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.
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"Elliot has assembled a notable set of readings."--Times Literary Supplement
"A nice collection of careful essays on a range of environmental issues."--Malcolm Munson, Greenville Technical College
"...this collection does a nice job of reflecting both the depth of the insights and some of the difficulties remaining in this area of study."--Ethics
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Robert Elliot is at University of New England.
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Interest-bearing resources are those resources like crop species, fish species, draught animal species, topsoil, genetic variation, etc. which are instrumental in changing energy (ultimately solar energy) into energy available for consumption (as food, shelter, clothing, etc.) and which are such that their capacity to supply energy for future consumption is not decreased by utilization of some of the energy they supply. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maximum sustainable yield policy, cosmic conatus, humane moralism, humane moralists, destructive utilization, human chauvinism, restoration thesis, deontological liberalism, deontological liberals, moral considerability, animal liberationists, evolutionary ecosystem, humane ethic, grey birch, animal liberation movement, land ethic, group selfishness, deep position, interfering forces, environmentalist policies, environmental ethics, environmental philosophy, preference utilitarianism, value rankings, deep ecology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sand County Almanac, Comprehensive View, Harvard University Press, Aldo Leopold, Cambridge University Press, New Deal, Oxford University Press, John Rawls, John Rodman, Peter Singer, United States, Brian Barry, Tom Regan, John Muir, John Passmore, Moral Club, Population Thinking, Princeton University Press, Ronald Dworkin, Arne Naess, Bruce Ackerman, Ernst Mayr, Garrett Hardin, Low High New!
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Interest-bearing resources are those resources like crop species, fish species, draught animal species, topsoil, genetic variation, etc. which are instrumental in changing energy (ultimately solar energy) into energy available for consumption (as food, shelter, clothing, etc.) and which are such that their capacity to supply energy for future consumption is not decreased by utilization of some of the energy they supply. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maximum sustainable yield policy, cosmic conatus, humane moralism, humane moralists, destructive utilization, human chauvinism, restoration thesis, deontological liberalism, deontological liberals, moral considerability, animal liberationists, evolutionary ecosystem, humane ethic, grey birch, animal liberation movement, land ethic, group selfishness, deep position, interfering forces, environmentalist policies, environmental ethics, environmental philosophy, preference utilitarianism, value rankings, deep ecology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sand County Almanac, Comprehensive View, Harvard University Press, Aldo Leopold, Cambridge University Press, New Deal, Oxford University Press, John Rawls, John Rodman, Peter Singer, United States, Brian Barry, Tom Regan, John Muir, John Passmore, Moral Club, Population Thinking, Princeton University Press, Ronald Dworkin, Arne Naess, Bruce Ackerman, Ernst Mayr, Garrett Hardin, Low High New!
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- A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold on 14 pages
- Ecological Feminism (Environmental Philosophies) by Karen J. Warren on 6 pages
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 6 pages
- Respect for Nature by Paul W. Taylor on 5 pages
- Obligations to Future Generations (Philosophical Monographs) by R. I. Sikora on 4 pages
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- A Radical Green Political Theory (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) by Alan Carter on 13 pages
- Ecological Relations: Towards an Inclusive Politics of the Earth (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) by Susan Board on 6 pages
- Ecocriticism (The New Critical Idiom) by Greg Garrard on 5 pages
- The Unity of Nature: Wholeness and Disintegration in Ecology and Science by Alan Marshall on 4 pages
- Environmental Ethics: An Introduction with Readings (Philosophy and the Human Situation) by John Benson on 4 pages
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