PHIL 2306 (Introduction to Ethics) - Dr. A. Antoninka

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Beyond the Land Ethic engages a wide spectrum of topics central to the field, including the troubled relationship of environmental philosophy to current mainstream academic philosophy; the relationship of recent developments in evolutionary and ecological sciences to the Leopold land ethic long championed by the author; the perennial debates in environmental ethics about the ontological status of intrinsic value and the necessity of moral pluralism; the metaphysical implications of ecology and the New Physics as manifest in agriculture, medicine, and industrial technology; and the philosophical dimensions of conservation biology and "clinical ecology."

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In this expanded and revised edition of a fresh and original case-study textbook on environmental ethics, Christine Gudorf and James Huchingson continue to explore the line that separates the current state of the environment from what it should be in the future.

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Climate change is perhaps the most important issue of our time and yet the international measures necessary to mitigate it have not been implemented. Given the urgency of the problem, why has so little been done? Climate Ethics identifies the reasons behind this crucial paradox and outlines a way forward.

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This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering.

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After critical examination of the current state of relevant ecological knowledge, Gorke presents a carefully considered case for attributing intrinsic value to all of nature, including all species. At the heart of his argument is an analysis of the concept of morality. According to this analysis, the universal character of morality does not permit us to establish limits of moral considerability. More precisely, every act of exclusion from the moral community is an arbitrary act and is not compatible with a moral point of view.

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Doing Environmental Ethics offers a way to face the earth's ecological crisis that draws on environmental science, economic theory, international law, and religious teachings, as well as philosophical arguments. It engages students in constructing ethical presumptions based on our duty, our character, our relationships, and our rights.

Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates. Covers concepts, institutions, topics, events and people, including global warming, animal rights, environmental movements, alternative energy, green chemistry, industrial ecology, and eco-sabotage.

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The contributors first consider conceptual problems generated by rapid advances in biology and ecology, examining such topics as ecological communities, adaptation, and scientific consensus. The contributors then turn to epistemic and axiological issues, first considering philosophical aspects of environmental decision making and then assessing particular environmental policies (largely relating to climate change), including reparations, remediation, and nuclear power, from a normative perspective.

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Environmental protection is a global concern that must enlist all of humanity's cultural, religious, and moral resources. These essays explore the foundations of environmental ethics in the Western tradition as well as from the perspectives of Christianity, Islam, Daoism, and Buddhism and propose morally responsible attitudes towards nature and the environment.

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This book calls for a new approach to ethics. Starting from the necessity for all life of air, water, and food, the book revalues the relation of ethics and environmentalism. Using insights of the environmental ethicists, environmental ethics becomes the model for ethics as a whole.

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Ronald L. Sandler examines the value of species and the ethical significance of species boundaries and discusses what these mean for species preservation in the light of global climate change, species engineering and human enhancement. He argues that species possess several varieties of value, but they are not sacred. It is sometimes permissible to alter species, let them go extinct (even when we are a cause of the extinction) and invent new ones.

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Learn how ethical principles and concepts apply to global environmental problems. This fully updated and expanded textbook gives you new reflections on global environmental issues. It looks at issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity.

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CHAPTERS: The Nature of Natural Value - Intrinsic Value - The Intrinsic Property Constraint - The Indexical Theory of Intrinsic Value - Subjectivism, Relativism and Normative Debate - Environmental Obligation, Aesthetic Value and the Basis of Natural Value - Environmental Obligation and Consequentialism - Environmental Obligation and Deontologies - Virtue, Value and Environmental Obligation - Naturalness and Other Bases of Natural Value - Aesthetic Value and Intrinsic Value - Faking Nature

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Global Ethics and Climate Change combines the science of climate change with ethical critique to expose its impact, the increasing intensity of dangerous trends - particularly growing global affluence, material consumption and pollution - and the intensifying moral dimensions of changes to the environment. It shows you that global justice is vital to mitigating climate change.

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Introduction: towards global ethics; An outline of the problems ahead; Environmental justice challenges; Environmental justice challenges at home and abroad; Ecological balance in an era of globalization; Chernobyl, global environmental injustice and mutagenic threats; Justice, the market and climate change; Environmental justice: issues of principle; Considerations on the environment of justice; Care-sensitive ethics and situated universalism; Ethics across the species boundary; Mapping human rights

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Covers the moral relationship between humans and their natural environment, specifically targeting the contemporary green movement.

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CHAPTERS: Introduction: interests, holism, and environmental ethics - A critique of environmental holism - Localizing desire - Biological interests: questioning the mental state theory of welfare - The principles of inclusiveness: establishing priorities among interests - Can animal rights activists be environmentalists? - Justifying the environmentalist agenda - Conclusion: two dogmas of environmental ethics.

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CHAPTERS: Callicott and environmental philosophy - Ecological morality and nonmoral sentiments - How green is the theory of moral sentiments? - Ecological science, philosophy, and ecological ethics - Biocentrism, biological science, and ethical theory - Callicott on intrinsic value and moral standing in environmental ethics - Naturalizing Callicott - Epistemology and environmental values - Environmental ethics without a metaphysics - Philosophy of nature or natural philosophy? Science and philosophy in Callicott's metaphysics - Quantum physics, "postmodern scientific worldview," and Callicott's environmental ethics - Minimal, moderate, and extreme moral pluralism - Callicott and Naess on pluralism - Beyond exclusion: the importance of context in ecofeminist theory - Environmental ethics and respect for animals - J. Baird Callicott's critique of Christian stewardship and the validity of religious environmental ethics - Callicott's last stand - The very idea of wilderness

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This volume explores some recent thoughts and trends in environmental philosophy and applied ethics. The topics selected here are contemporary and offered in academic programs across the globe. This book is an essential reference work for those who are keen to conduct detailed research within the fields of environmental philosophy, environmental humanities, culture, public health, applied ethics, bioethics, and political philosophy, as well as the general reader interested in the ethical and philosophical issues that are transforming and touching our lives.

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CHAPTERS: Platonism and the gods of place - Nature for real: is nature a social construct? - Trivial and serious in aesthetic appreciation of nature - 'Admiring the high mountains': the aesthetics of environment - Sustainability and moral pluralism - How to base ethics on biology - Respect for the non-human - Conservation and animal welfare - Whaling in Sand County: the morality of Norwegian Minke whale catching - Zoos revisited.

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CHAPTERS: Ethical extension and radical environmentalism - From natural rights to the rights of nature - Ideological origins of American environmentalism - Ecology widens the circle - The greening of religion - The greening of philosophy - Liberating nature - Abolitionism, environmentalism, and the limits of American liberalism.

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This book presents a comprehensive, critical analysis of contemporary philosophical approaches to current ecological concerns. Key ideas are explained, placed in their broader cultural, religious, historical, political and philosophical context, and their environmental policy implications are outlined.

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More than two decades of international negotiations have failed to stem emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and climate change. This book identifies a way to escape this ongoing tragedy of the atmospheric commons.