Philosophy and the Environment (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements)

Cambridge University Press, 11/24/2011
EAN 9781107696075, ISBN10: 1107696070

Paperback, 300 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Language: English

Environmental questions are among the most pressing and hotly debated of our time. The issues are, in an immediate sense, political and scientific, but one's stance on them also reflects basic philosophical and ethical commitments. For its annual lecture series of 2010–11, The Royal Institute of Philosophy invited a number of distinguished philosophers and environmentalists from a wide range of backgrounds to reflect on their concerns, and this book is based on their lectures.

List of contributors
Preface
1. The future of environmental ethics Holmes Rolston, III
2. Beyond anthropocentrism Robin Attfield
3. Foundations of a general ethics
selves, sentient beings, and other responsively cohesive structures Warwick Fox
4. Darwinism and environmentalism Brian Garvey
5. The ugly truth
negative aesthetics and environment Emily Brady
6. The temporal and spatial scales of global climate change and the limits of individualistic and rationalistic ethics J. Baird Callicott
7. Moral foundations for global environmental and climate justice Chukwumerije Okereke
8. Aesthetic appreciation of nature and environmentalism Allen Carlson
9. Climate change and causal inefficacy
why go green when it makes no difference? James Garvey
10. A reasonable frugality David Wiggins
11. Carbon trading
unethical, unjust and ineffective? Simon Caney and Cameron Hepburn
12. Sustainable consumption, climate change and future generations Dieter Helm
13. Depoliticized environments
the end of nature, climate change and the post-political condition Erik Swyngedouw.