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Earth summit ethics : toward a reconstructive postmodern philosophy of environmental education / edited by J. Baird Callicott and Fernando J.R. da Rocha.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in constructive postmodern thoughtPublication details: New York : State University of New York Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585036209
  • 9780585036205
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Earth summit ethics.DDC classification:
  • 179/.1 20
LOC classification:
  • GE42 .E25 1996eb
Other classification:
  • B82-058
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: ethics, university, and environment / J. Baird Callicott and Fernando J.R. Da Rocha -- Science, technology, economics, ethics, and environment / Jos�e Lutzenberger -- The Ethics of dialogue and the environment: solidarity as a foundation for environmental ethics / Nichol�as M. Sosa -- What can universities and professional schools do to save the environment? / Peter Madsen -- Incontinence, self-deception, shallow analysis, myth-making, and economic rationality: their bearing on environmental policy / Andrew Brennan -- Ethics, politics, science, and the environment: concerning the natural contract / Catherine Larr�ere -- Benevolent symbiosis: the philosophy of conservation reconstructed / J. Baird Callicott -- Earth ethics: a challenge to liberal education / Holmes Rolston -- Afterword: university education in sustainable development and environmental protection / John Lemons -- Appendix: The Porto Alegre declaration.
Summary: On the eve of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Fernando J.R. da Rocha challenged environmental philosophers to suggest and develop effective ways in which universities might engender ecological literacy and environmental ethics. The result was a pre-conference held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, whose aim was to put the summit in philosophical perspective, influence its outcome, and chart a new course, linking environment and ethics through university education. This book is an outgrowth of the Porto Alegre conference, and the international environmental philosophers and educators represented here inaugurate a constructive dialogue that will continue well into the twenty-first century. Among the contributors to the volume are environmental philosophers Andrew Brennan, J. Baird Callicott, Fernando J.R. da Rocha, and Holmes Ralston, III, and education theorists Peter Madsen and John Lemons. In addition, the book introduces English-language readers to the work of French philosopher Catherine Larrere, Spanish philosopher Nicholas Sosa, and Brazil's radical former Secretary for the Environment and deep ecologist Jose Lutzenberger.
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"Selected bibliography on University-level Environmental Education": pages 225-229.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: ethics, university, and environment / J. Baird Callicott and Fernando J.R. Da Rocha -- Science, technology, economics, ethics, and environment / Jos�e Lutzenberger -- The Ethics of dialogue and the environment: solidarity as a foundation for environmental ethics / Nichol�as M. Sosa -- What can universities and professional schools do to save the environment? / Peter Madsen -- Incontinence, self-deception, shallow analysis, myth-making, and economic rationality: their bearing on environmental policy / Andrew Brennan -- Ethics, politics, science, and the environment: concerning the natural contract / Catherine Larr�ere -- Benevolent symbiosis: the philosophy of conservation reconstructed / J. Baird Callicott -- Earth ethics: a challenge to liberal education / Holmes Rolston -- Afterword: university education in sustainable development and environmental protection / John Lemons -- Appendix: The Porto Alegre declaration.

Print version record.

On the eve of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Fernando J.R. da Rocha challenged environmental philosophers to suggest and develop effective ways in which universities might engender ecological literacy and environmental ethics. The result was a pre-conference held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, whose aim was to put the summit in philosophical perspective, influence its outcome, and chart a new course, linking environment and ethics through university education. This book is an outgrowth of the Porto Alegre conference, and the international environmental philosophers and educators represented here inaugurate a constructive dialogue that will continue well into the twenty-first century. Among the contributors to the volume are environmental philosophers Andrew Brennan, J. Baird Callicott, Fernando J.R. da Rocha, and Holmes Ralston, III, and education theorists Peter Madsen and John Lemons. In addition, the book introduces English-language readers to the work of French philosopher Catherine Larrere, Spanish philosopher Nicholas Sosa, and Brazil's radical former Secretary for the Environment and deep ecologist Jose Lutzenberger.

English.

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