Environmental Ethics : What Really Matters, What Really Works
ISBN: 9780199793518 | 0199793514
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/18/2011
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Extensively revised and expanded in this second edition, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works examines morality from an environmental perspective. Featuring seventy-one accessible selections - from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research - itaddresses both theory and practice. Asking what really matters, the first section of the book explores the abstract ideas of human value and value in nature. The second section turns to the question of what it would take to solve our real-world environmental pr... MORE
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Preface
Rules, Principles, and Integrity: A General Introduction
PART I. WHAT REALLY MATTERS? ESSAYS ON VALUE IN NATURE
Chapter 1. Where We Are and How We Got Here: The Roots of Crisis
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Guilt
Lynn White, Jr., The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis
J. Baird Callicott, Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind
* Shepard Krech, III, Pleistocene... MORE
David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Person, Polis, Planet (2008), Elements of Justice (2006), and Rational Choice and Moral Agency (1995), and coauthor of A Brief History of Liberty (2010).
Elizabeth Willott is a Principal Research Specialist in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, where she is a primary investigator on a National Science Foundation grant researching mosquito ecology in Tucson. She is also Curator of Butterfly Magic at Tucson Botanical Gardens, where she oversees the running of the butterfly display and education relative to it.
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