J. Baird Callicott - Beyond the land ethic: more essays in environmental philosophy
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A sequel to Callicotts pioneering work, In Defense of the Land Ethic, Beyond the Land Ethic engages a wide spectrum of topics central to the field, including the troubled relationship of environmental philosophy to current mainstream academic philosophy; the relationship of recent developments in evolutionary and ecological sciences to the Leopold land ethic long championed by the author; the perennial debates in environmental ethics about the ontological status of intrinsic value and the necessity of moral pluralism; the metaphysical implications of ecology and the New Physics as manifest in agriculture, medicine, and industrial technology; and the philosophical dimensions of conservation biology and clinical ecology.
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Callicott, J. Baird. Beyond the land ethic : more essays in environmental philosophy / J. Baird Callicott. p. cm. (SUNY series in philosophy and biology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-4083-4 (hc : alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-4084-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Environmental sciencesPhilosophy. 2. Environmental ethics. I. Title. II. Series. GE40.C35 1999 179'.1.dc2198-53504 CIP
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For Evelyne Baird Callicott, my mother, who taught me the meaning of unconditional love
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction: Compass Points in Environmental Philosophy
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I Practicing Environmental Ethics
2 Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind
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3 How Environmental Ethical Theory May Be Put into Practice
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4 Holistic Environment Ethics and the Problem of Ecofascism
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II The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic Revisited
5 Just the Facts, Ma'am
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6 Can a Theory of Moral Sentiments Support a Genuinely Normative Environmental Ethic?
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7 Do Deconstructive Ecology and Sociobiology Undermine the Leopold Land Ethic?
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III Moral Monism Versus Moral Pluralism
8 The Case against Moral Pluralism
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9 Moral Monism in Environmental Ethics Defended
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IV Nature's Intrinsic Value
10 Genesis and John Muir
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11 Rolston on Intrinsic Value: A Deconstruction
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12 Intrinsic Value in Nature: A Metaethical Analysis
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V Ecological Metaphysics of Agriculture, Medicine, and Technology
13 The Metaphysical Transition in Farming: From the Newtonian-Mechanical to the Eltonian-Ecological
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