Environmental ethics : what really matters, what really works / David Schmidtz ; Dan C. Shahar.
2019
179.1 E61 2019
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Title
Environmental ethics : what really matters, what really works / David Schmidtz ; Dan C. Shahar.
Edition
Third edition.
ISBN
9780190259228 paperback
0190259221 paperback
0190859431 loose-leaf
9780190859435 loose-leaf
0190259221 paperback
0190859431 loose-leaf
9780190859435 loose-leaf
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
x, 646 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
179.1 E61 2019
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1029060677
(OCoLC)1029060677
(OCoLC)1029060677
Summary
Significantly revised in this third edition, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works examines morality from an environmental perspective. Featuring accessible selections--from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research--it addresses 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 really works--what it would take to solve our real-world environmental problems. Moving beyond the "hype," it presents authoritative essays on applying environmental ethics to the issues that matter right now. The selections present philosophical, biological, and socially scientific approaches to the major issues. Environmental Ethics also features first-hand descriptions from people who have actually been involved in wildlife and conservation initiatives. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Preface
New to the third edition
Instructor resources
Introduction: Some thoughts on ethics
1. How we got here. "Old world roots of opinion" / Roderick Frazier Nash ; "Man and nature" / George Perkins Marsh ; "Nature" / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; "Principles of conservation" / Gifford Pinchot ; "The Hetch Hetchy Valley" / John Muir ; "The Hetch Hetchy Dam Site : hearing before the House Committee on the Public Lands" / Gifford Pinchot ; "The land ethic" / Aldo Leopold
I. What really matters : essays on value in nature. Editorial: The last man and the search for objective value
2. Humility and control. For discussion : Guilt ; Genesis 1:20-31 ; "On nature" / John Stuart Mill ; "The historical roots of our ecological crisis" / Lynn White Jr. ; "Thinking like a mountain" / Aldo Leopold ; "Silent spring" / Rachel Carson
3. Human beings. A. Human suffering: "Famine, affluence, and morality" / Peter Singer ; "Living on a lifeboat" / Garrett Hardin ; "Women, poverty, and population : issues for the concerned environmentalist" / Gita Sen ; "Feeding people versus saving nature?" / Holmes Rolston III
B. Human excellence: "Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments" / Thomas E. Hill Jr. ; "Thoreau, Leopold, and Carson : toward an environmental virtue ethics" / Philip Cafaro ; "Finding value in nature" / Thomas E. Hill Jr.
4. Animal suffering. A. Traditional perspectives: "Whether it is unlawful to kill any living thing" / Thomas Aquinas ; "Duties towards animals" / Immanuel Kant ; "Can they suffer?" / Jeremy Bentham
B. Contemporary perspectives: For discussion: Respect for animals ; "All animals are equal" / Peter Singer ; "The case for animal rights" / Tom Regan ; "Speciesism and the idea of equality" / Bonnie Steinbock ; "Animal liberation and environmental ethics : bad marriage, quick divorce" / Mark Sagoff
5. Life. For discussion: Equal respect ; "A moment on the Earth" / Gregg Easterbrook ; "The ethics of respect for nature" / Paul W. Taylor ; "Biocentric individualism" / Gary Varner ; "Are all species equal?" / David Schmidtz
6. Wilderness. "Value in nature and the nature of value" / Holmes Rolston III ; "Holistic environmental ethics and the problem of ecofascism" / J. Baird Callicott ; "Refocusing ecocentrism : de-emphasizing stability and defending wildness" / Ned Hettinger and Bill Throop
7. Nature. For discussion: How wild does nature have to be? ; "What's wrong with plastic trees?" / Martin Krieger ; "The call of the wild : the struggle against domination and the technological fix of nature" / Eric Katz ; "Can an environmental paradise be regained? The Hetch Hetchy Valley question" / David Pitcher and Jennifer Welchman ; "Restoring nature, without mosquitoes?" / Elizabeth Willott ; "Being prey" / Val Plumwood ; "The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement : a summary" / Arne Naess ; "Deep ecology" / Bill Devall and George Sessions ; "Social ecology versus deep ecology" / Murray Bookchin
II. What really works : essays on human ecology. Editorial: Reflections on what works
