Ethics of the Environment

Author of Environmental Ethics (Blackwell/Polity 2003) contracted for Creation, Evolution and Meaning - Ashgate 2006.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Values and the Environment: Is there a need for a new, an environmental, ethic?, Richard Sylvan (Routley); Is there an ecological ethic?, Holmes Rolston III; Anthropocentrism, atomism, and environmental ethics, Donald Scherer; Postmodernism, value, and objectivity, Robin Attfield; Why environmental ethics shouldn't give up on intrinsic value, Katie McShane; Nature - every last drop of it - is good, Alan Holland. Part II The Land Ethic and Deep Ecology: The land ethic, Aldo Leopold; The shallow and the deep, long range ecology movement: a summary, Arne Naess; Hume's Is/Ought dichotomy and the relation of ecology to Leopold's land ethic, J. Baird Callicott; The land ethic and Callicott's ethical system (1980-2001): an overview and critique, Y.S. Lo; The inadequacy of Callicott's ecological communitarianism, Darren Domsky; Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation: a 3rd World critique, Ramachandra Guha; Nature, self and gender; feminism, environmental philosophy and the critique of rationalism, Val Plumwood; Beasts versus the biosphere?, Mary Midgley. Part III Biocentric Approaches: On being morally considerable, Kenneth E. Goodpaster; The ethics of respect for nature, Paul W. Taylor; The nature and possibility of an environmental ethic, Tom Regan; Biocentric individualism, Gary Varner; A biocentrist strikes back, James B. Sterba. Part IV Virtue Ethics and Human Values: Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments, Thomas E. Hill Jr; Environmental ethics and weak anthropocentrism, Bryan G. Norton; Must a concern for the environment be centred on human beings?, Bernard Williams; When utilitarians should be virtue theorists, Dale Jamieson. Part V Equity and the Future: Nuclear energy and obligations to the future, R. and V.Routley; Why care about the future?, Ernest Partridge; Global environment and international inequality, Henry Shue; Adaptation, mitigation and justice, Dale Jamieson; Giving a