"Getting Behind Environmental Ethics"
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.
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.
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.
Carrie L. Hull discusses debates taking place among environmental scientists, providing a brief overview of the history of the formalist tendency in philosophy, and an illustration of the ways in which advocates of a strict laboratory methodology implicitly rely on this foundation.
Brian Baxter responds to Onora O’Neill’s argument that environmental ethics could and should be reformulated in terms of a search for the obligations held by moral agents towards each other, with respect to the non-human world.
Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.
Michael Lockwood synthesizes insights from philosophy, psychology, and economics towards an understanding of how humans value nature.
Allan Greenbaum discusses environmental thought as cosmological intervention.
Alan Carter seeks to advance our understanding of some of the possibilities within Humean moral theory, while simultaneously providing new foundations for both animal welfare and a wider environmental ethic.
Peter Alward examines a naive argument against moral vegetarianism.
H.A.E. Zwart discusses Ibsen’s The Wild Duck as the origin of a new animal science.