04845nam 22006975 450 991029940060332120200706093807.03-319-71443-010.1007/978-3-319-71443-1(CKB)3790000000544704(DE-He213)978-3-319-71443-1(MiAaPQ)EBC5214994(PPN)223958085(EXLCZ)99379000000054470420180103d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Theoretical Individual Imagination, Ethics and the Future of Humanity /by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (XV, 138 p.) 3-319-71442-2 How can the one influence the many? From posing seminal questions about what comprises a human individual, to asking whether human evolution is alive and well, favoring individuals or the species, this work is a daring, up-to-the-minute overview of an urgent, multidisciplinary premise. It explores the extent to which human history provides empirical evidence for the capacity of an individual to exert meaningful suasion over their species, and asks: Can an individual influence the survival of the human species and the planet?   If there are to be cultures of transformation dedicated to seeing us all through the Sixth Extinction Spasm, the Anthropocene, inflicting as little biological havoc as possible, what might such orientations—a collective, widespread biophilia, or reverence for nature—look like? In this powerful work, with a combination of data and direct observation, the authors invite readers to explore how such transformations might resonate throughout the human community; in what ways a person might overcome the seemingly insurmountable environmental tumult our species has unleashed; the clear and salient motives, ethics, aspirations and pragmatic idealism he/she might mirror and embrace in order to effect a profound difference—at the individual level—for all of life and life’s myriad habitats. Chapters illuminate an ambitiously broad digest of research from two-dozen disciplines. Those include ecodynamics, biosemiotics, neural plasticity, anthropology, paleontology and the history of science, among others. All converge upon a set of ethics-based scenarios for mitigating ecological damage to ourselves and other life forms.   This highly readable and tightly woven treatise speaks to scientists, students and all those who are concerned about ethical activism and the future of the biosphere. Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison are ecological philosophers and animal liberation activists who have worked for decades to help enrich our understanding of ecosystem dynamics and humanity’s ambiguous presence amid that great orchestra that is nature.NatureEnvironmentPhilosophyLife sciencesConservation biologyEcology Environmental sciences—PhilosophyPhilosophy of naturePopular Science in Nature and Environmenthttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q16000Popular Science in Philosophyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q21000Popular Life Scienceshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q25000Conservation Biology/Ecologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L19150Environmental Philosophyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U37000Philosophy of Naturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34040Nature.Environment.Philosophy.Life sciences.Conservation biology.Ecology .Environmental sciences—Philosophy.Philosophy of nature.Popular Science in Nature and Environment.Popular Science in Philosophy.Popular Life Sciences.Conservation Biology/Ecology.Environmental Philosophy.Philosophy of Nature.500Tobias Michael Charlesauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut871373Morrison Jane Grayauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910299400603321The Theoretical Individual2508590UNINA