Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Simon P. James

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction: What is Environmental Philosophy?......Page 8
Nature......Page 9
Theory and practice......Page 11
Outline of chapters......Page 14
Notes......Page 16
Further reading......Page 17
Eating without pleasure, crying without pain......Page 18
Singer's utilitarian case for animal liberation......Page 22
Vegetarianism......Page 27
Summary......Page 30
Notes......Page 31
Further reading......Page 32
Racism, sexism … speciesism?......Page 34
The moral significance of killing......Page 35
Regan's case for animal rights......Page 38
Flourishing......Page 42
Duties to wild animals......Page 45
Summary......Page 49
Notes......Page 50
Further reading......Page 51
Life......Page 52
Ecosystems......Page 59
Biological species......Page 66
Summary......Page 70
Notes......Page 71
Further reading......Page 73
4: Questions of Value......Page 74
Ecosystem services and the value of places......Page 75
Objectivity and subjectivity......Page 81
Notes......Page 86
Further reading......Page 87
Environmental virtue ethics......Page 89
Buddhism and compassion......Page 93
Humility......Page 97
Attention......Page 100
Notes......Page 103
Further reading......Page 104
Disinterestedness and engagement......Page 105
Form, knowledge and the beauty of clouds......Page 111
Aesthetics and morality......Page 117
Summary......Page 122
Further reading......Page 123
Nature, revisited......Page 125
A very short history of the received wilderness idea......Page 132
Sceptical responses......Page 134
Wildness......Page 138
Environmental restoration......Page 140
Summary......Page 143
Notes......Page 144
Further reading......Page 146
8: Climate Change......Page 147
Climate change as a moral issue......Page 149
Responses......Page 150
‘My emissions make no difference’......Page 154
Population......Page 157
Obligations to future generations......Page 159
Climate change and the natural world......Page 164
Summary......Page 168
Notes......Page 169
Further reading......Page 170
References......Page 171
Index......Page 188
End User License Agreement......Page 197