Morality's Progress

Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

AvDale Jamieson

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Morality's Progress is the summation of nearly three decades of work by Dale Jamieson, a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The twenty-two papers here are invigoratingly diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature.The volume begins by addressing the possibility of moral progress and the value of practical ethics. It then moves on to discuss the nature of animal minds, and our moral duties with respect to animals; it concludes with essays that address larger environmental questions. Considered as a whole, Morality's Progress is an attempt to draw out the moral consequences of a thoroughgoing Darwinian Naturalism. The perspective that informs this work is philosophically naturalist, morally consequentialist, and metaethically constructivist. Jamieson's essays will convince sceptics that thinking about our moral relations to animals and nature can offer great intellectual reward, and his work here sets a challenging, controversial agenda for the future.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-11-07
Mått157 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt569 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor396
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199251452

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Preface ; 1. Morality's Progress ; 2. Is Applied Ethics Worth Doing? ; 3. Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality ; 4. Science, Knowledge, and Animal Minds ; 5. On Aims and Methods of Cognitive Ethology (with Marc Bekoff) ; 6. Cognitive Ethology at the End of Neuroscience ; 7. Pain and the Evolution of Behaviour ; 8. On the Ethics of the Use of Animals in Science (with Tom Regan) ; 9. Experimenting on Animals: A Reconsideration ; 10. Ethics and the Study of Animal Cognition (with Marc Bekoff) ; 11. Against Zoos ; 12. Zoos Revisited ; 13. Wild/Captive and Other Suspect Dualisms ; 14. Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic ; 15. Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine ; 16. Values in Nature ; 17. The City Around Us ; 18. Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming ; 19. Global Environmental Justicw ; 20. Discourse and Moral Responsibility in Biotechnical Communication ; 21. Sustainability and Beyond ; 22. Afterword: Child of the Sixties ; Bibliography ; Index

Jamieson's style of philosophising combines common-sense thinking and rigid philosophical analysis and is scientifically informed. He articulates interesting links between different thinkers. Moreover, he does not merely focus on fascinating theoretical questions but also analyses key concepts (sustainability, ecosystem health, value) in environmental discourse, investigates important case studies (zoos, animal experimentation, global warming, biotechnology) and formulates considered value judgements. As a result his philosophical essays are exceptionally accessible to and interesting for philosophers and non-philosophers alike. In brief, what one may expect of environmental ethics at its best.