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Reflecting on Nature Readings in Environmental Ethics and Philosophy

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ISBN-10: 0199782431

ISBN-13: 9780199782437

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Lori Gruen, Dale Jamieson, Christopher Schlottmann

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Reflecting on Nature introduces readers to the fields of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, offering both classic and current readings that focus on key themes - images of nature, ethics, justice, animals, food, climate, biodiversity, aesthetics and wilderness. It helpsstudents to focus on fundamental issues within environmental philosophy and offers succinct readings that explore the central tensions and problems within environmental philosophy. The thematic organization, paired with discussions of current environmental problems, encourages students to apply their course reading and discussion to real-life problems rather than purely theoretical topics. This second edition…    
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List price: $129.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 9/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 339
Size: 9.10" wide x 7.40" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Lori Gruen is associate professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University, where she also chairs the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and directs the Ethics in Society Project. She has published widely on topics in practical ethics, including animal ethics and mind, feminist ethics and politics, and philosophy of law. She is currently engaged in ongoing collaborations with Laura Grabel addressing biological ethics.Laura Grabel is Fisk Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of biology at Wesleyan University. She has worked with embryonic stem cells for more than twenty years, and her current projects include identifying signals that promote the differentiation of embryonic…    

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Images of Nature
Introduction
"The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis"
[From] "Genesis"
Aristotle, [From] Physics
Aristotle, [From] Politics
[From] The Second Treatise of Government
[From] On the Origin of Species
"Anthropocentrism and Predation"
[From] "The Land Ethic"
[From] "Walking"
[From] Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
[From] "On Nature"
[From] Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century
[From] Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
[From] "The Golden Rule-A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis"
[From] "Being Prey"
[From] "The Basics of Deep Ecology"
[From] Silent Spring
Ethics and the Environment
Introduction
"Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental Ethic?"
"Must a Concern for the Environment Be Centered on Human Beings?"
[From] "On Being Morally Considerable"
"Normative Ethics"
"Environmental Virtue Ethics"
[From] Respect Jot Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics
[From] Beyond the Land Ethic
Justice and the Environment
Introduction
"One Community"
[From] "Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice"
"Environmental Racism"
Animals and the Environment
Introduction
"All Animals Are Equal…"
"The Moral Status of Animals"
"Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce"
"Animal Liberation Is an Environmental Ethic"
"Understanding Animal Rights Violence"
Contemporary Issues and Controversies
Food
[From] "The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture"
[From] Eating Animals
"The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals"
[From] The Ethics of What We Eat
"Eating Meat and Eating People"
"Meat and Morality: Alternatives to Factory Farming"
Wilderness
[From] The Abstract Wild
"The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature"
"Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique"
Biodiversity
"Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism"
[From] Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy
"Biodiversity"
Climate Change
[From] "Global Warming in an Unequal World"
"Ethics and Climate Change"
[From] "Climate Change Justice"
Aesthetics
"Environmental Aesthetics"
"Nature and Positive Aesthetics"
"Objectivity in Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment"