animals

Natural scientific paper from 1753 with an illustration of a full-grown crocodile and a hatching baby as well as a lizard, reportedly the crocodile’s main food.

In this paper, Elisa Aaltola analyses the new ‘other animal ethics’ by critically examining its basis and consequences.

Jac A. A. Swart points at the fact that environmental ethics has to deal with the challenge of reconciling contrasting ecocentric and animal-centric perspectives and analyse the two classic attempts at this reconciliation.

In this essay, Nicole Klenk uses different interpretations of nature to make three distinct but related points relevant to forestry.

This paper addresses the leitmotif of Alan Holland’s work, which is argued here to be a defence of the existence and worth of nonhuman nature.

This paper discusses two central themes of the work of Alan Holland: the relations between the natural and the normative and how our duties regarding animals cohere with our obligations to respect nature.

Onora O’Neill discusses environmental values and anthropocentrism and speciesism, with reference to obligation-based reasoning.

In this essay, Freya Mathews argues that the moral point of view involves a feeling for the inner reality of others and explains the consequences of this idea for other-than-human life forms and systems.

Christopher J. Preston uses studies of the embodied mind to show that rationality is integrally connected to our animal and animate nature and hence not a significant point of departure between human and non-human animals.

John A. Curtis argues that there may be instances where assessing wildlife for monetary valuation might be quite reasonable and useful for public policy, even when there are strong arguments against valuation of wildlife and nature.