Environmental Ethics

An Anthology
Herausgegeben von Light, Andrew; Rolston, Holmes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Environmental Ethics: An Anthology brings together both classic and cutting-edge essays which have formed contemporary environmental ethics, ranging from the welfare of animals versus ecosystems to theories of the intrinsic value of nature.
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Featuring the best of traditional and contemporary approaches to environmental philosophy, "Environmental Ethics: An Anthology" brings together seminal writings on the central questions in environmental ethics.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 171mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 970g
• ISBN-13: 9780631222941
• ISBN-10: 0631222944
• Artikelnr.: 13587372

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Volume: Ethics and Environmental Ethics.

Part I: What is Environmental Ethics? An Introduction.

Part II: Who Counts in an Environmental Ethics? Animals? Plants?Ecosystems?.

Part III: Is Nature Intrinsically Valuable?.

Part IV: Is There One Environmental Ethic? Monism versusPluralism.

Part V: Reframing Environmental Ethics: What AlternativesExist?.

Part VI: Focusing on Central Issues: Sustaining, Restoring,Preserving Nature.

Part VII: What on Earth Do We Want? Human Social Issues andEnvironmental Values.

Rezensionen

" Environmental Ethics ranks with the best of recent collections and will make an excellent course text. The skillful blend of classic and contemporary essays generates a clear sense both of the ongoing debates and the developing agenda of the subject, and demonstrates its growing importance for social decision-making." Alan Holland, Lancaster University, UK

"This anthology will get environmental ethics unstuck. It contains all the landmarks of the first great period of environmental ethics, but also fresh and provocative reflections that will steer the enterprise out of its present self-absorption and in socially trenchant and politically fruitful directions." Albert Borgmann, University of Montana

" Environmental Ethics is comprehensive, assembles both classics and new initiatives, and is organized so as to throw into clear relief the focal issues and critical debates that define the field. It is an invaluable guide for navigating the rapidly changing terrain that is environmental ethics, and one that pushes the field forward on a number of important fronts." Alison Wylie, Washington University, St. Louis