Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics

Avram Hiller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University, USARamona Ilea is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pacific University, USALeonard Kahn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, New Orleans, USA

• Introduction: Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics Avram Hiller and Leonard Kahn Part I: Environmental Value and Its Structure 1. The Bearers of Value in Environmental Ethics Katie McShane 2. Can Biocentric Consequentialism Meet Pluralist Challenges? Robin Attfield 3. System Consequentialism Avram Hiller 4. Indirect, Multidimensional Consequentialism Alan Carter 5. Why Leave Nature Alone? Ben Bradley Part II: Consequentialism and Environmental Decision-making 6. On Some Limitations of Consequentialism in the Sphere of Environmental Ethics Alan Holland 7. Evaluative Uncertainty, Environmental Ethics, and Consequentialism Krister Bykvist 8. Future Generations and Resource Shares Allen Habib 9. Can We Remediate Wrongs? Benjamin Hale 10. Moral Bookkeeping, Consequentialism, and Carbon Offsets Julia Driver 11. John Stuart Mill's Green Liberalism and Ecofeminism Wendy Donner

"...this volume…contains several thought-provoking ideas that deserve to be seriously considered by scholars interested in environmental ethics. The level of argumentation is high, and the authors mean exactly what they write." -- Martin Peterson, Eindhoven University of Technology in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"This collection has a number of strengths. Many contributors focus on ethical theory and consequentialism generally, rather than environmental ethics; thus this book reflects greater attention to broader theoretical issues than some similar anthologies do. Additionally, since much of the work in environmental ethics does not come from a consequentialist perspective, this volume provides a distinct way of thinking about and responding to various issues in that field. Given the relative scarcity of works that address these issues from a consequentialist perspective, and given the high quality of the papers throughout, this book will be a valuable acquisition for academic libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- M A. Michael, Austin Peay State University, in CHOICE