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"Broad in scope, this introduction to environmental ethics considers both contemporary issues and the extent of humanity's responsibility for distant future life. John Nolt, a logician and environmental ethicist, interweaves contemporary science, logical analysis, and ethical theory into the story of the expansion of ethics beyond the human species and into the far future. Informed by contemporary environmental science, the book deduces concrete policy recommendations from carefully justified ethical principles and ends with speculations concerning the deepest problems of environmental ethics. Pedagogical features include chapter outlines, annotated suggestions for further readings, the explanations of key terms when first mentioned, and an extensive glossary"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Scientific Background
• 1.1. Fact, Value And Evolution
• 1.2. Great Issues
• 1.2.1. Pollution
• 1.2.2. Threats To Human Health
• 1.2.3. Climate Change
• 1.2.4. Natural Resource Depletion
• 1.2.5. Biodiversity Loss
• 1.2.6. Population And Consumption
• 1.3. Saving The Planet
• -Or Life, Or Us
• 2. Logic, Prescriptive Reasoning, And Ethical Theories
• 2.1. Fundamentals Of Logic
• 2.2. Prescriptive Reasoning
• 2.2.1. Fallacy Of Inferring "Ought" From "Is"
• 2.2.2. Rule-Based Prescriptive Reasoning
• 2.2.3. Consequentialist Reasoning
• 2.3. Ethical Theories
• 2.3.1. Deontology
• 2.3.2. Consequentialism

• 2.3.3. Deontology And Consequentialism Contrasted And Conjoined
• 2.3.4. Virtue Theories
• 2.4. Why Care?
• 3. Near-Term Anthropocentrism
• 3.1. Anthropocentrism
• 3.2. Preference Utilitarianism
• 3.2.1. Neoclassical Economics
• 3.2.2. Tragedy Of The Commons
• 3.2.3. Environmental Economics
• 3.2.4. Ethical Critique Of Neoclassical Economics
• 3.2.5. Why Preference Satisfaction Is Not An Adequate Conception Of Value
• 3.2.8. Democracy, Considered Preferences And The Environment
• 3.3. Objective Welfare Utilitarianism
• 3.3.1. Objective Welfare Axiology And Choice Principles
• 3.3.2. Environmental Policy Implications Of Objective Welfare Utilitarianism
• 3.3.3. Critique Of Objective Welfare Utilitarianism
• 3.4. Deontology
• 3.4.1. Environmental Justice
• 3.4.2. Climate Change And International Justice
• 3.5. Other Approaches
• 3.5.1. Feminism And Ecofeminism
• 3.5.2. Care Ethics And Other Relational Ethics
• 3.5.3. Pluralism And Pragmatism
• 3.8. Beyond Near-Term Anthropocentrism
• 4. Long-Term Anthropocentrism
• 4.1. Moral Status Of Future People
• 4.1.1. Why Future People Matter
• 4.1.2. Do Future People Matter Less?
• 4.1.3. Social Discount Rates
• 4.2. Pure Intergenerational Problem
• 4.3. Communitarianism
• 4.4. Deontology
• 4.4.1. Kantian Deontology
• 4.4.2. Rawlsian Contractualist Deontology
• 4.4.3. Critique Of Deontology
• 4.5. Non-Identity Problem
• 4.8. Utilitarianism
• 4.6.1. Axiology
• 4.6.2. Choice Principles And Population Policies
• 4.8.3. Demandingness Objection
• 4.6.4. Collective Action Problems
• 4.7. Sustainability
• 4.8. Limits Of Responsibility
• 5. Animal Ethics
• 5.1. Human Treatment Of Non Human Animals
• 5.1.1. Animals In Religion
• 5.1.2. Animals In Philosophy
• 5.1.3. Animals In Science
• 5.1.4. Animals In Agriculture
• 5.2. What We Know Of Animal Consciousness
• 5.3. Moral Status Of Sentient Animals
• 5.3.1. Animal Welfare
• 5.3.2. Reasons For Excluding Non-Humans From Moral Considerability
• 5.3.3. Argument From Marginal Cases
• 5.4. Singer's Animal Liberation
• 5.4.1. Singer's Central Argument
• 5.4.2. Question Of Killing
• 5.4.3. Vegetarianism
• 5.4.4. Objections To Singer's Theory
• 5.5. Deontological Animal Ethic: Tom Regan's The Case For Animal Rights
• 5.5.1. Regan's Axiology: Inherent Value
• 5.5.2. Principle Of Equality Of Individuals
• 5.5.3. Respect Principle
• 5.5.4. Conflict-Resolution Principles
• 5.5.5. Implications And Objections
• 5.6. Varner's Rule Utilitarianism
• 5.7. Carruthers' Contractualism
• 5.8. Care Ethics
• 5.9. Rolston On Animals
• 5.10. Palmer's Relational Ethic
• 5.11. Lessons Of Animal Ethics
• 5.12. Animal Ethics For The Long Term
• 6. Ethics Of Life
• 6.1. Goods Of Their Own
• 6.2. Gandhi, Naess And Deep Ecology
• 6.3. Deontological Biocentrism
• 6.3.1. Schweitzer's Reverence For Life
• 6.3.2. Taylor's Respect For Nature
• 6.3.3. Critique Of Deontological Biocentrism
• 6.4. Consequentialist Biocentrism
• 6.4.1. Biocentric Consequentialism Vs. Utilitarianism
• 6.4.2. Welfare Of Living Beings
• 6.4.3. Comparing And Aggregating The Welfare Of Living Beings
• 6.4.4. Biocentric Consequentialist Decision-Making
• 6.4.5. Critique Of Consequenti Alist Biocentrism
• 6.5. Why Stop At Organisms?
• 6.6. Species Ethics
• 6.6.1. Rolston And The Intrinsic Value Of Species
• 6.6.2. Hargrove And Intrinsic Valuing
• 6.6.3. Species Welfare
• 6.6.4. Value Of Biodiversity
• 6.6.5. Endangered Species: Law, Ethics And Policy
• 6.7. Ecocentrism
• 6.7.1. Leopold's Land Ethic
• 6.7.2. Ecosystem Value
• 6.8. Pragmatic Critique Of Biocentrism
• 6.9. Biocentrism For The Long Term
• 7. Applications And Speculations
• 7.1. Some Clear Moral Imperatives
• 7.1.1. Eliminate The Use Of Fossil Fuels
• 7.1.2. Protect Species And Habitat
• 7.1.3. Eat Ethically
• 7.1.4. Build A Sustainable Economy
• 7.1.5. Reduce Human Population
• 7.2. Two Open Ethical Questions
• 7.2.1. Should We Generate More Nuclear Power?
• 7.2.2. Whither Conservation?
• 7.3. Philosophical Fundamentals
• 7.3.1. Justification Of Basic Moral Principles
• 7.3.2. Value Incomparability
• 7.3.3. Grand Unified Ethic?
• 7.4. Attuning Power And Care
• 7.5. Postscript.

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Author/Creator:

Nolt, John, 1950-

Languages:

English

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Item content: English

Main Work:

Environmental ethics for the long term: an introduction [by Nolt, J.]

Subjects:

Environmental ethics

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1 online resource

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GE42 .N65 2015eb

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9781317615897 (electronic bk.)
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