Environmental Pragmatism

by Katz,Eric; Katz,Eric

• ISBN13: 9780415122368
• ISBN10: 0415122368
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Environmental pragmatism is a new strategy in environmental thought: it argues that theoretical debates are hindering the ability of the environmental movement to forge agreement on basic policy imperatives. This new direction in environmental philosophy moves beyond theory, advocating a serious inquiry into the practical merits of moral pluralism. Environmental pragmatism, as a coherent philosophical position, connects the methodology of classical American pragmatist thought to the explanation, solution and discussion of real issues.

Table of Contents

List of figures	x
Notes on contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: Environmental Pragmatism and Environmental Ethics as Contested Terrain	1	(20)
Andrew Light
Eric Katz
Part 1 Environmental thought and classical American philosophy
Pragmatism and Environmental Thought	21	(17)
Kelly A. Parker
How Pragmatism is an Environmental Ethic	38	(12)
Sandra B. Rosenthal
Rogene A. Buchholz
Nature as Culture: John Dewey's Pragmatic Naturalism	50	(23)
Larry A. Hickman
The Environmental Value in G. H. Mead's Cosmology	73	(11)
Ari Santas
The Constancy of Leopold's Land Ethic	84	(21)
Bryan G. Norton
Part 2 Pragmatist theory and environmental philosophy
Integration or Reduction: Two Approaches to Environmental Values	105	(34)
Bryan G. Norton
Before Environmental Ethics	139	(22)
Anthony Weston
Compatiblism in Political Ecology	161	(26)
Andrew Light
Part 3 Pragmatist approaches to environmental problems
Pragmatism and Policy: The Case of Water	187	(22)
Paul B. Thompson
Towards a Pragmatic Approach to Definition: ``Wetlands'' and The Politics of Meaning	209	(22)
Edward Schiappa
A Pluralistic, Pragmatic and Evolutionary Approach to Natural Resource Management	231	(20)
Emery N. Castle
Laws of Nature Vs. Laws of Respect: Non-Violence in Practice in Norway	251	(15)
David Rothenberg
Teaching Environmental Ethics as a Method of Conflict Management	266	(19)
Gary E. Varner
Susan J. Gilbertz
Tarla Rai Peterson
Part 4 Environmental pragmatism: an exchange
Beyond Intrinsic Value: Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics	285	(22)
Anthony Weston
Searching for Intrinsic Value: Pragmatism and Despair in Environmental Ethics	307	(12)
Eric Katz
Unfair to Swaps: a Reply to Katz Unfair to Foundations?: A Reply to Weston	319	(6)
Anthony Weston
Eric Katz
Environmental pragmatism as Philosophy or Metaphilosophy? On the Weston-Katz Debate	325	(14)
Andrew Light
Index	339