Environmental Ethics An Anthology

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Pub. Date: 2002-08-16
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Environmental Ethics: An Anthology brings together seminal writings on the central questions in environmental ethics. The book comprises both classic and cutting-edge essays that have formed contemporary environmental ethics, ranging from the welfare of animals versus ecosystems to theories of the intrinsic value of nature. The volume also discusses alternatives to traditional environmental ethics, including deep ecology, ecofeminism, and environmental pragmatism; and presents important works on particular environmental issues, such as wilderness preservation and global climate change. Additional editorial material provides a helpful overview of the field and points to new directions and controversies shaping the relationship between humans and nature into the future. Specifically designed for course use, Environmental Ethics: An Anthology provides an excellent introduction, at once accessible and thorough, to this increasingly important and urgent area of study.

Author Biography

Andrew Light is Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy at New York University, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Lancaster University, UK. He has edited or co-edited thirteen books, including Environmental Pragmatism (1996), Social Ecology after Bookchin (1999), and Technology and the Good Life (2000). He is also co-editor of the journal Philosophy and Geography and President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.

Holmes Rolston III is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is often called “the father of environmental ethics” as an academic discipline and was featured in Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (2001). He is author of numerous books including Philosophy Gone Wild (1986), Environmental Ethics (1988), Conserving Natural Value (1997), and Genes, Genesis and God (1999). He is past president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: Ethics and Environmental Ethics 1(12)
Andrew Light
Holmes Rolston III
Part I What is Environmental Ethics? 13(40)
An Overview of Environmental Ethics
15(23)
Clare Palmer
The Land Ethic
38(9)
Aldo Leopold
Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental, Ethic?
47(6)
Richard Sylvan
Part II Who Counts in Environmental Ethics -- Animals? Plants? Ecosystems? 53(76)
Not for Humans Only: The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues
55(10)
Peter Singer
Animal Rights: What's in a Name? with a brief extract from The Case for Animal Rights
65(9)
Tom Regan
The Ethics of Respect for Nature
74(11)
Paul W. Taylor
Is There a Place for Animals in the Moral Consideration of Nature?
85(10)
Eric Katz
Can Animal Rights Activists Be Environmentalists?
95(19)
Gary E. Varner
Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems
114(15)
Harley Cahen
Part III Is Nature Intrinsically Valuable? 129(62)
The Varieties of Intrinsic Value
131(12)
John O'Neill
Value in Nature and the Nature of Value
143(11)
Holmes Rolston III
The Source and Locus of Intrinsic Value: A Reexamination
154(9)
Keekok Lee
Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism
163(12)
Bryan G. Norton
Weak Anthropocentric Intrinsic Value
175(16)
Eugene Hargrove
Part IV Is There One Environmental Ethic? Monism versus Pluralism 191(58)
Moral Pluralism and the Course of Environmental Ethics
193(10)
Christopher D. Stone
The Case against Moral Pluralism
203(17)
J. Baird Callicott
Minimal, Moderate, and Extreme Moral Pluralism
220(9)
Peter S. Wenz
The Case for a Practical Pluralism
229(20)
Andrew Light
Part V Reframing Environmental Ethics: What Alternatives Exist? 249(82)
Deep Ecology
251(1)
Deep Ecology: A New Philosophy of our Time?
252(10)
Warwick Fox
The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects
262(14)
Arne Naess
Ecofeminism
275(1)
Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health
276(18)
Greta Gaard
Lori Gruen
Ecological Feminism and Ecosystem Ecology
294(13)
Karen J. Warren
Jim Cheney
Environmental Pragmatism
306(1)
Beyond Intrinsic Value: Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics
307(12)
Anthony Weston
Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics: Democracy, Pluralism, and the Management of Nature
319(12)
Ben A. Minteer
Robert E. Manning
Part VI Focusing on Central Issues: Sustaining, Restoring, Preserving Nature 331(118)
Is Sustainability Possible?
333(1)
The Ethics of Sustainable Resources
334(25)
Donald Scherer
Toward a Just and Sustainable Economic Order
359(12)
John B. Cobb, Jr.
Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
371(10)
Dale Jamieson
Can and Ought We Restore Nature?
380(1)
Faking Nature
381(9)
Robert Elliot
The Big Lie: Human Restoration of Nature
390(8)
Eric Katz
Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature: A Pragmatic Perspective
398(15)
Andrew Light
Should We Preserve Wilderness?
412(1)
An Amalgamation of Wilderness Preservation Arguments
413(24)
Michael P. Nelson
A Critique of and an Alternative to the Wilderness Idea
437(7)
J. Baird Callicott
Wilderness -- Now More Than Ever: A Response to Callicott
444(5)
Reed F. Noss
Part VII What on Earth Do We Want? Human Social Issues and Environmental Values 449(78)
Feeding People versus Saving Nature?
451(12)
Holmes Rolston III
Saving Nature, Feeding People, and Ethics
463(9)
Robin Attfield
Integrating Environmentalism and Human Rights
472(6)
James W. Nickel
Eduardo Viola
Environmental Justice: An Environmental Civil Rights Value Acceptable to All World Views
478(9)
Troy W. Hartley
Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice
487(13)
Brian Barry
Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy
500(16)
Bryan G. Norton
Bruce Hannon
Environmental Awareness and Liberal Education
516(11)
Andrew Brennan
Index 527

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