers, living and dead, are all represented along with the
emerging voices of the present. Unique to this volume is commentary
by the leading lights in the field about why environmental ethics
is a worthwhile study. That section, along with Keller's historical
and thematic overview of the field, the best yet in any textbook,
is worth the price of admission to the book."

--J Baird Callicott, Regents Professor of Philosophy,
Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of
North of Texas

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.

D. R. Keller, Utah Valley University, USA