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How can you use philosophical to make progress toward solving environmental problems? ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY introduces you to ethical theory in new and easily understood ways. But most of all, this environmental ethics textbook shows you how we can work together to build a better future.

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PART I Basic Concepts

(34)

Ethics, Science, and the Environment

(11)

Discussion: Technological Solutions

(2)

Introduction: Why Philosophy?

(1)

Science and Ethics

(4)

What Is Environmental Ethics?

(2)

Summary and Conclusions

(2)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

(2)

Ethical Theory and the Environment

(22)

Discussion: Individual Rights and Social Goods

(2)

Introduction

(3)

Why Ethical Theory?

(1)

Ethical Relativism

(1)

Natural Law---The Tradition of Teleology

(4)

The Utilitarian Tradition

(3)

Deontology: An Ethics of Duty and Rights

(2)

Social Justice

(3)

Summary and Conclusions

(3)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

(3)

PART II Environmental Ethics as Applied Ethics

(88)

Forests, Pollution, and Economics

(28)

Discussion: Development Versus Preservation

(2)

Introduction

(1)

Forests: Conservation or Preservation?

(2)

Managing the National Forests

(5)

Pollution and Economics

(3)

Ethical Issues in Economic Analysis

(3)

Cost-Benefit Analysis

(1)

Ethical Analysis and Environmental Economics

(5)

Sustainable Economics

(2)

Summary and Conclusions

(4)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

(3)

Ethics, Energy, and Responsibilities to Future Generations

(25)

Discussion: Greenhouse Gases and Nuclear Wastes

(2)

Introduction

(1)

Energy and Future Generations

(2)

Population Policy and Population Growth

(4)

Climate Change and Duties to Posterity

(2)

Nuclear Wastes and the Rights of Future Generations

(4)

The Rights of Future Generations

(3)

Conserving Resources and Caring for Future Generations

(3)

Summary and Conclusions

(4)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

(3)

Responsibilities to the Natural World

(19)

Discussion: Mass Extinctions

(1)

Introduction

(1)

Moral Standing in the Western Tradition

(3)

Early Environmental Ethics: Passmore and Blackstone

(5)

Moral Standing: The Recent Debate

(3)

Do Trees Have Standing?

102

(2)

Summary and Conclusions

104

(4)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

105

(3)

Responsibilities to Animals

108

(15)

Discussion: Animal Research and Factory Farming

108

(2)

Introduction

110

(1)

Peter Singer and the Animal Liberation Movement

110

(2)

Tom Regan and Animal Rights

112

(2)

Ethical Implications of Animal Welfare

114

(1)

Criticisms

115

(4)

Summary and Conclusions

119

(4)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

120

(3)

PART III Theories of Environmental Ethics

123

(132)

Biocentric Ethics and the Value of Life

124

(21)

Discussion: Biodiversity

124

(1)

Introduction

125

(2)

Instrumental Value and Intrinsic Value

127

(3)

Biocentric Ethics and the Reverence for Life

130

(3)

Ethics and Character

133

(1)

Taylor's Biocentric Ethics

134

(4)

Practical Implications

138

(3)

Summary and Conclusions

141

(4)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

142

(3)

Ecology and Ethics

145

(25)

Discussion: Yellowstone Fires and Olympic Goats

145

(2)

Introduction

147

(2)

The Value of the Wilderness

149

(1)

The Idea of the Wilderness

150

(4)

Environmentalism and the Romantic Wilderness Myth

154

(3)

From Ecology to Philosophy

157

(6)

From Ecology to Ethics

163

(2)

Varieties of Holism

165

(2)

Summary and Conclusions

167

(3)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

167

(3)

The Land Ethic

170

(28)

Discussion: A Place for Predators

170

(3)

Introduction

173

(2)

The Land Ethic

175

(3)

Leopold's Holism

178

(2)

Criticisms of the Land Ethic: Facts and Values

180

(4)

Criticisms of the Land Ethic: Holistic Ethics

184

(6)

Callicott's Revisions

190

(4)

Summary and Conclusions

194

(4)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

195

(3)

Deep Ecology

198

(22)

Discussion: Environmental Activism: Legal and Illegal

198

(3)

Introduction

201

(1)

The Deep Ecology Platform

202

(1)

Ecology and Ecophilosophy

203

(2)

Metaphysical Ecology

205

(3)

From Metaphysics to Ethics

208

(4)

Self-Realization and Biocentric Equality

212

(3)

Criticisms

215

(2)

Summary and Conclusions

217

(3)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

217

(3)

Social Ecology and Ecofeminism

220

(35)

Discussion: Sustaining Agriculture and Hugging Trees

220

(4)

Introduction

224

(2)

Theories of Social Justice

226

(2)

Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism

228

(4)

Murray Bookchin's Social Ecology

232

(3)

Critical Reflections

235

(2)

Ecofeminism: Making Connections

237

(5)

Ecofeminism: Recent Developments

242

(3)

Summary and Conclusions

245

(10)

Notes, Discussion Questions, and Further Readings

245

(5)

Epilogue Moral Pluralism---Can We Ever Agree?

250

(1)

Moral Pluralism

251

(4)

Index

255

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