Beyond the land ethic : more essays in environmental philosophy
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Beyond the land ethic : more essays in environmental philosophy
(SUNY series in philosophy and biology)
State University of New York Press, c1999
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- : hc
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-400) and index
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Description
CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Title
A sequel to Callicott's pioneering work, In Defense of the Land Ethic, 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."
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Compass Points in Environmental Philosophy
I Practicing Environmental Ethics
2 Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind
3 How Environmental Ethical Theory May Be Put into Practice
4 Holistic Environment Ethics and the Problem of Ecofascism
II The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic Revisited
5 Just the Facts, Ma'am
6 Can a Theory of Moral Sentiments Support a Genuinely Normative Environmental Ethic?
7 Do Deconstructive Ecology and Sociobiology Undermine the Leopold Land Ethic?
III Moral Monism Versus Moral Pluralism
8 The Case against Moral Pluralism
9 Moral Monism in Environmental Ethics Defended
IV Nature's Intrinsic Value
10 Genesis and John Muir
11 Rolston on Intrinsic Value: A Deconstruction
12 Intrinsic Value in Nature: A Metaethical Analysis
V Ecological Metaphysics of Agriculture, Medicine, and Technology
13 The Metaphysical Transition in Farming: From the Newtonian-Mechanical to the Eltonian-Ecological
14 Environmental Wellness
15 After the Industrial Paradigm, What?
VI Toward a New Philosophy of Conservation
16 Whither Conservation Ethics?
17 Aldo Leopold's Concept of Ecosystem Health
18 The Value of Ecosystem Health
19 Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation Concept
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