"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.
Karen Green applies Korsgaard’s distinctions—one between intrinsic and extrinsic value, and the other between having value as an end and having value as a means—to some issues in environmental philosophy.
This paper argues that the analogy with warfare should not be used for justificatory or rhetorical purposes, but that it may nevertheless have a legitimate heuristic role to play in environmental philosophy.
This paper outlines a constructivist approach to environmental ethics which attempts to reconcile realism in the ontological sense.
In this article, David E. Cooper discusses Heidegger’s view on nature.
This paper reflects on Merleau-Ponty’s environmental thinking.
In his paper, Richard Shearman argues that a person living according to moral virtue will recognize that the nonhuman world should be valued and thus protected (at least in part) for its own sake.
This paper explores the idea that a proper valuing of natural environments is essential to (and not just a natural basis for) a broader human virtue that might be called ‘appreciation of the good’.
In this editorial, Isis Brook introduces the complex field of ethical thinking about environments and non-human entities.
This study addresses two questions: (1) what visions of nature do lay people subscribe to? (2) to what extent do these visions reflect those of professional philosophers?