Environmental Philosophy
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Deep Ecology
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Environmental Issues
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Ethical Holism
Future People
Gm Food
Good Life
Human Suffering
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Inherent Worth
Land Ethic
living
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Natural Beauty
Nature's Laws
Nature’s Laws
Non-instrumental Values
Non-living Things
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Non-sentient Things
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- ISBN 9781902683201
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This introduction to the philosophy of the environment examines current debates on how we should think about the natural world and our place within it. The subject is examined from a determinedly analytic philosophical perspective, focusing on questions of value, but taking in attendant issues in epistemology and metaphysics as well. The book begins by considering the nature, extent and origin of the environmental problems with which we need to be concerned. Chapters go on to consider familiar strategies for dealing with environmental problems, and then consider what sort of things are of direct moral concern, examining in turn at animals, non-sentient life-forms, natural but non-living things and deep ecology. The final part of the book investigates notions of value, natural beauty and the place of human beings in the scheme of things.
Christopher Belshaw is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Staff Tutor with the Open University.
