Philosophy and the Natural Environment

by Robin Attfield , Andrew Belsey

• ISBN13: 9780521469036
• ISBN10: 0521469031
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this volume leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the value of nature, the concept of the environment, and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications of these concepts. Philosophers have to some extent neglected the study of nature and the natural environment, and this collection not only provides a long-overdue contribution to that study, but also points to inadequacies of much contemporary ethical and political theory. For environmentalists who are not philosophers, it will stimulate reflection on their own concepts and principles.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of contributors, Introduction ROBIN ATTFIELD and ANDREW BELSEY

Value in nature and the nature of value HOLMES ROLSTON III

Ecology and the ethics of environmental restoration ROBERT ELLIOT

Rehabilitating nature and making nature habitable ROBIN ATTFIELD

Personalistic organicism: paradox or paradigm? FREDERICK FERRÉ

Values, reasons and the environment ROGER CRISP

Awe and humility: intrinsic value in nature: beyond an earthbound environmental ethics KEEKOK LEE

The end of anthropocentrism? MARY MIDGELY

Global religion STEPHEN R. L. CLARK

Kant and the moral considerability of non-rational beings TIM HAYWARD

The idea of the environment NIGEL DOWER

Chaos and order, environment and anarchy ANDREW BELSEY

Natural capital ALAN HOLLAND

Some philosophical assessments of environmental disobedience PETER LIST

Global environmental justice DALE JAMIESON

Environmental and medical bioethics in late modernity: Anthony Giddens, genetic engineering and the post-modern state RUTH McNALLY and PETER WHEALE

Highlights and connections FREDERICK FERRÉ

Bibliography