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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 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. Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric precedents Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the field by featuring seminal work from eminent philosophers, biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, nature writers, business writers, and others Designed to be used with a web-site which contains a continuously updated archive of case studies: environmentalethics.info 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 Preface xi List of Sources xiii Introduction: What is Environmental Ethics? 1 Part I Why Study Environmental Ethics? 25 George Sessions Emily Brady John Granrose Frederick Ferré J Baird Callicott Warwick Fox Eugene C Hargrove Ian Smith Isis Brook Holmes Rolston III Clare Palmer Kristin Shrader-Frechette Victoria Davion Greta Gaard Peter Singer James P Sterba Michael E Zimmerman Bryan G Norton Anthony Weston David Rothenberg Contributors to Part I 53 Part II What Is Anthropocentrism? 57 Introduction 59 1 Humans as Moral Ends 63 Thomas Aquinas 2 The Mastery of Nature 65 Francis Bacon 3 Nonhumans as Machines 69 René Descartes 4 Mechanistic Metaphysics 72 Isaac Newton 5 The Amoral Status of Nature 73 John Stuart Mill 6 Nature as Economic Resource 77 John Locke 7 Indirect Duties to Nonhumans 82 Immanuel Kant 8 In Defense of Anthropocentrism 83 Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek Part III What Is Nonanthropocentrism? 89 Introduction 91 9 Walking 93 Henry David Thoreau 10 The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West and Hetch Hetchy Valley 96 John Muir 11 Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental, Ethic? 98 Richard (Routley) Sylvan 12 Attitudes to Nature 103 John Passmore 13 Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects 110 Christopher D. Stone 14 The Varieties of Intrinsic Value 120 John O'Neill 15 Value in Nature and the Nature of Value 130 Holmes Rolston iii 16 The End of Anthropocentrism? 137 Mary Midgley 17 Is the Crown of Creation a Dunce Cap? 143 Chip Ward Part IV What Is the Scope of Moral Considerability? 147
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David R. Keller is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis (with Frank Golley, 2000), and co-author of Ethics in Action (with Peggy Connolly, Becky Cox-White, and Martin G. Leever, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), a case-based approach to introducing ethics and environmental issues.
