"Human Rights in an Ecological Era"
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
The article explores the possibilities of a new ethic that incorporates the phenomenon of environmental crisis and aims at changing people’s outlooks and behaviour.
Robert Elliot discusses anthropocentric ethics, concluding with a subjectivist account of intrinsic value.
James P. Sterba offers clarifications to Brian Steverson’s objections to his original reconciliationist argument and notion of intrinsic value.
Sarah Franklin introduces the term ‘breedwealth’ to examine Dolly as a unique form of property in order to make some of these connections more visible.
Stan Godlovitch examines “aesthetic offenses” against nature.
Robyn Eckersley discusses the concepts of “human racism” and ecocentricm in relation to Tony Lynch and David Wells’ argument that any attempt to develop a non-anthropocentric morality must invariably slide back to either anthropocentrism (either weak or strong) or a highly repugnant misanthropy in cases of direct conflict between the survival needs of humans and nonhuman species.
Jonah H. Peretti questions nativist trends in Conservation Biology that have made environmentalists biased against alien species.
Ben A. Minteer criticises the tendency in environmental ethics to demonstrate a preference for foundationalist approaches in the theoretical justification of environmentalism. He argues for a more contextual, social, and pragmatic approach.
John Andrews discusses weak panpsychism, the view that mind-like qualities are widespread in nature, in relation to environmental ethics.