8. Toward a humane environmentalism. A. Ecology and imperialism. "Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation : a third world critique" / Ramachandra Guha ; "When preservationism doesn't preserve" / David Schmidtz ; "The elephant management dilemma" / Ian John Whyte
B. Conflicting values, conflicting priorities. "Deep ecology revisited" / Ramachandra Guha ; "Natural enemies : an anatomy of environmental conflict" / David Schmidtz ; "The forest for the trees" / Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger ; "Global environment and international inequality" / Henry Shue
9. Feminist ecological ethics. "Three models of oppression" / Daniel Silvermint ; "Women farmers of India's Deccan Plateau : ecofeminists challenge world elites" / V. Rukmini Rao ; "Feminism and ecofeminism" / Kristen Hessler and Elizabeth Willott ; "The power and the promise of ecological feminism" / Karen J. Warren
10. Land. "The tragedy of the commons" / Garrett Hardin ; "The institution of property" / David Schmidtz ; "Liberty, property, and environmentalism" / Carol M. Rose ; "Liberty, markets, and environmental values" / Mark Pennington
11. At what cost? "Simple problems, simple solutions" / J. H. Dales ; "Cost-benefit analysis : an ethical critique" / Steven Kelman ; "Environmental justice" / Kristin Shrader-Frechette ; "A place for cost-benefit analysis" / David Schmidtz
12. Food. "Animal rights : the abolitionist approach" / Gary L. Francione and Anna E. Charlton ; "Is it wrong to eat meat from factory farms? If so, why?" / Mark Bryant Budolfson ; "Eating meat and eating people" / Cora Diamond ; "The (agri)cultural contradictions of obesity" / Michael Pollan ; "On the ethics of ranching" / Paul Schwennesen
13. Being a citizen of the world. A. Working together: "Philosophical problems for environmentalism" / Elliott Sober ; "Toward unity among environmentalists" / Bryan G. Norton ; "Anthropocentrism vs. nonanthropocentrism : why should we care?" / Katie McShane ; "Choices, consequences, and cooperative conservation : a new environmentalism?" / Lynn Scarlett
B. Taking responsibility: "Ethical obligations in a tragedy of the commons" / Baylor L. Johnson ; "Bearing the weight of the world : on the extent of an individual's environmental responsibility" / Ty Raterman ; "Treading lightly on the climate in a problem-ridden world" / Dan Shahar
14. Caring for the climate. "Ethics, public policy, and global warming" / Dale Jamieson ; "The climate challenge" / Philip Kitcher ; "Justice in climate change mitigation and adaptation policies" / Darrel Moellendorf ; "The most important thing about climate change" / John Broome ; "Cool it" / Bjorn Lomborg
15. Urban ecology and modern life. "Urban ecology" / Adriana Zuniga-Teran ; "Making waste management pay" / Lynn Scarlett ; "Deep economy" / Bill McKibben ; "The virtue of simplicity" / Joshua Colt Gambrel and Philip Cafaro ; "Do we consume too much?" / Mark Sagoff ; "Letting the world grow old" / Freya Mathews ; "Walkable neighborhoods" / Adriana Zuniga-Teran
16. Taking action. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" / Paul Watson ; "Environmental philosophy is environmental activism : the most radical and effective kind" / J. Baird Callicott ; "The missing shade of green" / Kate Rawles ; "Taking environmental ethics public" / Andrew Light
New to the third edition
Instructor resources
Introduction: Some thoughts on ethics
1. How we got here. "Old world roots of opinion" / Roderick Frazier Nash ; "Man and nature" / George Perkins Marsh ; "Nature" / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; "Principles of conservation" / Gifford Pinchot ; "The Hetch Hetchy Valley" / John Muir ; "The Hetch Hetchy Dam Site : hearing before the House Committee on the Public Lands" / Gifford Pinchot ; "The land ethic" / Aldo Leopold
I. What really matters : essays on value in nature. Editorial: The last man and the search for objective value
2. Humility and control. For discussion : Guilt ; Genesis 1:20-31 ; "On nature" / John Stuart Mill ; "The historical roots of our ecological crisis" / Lynn White Jr. ; "Thinking like a mountain" / Aldo Leopold ; "Silent spring" / Rachel Carson
3. Human beings. A. Human suffering: "Famine, affluence, and morality" / Peter Singer ; "Living on a lifeboat" / Garrett Hardin ; "Women, poverty, and population : issues for the concerned environmentalist" / Gita Sen ; "Feeding people versus saving nature?" / Holmes Rolston III
B. Human excellence: "Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments" / Thomas E. Hill Jr. ; "Thoreau, Leopold, and Carson : toward an environmental virtue ethics" / Philip Cafaro ; "Finding value in nature" / Thomas E. Hill Jr.
