Ethics and the Environment - An Introduction

List of contents

1. The Environment as an Ethical Question; 2. Human Morality; 3. Moral Philosophy; 4. Normative Ethics; 5. Humans and Other Animals; 6. Animals, Food and the Environment; 7. The Value of Nature; 8. The Plurality of Values; 9. California Conflicts; 10. Nature's Future; 11. How Should I Live?

About the author

Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy Emeritus at New York University. He is the author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed-and What It Means for Our Future (2014); Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (2002); and the co-editor of Environment and Society: A Reader (2017).

Summary

A new edition of a widely used and cited introduction to ethics and the environment. It relates the field to broader issues of philosophy and ethics, and also discusses environmental concepts such as the Anthropocene, and environmental problems such as climate change and conservation.

Foreword

This lively introduction relates environmental ethics to the discipline of philosophy and to important environmental questions and conflicts.

Product details

• Authors: Dale Jamieson, Dale (New York University) Jamieson, Jamieson Dale
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2023
• EAN: 9781108994392
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99439-2
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Applied Ethics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, The environment, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Science / Environmental Science