philosophy

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 present article offers an analysis of human surprise and ignorance in the context of environmental issues.

William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.

Does it make sense to say that one should not, or ought not, take pleasure in certain objects or events within the natural environment? Cheryl Foster explores ethical constraints on aesthetic activity and appreciation.

Should environmental philosophers—or practical conservationists—focus their attentions on particular living creatures, or on the community of which they, and we, are part?

Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.

Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought provides an inclusive and balanced survey of the major issues debated by Western environmentalists over the last three decades.

This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.

Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.