The philosophy of the environment / / edited by T.D.J. Chappell
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| Autore: |
Chappell Sophie Grace
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| Titolo: |
The philosophy of the environment / / edited by T.D.J. Chappell
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009 |
| ©1997 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 179.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Environmental ethics |
| Ecology - Philosophy | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ChappellT. D. J (Timothy D. J.) |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Mary Midgley, Stephen Clark, J.Baird Callicott, Holmes Rolston, Dale Jamieson and John Haldane, focus on our attitudes to animals and the environment as critically determined by deeper philosophical concerns. Timothy Chappell's useful introduction provides a guide to the issues and dilemmas and links the diverse arguments and themes. Examining whaling, animal captivity, and specicism amongst other topics, this book adds substantially to the contemporary debate in environmental philosophy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The philosophy of the environment |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-0037-X |
| 0-585-10503-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779000503321 |
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