A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (eBook)
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-75165-7 (ISBN)
- Contains thirty-six original articles, written by international scholars.
- Traces the roots of environmental philosophy through the exploration of cultural traditions from around the world.
- Brings environmental philosophy into conversation with other fields and disciplines such as literature, economics, ecology, and law.
- Discusses environmental problems that stimulate current debates.
Dale Jamieson is Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College. He is author of Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (2002), and the editor of many books including Singer and His Critics (Blackwell, 1999). For nearly twenty years he taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has also held visiting positions at Cornell University, Monash University in Australia, and Oxford University. He works primarily in the fields of environmental philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of biology and mind.
A Companion to Environmental Philosophy is a pioneering work in the burgeoning field of environmental philosophy. This ground-breaking volume contains thirty-six original articles exemplifying the rich diversity of scholarship in this field. Contains thirty-six original articles, written by international scholars. Traces the roots of environmental philosophy through the exploration of cultural traditions from around the world. Brings environmental philosophy into conversation with other fields and disciplines such as literature, economics, ecology, and law. Discusses environmental problems that stimulate current debates.
Dale Jamieson is Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College. He is author of Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (2002), and the editor of many books including Singer and His Critics (Blackwell, 1999). For nearly twenty years he taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has also held visiting positions at Cornell University, Monash University in Australia, and Oxford University. He works primarily in the fields of environmental philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of biology and mind.
List of contributors x
Preface xv
PART I: CULTURAL TRADITIONS 1
1 Indigenous perspectives 3
LAURIE ANNE WHITT, MERE ROBERTS, WAERETE NORMAN, AND VICKI GRIEVES
2 Classical China 21
KARYN L. LA1
3 Classical India 37
0. P . DWIVEDI
4 Jainism and Buddhism 52
CHRISTOPHER KEY CHAPPLE
5 The classical Greek tradition 67
GABRIELA R. CARONE
6 Judaism 81
ERIC KATZ
7 Christianity 96
ROBIN ATTFIECD
8 Islam 111
S. NOMANUL HAQ
9 Early modern philosophy 130
CHARLES TALIAFERRO
10 Nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy 146
ANDREW BRENNAN
PART 11: CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS 161
11 Meta-ethics 163
JOHN O'NEILL
12 Normative ethics 177
ROBERT ELLIOT
13 Sentientism 192
GARY VARNER
14 The land ethic 204
J. BAIRD CALLICOTT
1 5 Deep ecology 218
FREYA MATHEWS
16 Ecofeminism 233
VICTORIA DAVION
PART 111: ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND ITS NEIGHBORS 249
17 Literature 251
SCOTT SLOVIC
18 Aesthetics 264
JOHN ANDREW FISHER
19 Economics 277
A. MYRICK FREEMAN I11
20 History 291
IAN SIMMONS
21 Ecology 304
KRISTIN SHRADER-FRECHETTE
22 Politics 316
ROBYN ECKERSLEY
23 Law 331
SHEILA JASANOFF
PART IV: PROBLEMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 347
24 Wilderness 349
MARK WOODS
2 5 Population 362
CLARK WOLF
26 Future generations 377
ERNEST PARTRIDGE
27 Sustainability 390
ALAN HOLLAND
28 Biodiversity 402
HOLMES ROLSTON I11
29 Animals 41 6
PETER SINGER
30 Environmental justice 426
ROBERT FIGUFKOA AND CLAUDIA MILLS
3 1 Technology 439
LORI GRUEN
32 Climate 449
HENRY SHUE
33 Land and water 460
PAUL B. THOMPSON
34 Consumption 473
MARK SAGOFF
3 5 Colonization 486
KEEKOK LEE
3 6 Environmental disobedience 498
NED HETTINGER
Index 510
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.4.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Companions to Philosophy |
| Blackwell Companions to Philosophy | Blackwell Companions to Philosophy |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Schlagworte | Articles • begins • burgeoning • Companion • Contains • Cultural • Diversity • environmental • Environmental Ethics • ethics • Ethik • Exploring • Field • groundbreaking • Original • Philosophie • Philosophy • pioneering • Rich • Scholarship • thirtysix • Traditions • Umweltethik • Volume • Work |
| ISBN-10 | 0-470-75165-7 / 0470751657 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-75165-7 / 9780470751657 |
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