The Philosophy of the Environment / / Sophie Grace Chappell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Chappell, Sophie Grace ,
• MitwirkendeR: Callicott, J. Baird,; Chappell, Timothy,; Clark, Stephen R. L.,; Haldane, John,; Hepburn, Ronald W.,; Jamieson, Dale,; Midgley, Mary,; Rawles, Kate,; Rolston, Holmes,; Sprigge, Timothy L. S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Leto izdaje: 2022
• Jezik: English
• Fizični opis: 1 online resource (192 p.)

Environmental concerns and the complex issues and dilemmas raised by animal rights pose fundamental questions for philosophers. The essays in this welcome collection put environmental thinking into the broader context of philosophical thought. Distinguished contributions from key thinkers, including...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION: RESPECTING NATURE ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING IN THE LIGHT OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY
• 1 PLATONISM AND THE GODS OF PLACE
• 2 NATURE FOR REAL: IS NATURE A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT?
• 3 TRIVIAL AND SERIOUS IN AESTHETIC APPRECIATION OF NATURE
• 4 ‘ADMIRING THE HIGH MOUNTAINS’: THE AESTHETICS OF ENVIRONMENT
• 5 SUSTAINABILITY AND MORAL PLURALISM
• 6 HOW TO BASE ETHICS ON BIOLOGY
• 7 RESPECT FOR THE NON-HUMAN
• 8 CONSERVATION AND ANIMAL WELFARE
• 9 WHALING IN SAND COUNTY: THE MORALITY OF NORWEGIAN MINKE WHALE CATCHING
• 10 ZOOS REVISITED
• INDEX OF NAMES