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Informationen zum Autor David R. Keller is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics, Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Utah Valley University. He is the co-author of The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis (2000). He served as Editor of Teaching Ethics, the journal of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, from Spring 2006 to Fall 2007. He has published in the journals Bioscience, Humanitas, Teaching Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Ethics and the Environment. Ecosystem Health, Essays in Philosophy, Process Papers, Encyclia, and Journal of the Utah Academy. Klappentext With its origins in the early 1970s, environmental ethics is a new philosophical discipline that addresses the complex convergence of humans with the natural world and its non-human inhabitants. Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions presents a series of interdisciplinary readings that examine the moral dimensions of the delicate relationship between human beings and the environment. Carefully chosen selections drawn from philosophy, the social and life sciences, economics, history, legal studies, business, and literature are organized clearly around the history of anthropocentric (human-centered) and non-anthropocentric origins of environmental ethics. The readings serve as an investigation of the proper scope of moral considerations relating to the environment -- one that includes humans, animals, living things, ecosystems, and the built environment. Other topics include political approaches to environmental ethics, the importance of ecological science, and contemporary public policy issues such as agriculture, sustainability, population, globalization, and injustice. Readers are also directed to an online archive of continually updated international case studies that serve to complement and explicate the theoretical discussions outlined in the text.Thought provoking and timely, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions offers illuminating insights into an issue that is becoming more critical each year. Zusammenfassung Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Preface.Part II. What is the Proper Subject-Matter of Moral Philosophy? A Brief Overview of Environmental Ethics.Part III. Why Study Environmental Ethics?.Part IV. What is Anthropocentrism?.Part V. What is Nonanthropocentrism?.Part VI. What is the Scope of Moral Considerability?.Part VII. What are Prominent Alternatives to Grounding Environmental Ethics in Moral Extensionism?.Part VIII. What are the Connections between Nature, Culture, Subjectivity, Technology and Environmental Ethics?.Part IX. What is the Use of Ecological Science for Environmental Ethics?.Part X. What are Some of the Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Public Policy?Part XI. What is the Future of Environmental Ethics?...
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Part I. Preface.
Part II. What is the Proper Subject-Matter of Moral Philosophy? A Brief Overview of Environmental Ethics.
Part III. Why Study Environmental Ethics?.
Part IV. What is Anthropocentrism?.
Part V. What is Nonanthropocentrism?.
Part VI. What is the Scope of Moral Considerability?.
Part VII. What are Prominent Alternatives to Grounding Environmental Ethics in Moral Extensionism?.
Part VIII. What are the Connections between Nature, Culture, Subjectivity, Technology and Environmental Ethics?.
Part IX. What is the Use of Ecological Science for Environmental Ethics?.
Part X. What are Some of the Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Public Policy?Part XI. What is the Future of Environmental Ethics?
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"Overall, Environmental Ethics: the big questions is an essential text for anyone looking to get to grips with key thinkers and their contributions to this new and burgeoning domain of ethics. Whilst challenging at times, the variety of papers in terms of both inter-disciplinary and difficulty is wide, allowing readers to effectively engage irrespective of background. Further, the layout is clear and general binding and page quality high to ensure this can remain an indispensable reference text for the future." ( The Guardian , 26 November 2013)
Featured in The Guardian - 26 November 2013
"Overall , Environmental Ethics: the big questionsis an essential text for anyone looking to get to grips with key thinkers and their contributions to this new and burgeoning domain of ethics. Whilst challenging at times, the variety of papers in terms of both inter-disciplinary and difficulty is wide, allowing readers to effectively engage irrespective of background. Further, the layout is clear and general binding and page quality high to ensure this can remain an indispensable reference text for many years to come." ( E conomics & Philosophy , 1 November 2013)
