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Beyond the land ethic : more essays in environmental philosophy / J. Baird Callicott.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in philosophy and biologyPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 427 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058509103X
  • 9780585091037
  • 9780791440834
  • 0791440834
  • 9780791440841
  • 0791440842
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond the land ethic.DDC classification:
  • 179/.1 21
LOC classification:
  • GE40 .C35 1999eb
Other classification:
  • CC 7200
  • 5,1
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: Compass Points in Environmental Philosophy -- I. Practicing Environmental Ethics. 2. Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind. 3. How Environmental Ethical Theory May Be Put into Practice. 4. Holistic Environment Ethics and the Problem of Ecofascism -- II. The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic Revisited. 5. Just the Facts, Ma'am. 6. Can a Theory of Moral Sentiments Support a Genuinely Normative Environmental Ethic? 7. Do Deconstructive Ecology and Sociobiology Undermine the Leopold Land Ethic? -- III. Moral Monism Versus Moral Pluralism. 8. The Case against Moral Pluralism. 9. Moral Monism in Environmental Ethics Defended -- IV. Nature's Intrinsic Value. 10. Genesis and John Muir. 11. Rolston on Intrinsic Value: A Deconstruction. 12. Intrinsic Value in Nature: A Metaethical Analysis -- V. Ecological Metaphysics in Agriculture, Medicine, and Technology. 13. The Metaphysical Transition in Farming: From the Newtonian-Mechanical to the Eltonian-Ecological. 14. Environmental Wellness. 15. After the Industrial Paradigm, What? -- VI. Toward a New Philosophy of Conservation. 16. Whither Conservation Ethics? 17. Aldo Leopold's Concept of Ecosystem Health. 18. The Value of Ecosystem Health. 19. Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation Concept.
Review: "A sequel to Callicott's pioneering work, In Defense of the Land Ethic, Beyond the Land Ethic engages a wide spectrum of topics central to the field, including the troubled relationship of environmental philosophy to current mainstream academic philosophy; the relationship of recent developments in evolutionary and ecological sciences to the Leopold land ethic long championed by the author; the perennial debates in environmental ethics about the ontological status of intrinsic value and the necessity of moral pluralism; the metaphysical implications of ecology and the New Physics as manifest in agriculture, medicine, and industrial technology; and the philosophical dimensions of conservation biology and "clinical ecology.""--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-400) and index.

1. Introduction: Compass Points in Environmental Philosophy -- I. Practicing Environmental Ethics. 2. Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind. 3. How Environmental Ethical Theory May Be Put into Practice. 4. Holistic Environment Ethics and the Problem of Ecofascism -- II. The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic Revisited. 5. Just the Facts, Ma'am. 6. Can a Theory of Moral Sentiments Support a Genuinely Normative Environmental Ethic? 7. Do Deconstructive Ecology and Sociobiology Undermine the Leopold Land Ethic? -- III. Moral Monism Versus Moral Pluralism. 8. The Case against Moral Pluralism. 9. Moral Monism in Environmental Ethics Defended -- IV. Nature's Intrinsic Value. 10. Genesis and John Muir. 11. Rolston on Intrinsic Value: A Deconstruction. 12. Intrinsic Value in Nature: A Metaethical Analysis -- V. Ecological Metaphysics in Agriculture, Medicine, and Technology. 13. The Metaphysical Transition in Farming: From the Newtonian-Mechanical to the Eltonian-Ecological. 14. Environmental Wellness. 15. After the Industrial Paradigm, What? -- VI. Toward a New Philosophy of Conservation. 16. Whither Conservation Ethics? 17. Aldo Leopold's Concept of Ecosystem Health. 18. The Value of Ecosystem Health. 19. Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation Concept.

"A sequel to Callicott's pioneering work, In Defense of the Land Ethic, Beyond the Land Ethic engages a wide spectrum of topics central to the field, including the troubled relationship of environmental philosophy to current mainstream academic philosophy; the relationship of recent developments in evolutionary and ecological sciences to the Leopold land ethic long championed by the author; the perennial debates in environmental ethics about the ontological status of intrinsic value and the necessity of moral pluralism; the metaphysical implications of ecology and the New Physics as manifest in agriculture, medicine, and industrial technology; and the philosophical dimensions of conservation biology and "clinical ecology.""--Jacket.

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