Beyond the land ethic : more essays in environmental philosophy /
J. Baird Callicott.
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1999.
- 1 online resource (x, 427 pages)
- SUNY series in philosophy and biology .
- SUNY series in philosophy and biology. .
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.