Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking

by Palmer, Clare

• ISBN13: 9780198269526
• ISBN10: 0198269528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-14
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

In this study, Clare Palmer challenges the belief that the process thinking of writers like A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne has offered an unambiguously positive contribution to environmental ethics. She compares process ethics to a variety of other forms of environmental ethics, as well as deep ecology, and reveals a number of difficulties associated with process thinking about the environment.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
1. Process Thinking, the Creation of Value, and Approaches to Ethics	1	(29)
2. Process Thinking, Individualist Consequentialism, and Animals	30	(28)
3. Process Thinking and Individualist Deontological Environmental Ethics	58	(58)
4. Process Thinking and Collectivist Environmental Ethics	116	(48)
5. Whitehead's Philosophy and the Deep Ecology Movement	164	(48)
Conclusions	212	(12)
References	224	(11)
Index	235