Environmental ethics

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Title:

Author:

Elliot, Robert, 1950-

ISBN:

9780198751441

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Physical Description:

vi, 255 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Series:

Oxford readings in philosophy

Series Title:

Oxford readings in philosophy

Contents:

Discounting versus maximum sustainable yield / Mary B. Williams -- Animal liberation : a triangular affair / J. Baird Callicott -- Duties to endangered species / Holmes Rolston III -- Faking nature / Robert Elliot -- Duties concerning islands / Mary Midgley -- Against the inevitability of human chauvinism / Richard Routley and Val Routley -- Attitudes to nature / John Passmore -- Value in nature and meaning in life / Freya Mathews -- Nature, self, and gender : feminism, environmental philosophy, and the critique of rationalism / Val Plumwood -- Can environmentalists be liberals? / Mark Sagoff -- Ecological theory and value in nature / Andrew A. Brennan -- Stasis : the unnatural value / Colleen D. Clements -- Philosophical problems for environmentalism / Elliott Sober.

Subject Term:

Environmental ethics.

Added Author:

Elliot, Robert, 1950-

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Summary

This latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford Readings in Philosophy series offers a selection of some of the best articles on ethics and the environment written in the last twenty years. Focusing on the philosophical issues underlying this key topic, the contributions cover duties to future people, resource conservation, species and wilderness preservation, the relevance of ecology to ethics, ecofeminism, and the tension between political liberalism and environmentalism. Including writings by Baird Callicot, Colleen D. Clements, Mary Midgley, John Passmore, Holmes Rolston III, Mark Sagoff, Elliott Sober, Mary B. Williams, Andrew Brennan, Freya Matthews, Val Plumwood, and Richard Routley, this accessible and timely book makes a perfect introduction to the main debates in this area.