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Zusatztext Jamieson's style of philosophical analysiscombines commonsense thinking and rigid philosophical analysis and is scientifically informedhis philosophical essays are exceptionally accessible to and interesting for philosophers and non-philosophers alike. In brief, what one may expect of environmental ethics at its best. Informationen zum Autor Dale Jamieson is Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Klappentext Morality's Progress is the summation of nearly three decades of work by a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The twenty-two papers here are invigoratingly diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature. Jamieson's direct and accessible essays will convince sceptics that thinking about these relations offers great intellectual reward, and his work here sets a challenging, controversial agenda for the future. Zusammenfassung This volume is the summation of nearly three decades of work by a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The 22 papers are diverse! but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Morality's Progress 2: Is Applied Ethics Worth Doing? 3: Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality 4: Science, Knowledge, and Animal Minds 5: On Aims and Methods of Cognitive Ethology (with Marc Bekoff) 6: Cognitive Ethology at the End of Neuroscience 7: Pain and the Evolution of Behaviour 8: On the Ethics of the Use of Animals in Science (with Tom Regan) 9: Experimenting on Animals: A Reconsideration 10: Ethics and the Study of Animal Cognition (with Marc Bekoff) 11: Against Zoos 12: Zoos Revisited 13: Wild/Captive and Other Suspect Dualisms 14: Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic 15: Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine 16: Values in Nature 17: The City Around Us 18: Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming 19: Global Environmental Justicw 20: Discourse and Moral Responsibility in Biotechnical Communication 21: Sustainability and Beyond 22: Afterword: Child of the Sixties Bibliography Index ...
