Environmental Ethics An Anthology

by Light, Andrew; Rolston, Holmes

• ISBN13: 9780631222941
• ISBN10: 0631222944
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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