In Nature's Interests? Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics

Name: In Nature's Interests? Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics
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ISBN: 9780195152012

ISBN-10: 0195152018

ISBN-13: 9780195152012

Edition: 2002

Authors: Gary E. Varner

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This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that every living organism has interests which ought, other things being equal, to be protected, Varner contends that some interests take priority over others. He defends both a sentientist principle giving priority to the lives of organisms with conscious desires and an anthropocentric principle giving priority to certain very inclusive interests which only humans have. He then shows that these principles not only comport with but provide significant support…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 164
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction Interests, Holism, and Environmental Ethics



a Critique of Environmental Holism


Conclusion



Localizing Desire



Biological Interests Questioning the Mental State Theory of Welfare



the Principle of Inclusiveness Establishing Priorities Among Interests



Can Animal Rights Activists Be Environmentalists?



Justifying the Environmentalist Agenda


Conclusion Two Dogmas of Environmental Ethics


References


Index