Refounding Environmental Ethics
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Refounding Environmental Ethics

Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice

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eBook - PDF

Refounding Environmental Ethics

Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice

About this book

Providing a bold and original rethinking of environmental ethics, Ben Minteer's Refounding Environmental Ethics will help ethicists and their allies resolve critical debates in environmental policy and conservation practice.

Minteer considers the implications of John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy for environmental ethics, politics, and practice. He provides a new and compelling intellectual foundation for the field—one that supports a more activist, collaborative and problem-solving philosophical enterprise.

Combining environmental ethics, democratic theory, philosophical pragmatism, and the environmental social sciences, Minteer makes the case for a more experimental, interdisciplinary, and democratic style of environmental ethics—one that stands as an alternative to the field's historically dominant "nature-centered" outlook.

Minteer also provides examples of his pragmatic approach in action, considering a wide range of application and issues, including invasive species, ecological research, biodiversity loss, protected area management, and conservation under global climate change.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Foundations Old and New
  4. 2. Democracy and Environmental Ethics: A Justification
  5. 3. The Public and Its Environmental Problems
  6. 4. Intrinsic Value for Pragmatists
  7. 5. Natural Piety, Environmental Ethics, and Sustainability
  8. 6. Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics: A Pragmatic Reconciliation
  9. 7. Pluralism, Contextualism, and Natural Resource Management: Getting Empirical in Environmental Ethics
  10. 8. A Practical Ethics for Ecologists and Biodiversity Managers
  11. 9. Conservation after Preservation
  12. References
  13. Index