4. Animal suffering. A. Traditional perspectives: "Whether it is unlawful to kill any living thing" / Thomas Aquinas ; "Duties towards animals" / Immanuel Kant ; "Can they suffer?" / Jeremy Bentham
B. Contemporary perspectives: For discussion: Respect for animals ; "All animals are equal" / Peter Singer ; "The case for animal rights" / Tom Regan ; "Speciesism and the idea of equality" / Bonnie Steinbock ; "Animal liberation and environmental ethics : bad marriage, quick divorce" / Mark Sagoff
5. Life. For discussion: Equal respect ; "A moment on the Earth" / Gregg Easterbrook ; "The ethics of respect for nature" / Paul W. Taylor ; "Biocentric individualism" / Gary Varner ; "Are all species equal?" / David Schmidtz
6. Wilderness. "Value in nature and the nature of value" / Holmes Rolston III ; "Holistic environmental ethics and the problem of ecofascism" / J. Baird Callicott ; "Refocusing ecocentrism : de-emphasizing stability and defending wildness" / Ned Hettinger and Bill Throop
7. Nature. For discussion: How wild does nature have to be? ; "What's wrong with plastic trees?" / Martin Krieger ; "The call of the wild : the struggle against domination and the technological fix of nature" / Eric Katz ; "Can an environmental paradise be regained? The Hetch Hetchy Valley question" / David Pitcher and Jennifer Welchman ; "Restoring nature, without mosquitoes?" / Elizabeth Willott ; "Being prey" / Val Plumwood ; "The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement : a summary" / Arne Naess ; "Deep ecology" / Bill Devall and George Sessions ; "Social ecology versus deep ecology" / Murray Bookchin
II. What really works : essays on human ecology. Editorial: Reflections on what works
8. Toward a humane environmentalism. A. Ecology and imperialism. "Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation : a third world critique" / Ramachandra Guha ; "When preservationism doesn't preserve" / David Schmidtz ; "The elephant management dilemma" / Ian John Whyte
B. Conflicting values, conflicting priorities. "Deep ecology revisited" / Ramachandra Guha ; "Natural enemies : an anatomy of environmental conflict" / David Schmidtz ; "The forest for the trees" / Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger ; "Global environment and international inequality" / Henry Shue
9. Feminist ecological ethics. "Three models of oppression" / Daniel Silvermint ; "Women farmers of India's Deccan Plateau : ecofeminists challenge world elites" / V. Rukmini Rao ; "Feminism and ecofeminism" / Kristen Hessler and Elizabeth Willott ; "The power and the promise of ecological feminism" / Karen J. Warren
10. Land. "The tragedy of the commons" / Garrett Hardin ; "The institution of property" / David Schmidtz ; "Liberty, property, and environmentalism" / Carol M. Rose ; "Liberty, markets, and environmental values" / Mark Pennington
11. At what cost? "Simple problems, simple solutions" / J. H. Dales ; "Cost-benefit analysis : an ethical critique" / Steven Kelman ; "Environmental justice" / Kristin Shrader-Frechette ; "A place for cost-benefit analysis" / David Schmidtz
12. Food. "Animal rights : the abolitionist approach" / Gary L. Francione and Anna E. Charlton ; "Is it wrong to eat meat from factory farms? If so, why?" / Mark Bryant Budolfson ; "Eating meat and eating people" / Cora Diamond ; "The (agri)cultural contradictions of obesity" / Michael Pollan ; "On the ethics of ranching" / Paul Schwennesen
13. Being a citizen of the world. A. Working together: "Philosophical problems for environmentalism" / Elliott Sober ; "Toward unity among environmentalists" / Bryan G. Norton ; "Anthropocentrism vs. nonanthropocentrism : why should we care?" / Katie McShane ; "Choices, consequences, and cooperative conservation : a new environmentalism?" / Lynn Scarlett
B. Taking responsibility: "Ethical obligations in a tragedy of the commons" / Baylor L. Johnson ; "Bearing the weight of the world : on the extent of an individual's environmental responsibility" / Ty Raterman ; "Treading lightly on the climate in a problem-ridden world" / Dan Shahar
14. Caring for the climate. "Ethics, public policy, and global warming" / Dale Jamieson ; "The climate challenge" / Philip Kitcher ; "Justice in climate change mitigation and adaptation policies" / Darrel Moellendorf ; "The most important thing about climate change" / John Broome ; "Cool it" / Bjorn Lomborg
15. Urban ecology and modern life. "Urban ecology" / Adriana Zuniga-Teran ; "Making waste management pay" / Lynn Scarlett ; "Deep economy" / Bill McKibben ; "The virtue of simplicity" / Joshua Colt Gambrel and Philip Cafaro ; "Do we consume too much?" / Mark Sagoff ; "Letting the world grow old" / Freya Mathews ; "Walkable neighborhoods" / Adriana Zuniga-Teran
16. Taking action. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" / Paul Watson ; "Environmental philosophy is environmental activism : the most radical and effective kind" / J. Baird Callicott ; "The missing shade of green" / Kate Rawles ; "Taking environmental ethics public" / Andrew Light
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