Environmental Ethics

Name: Environmental Ethics
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ISBN: 9780198751441

ISBN-10: 0198751443

ISBN-13: 9780198751441

Edition: 1995

Authors: Robert Elliot

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This latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford Readings in Philosophy series offers a selection of some of the best articles on ethics and the environment written in the last twenty years. Focusing on the philosophical issues underlying this key topic, the contributions cover duties to future people, resource conservation, species and wilderness preservation, the relevance of ecology to ethics, ecofeminism, and the tension between political liberalism and environmentalism. Including writings by Baird Callicot, Colleen D. Clements, Mary Midgley, John Passmore, Holmes Rolston III, Mark Sagoff, Elliott Sober, Mary B. Williams, Andrew Brennan, Freya Matthews, Val Plumwood, and Richard Routley,…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/13/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.07" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction




Discounting Versus Maximum Sustainable Yield




Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair




Duties to Endangered Species




Faking Nature




Duties Concerning Islands




Against the Inevitability of Human Chauvinism




Attitudes to Nature




Value in Nature and Meaning in Life




Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism




Can Environmentalists be Liberals?




Ecological Theory and Value in Nature




Stasis: The Unnatural Value




Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism



Notes on the Contributors


Further Reading


Index of Names