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Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy

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This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well-being? Specifically, the fourteen essays collected here discuss the OC convergence hypothesisOCO put forth by Bryan NortonOCoa controversial thesis in environmental ethics about the policy implications of moral arguments for environmental protection. Historically influential essays are joined with newly-commissioned essays to provide the first sustained attempt to reconcile two long-opposed positions. Bryan Norton himself offers the bookOCOs closing essay.

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This seminal volume contains contributions from some of the most respected scholars in the field, including Donald Brown, J. Baird Callicott, Andrew Light, Holmes Rolston III, Laura Westra, and many others. Although "Nature in Common?" will be especially useful for students and professionals studying environmental ethics and philosophy, it will engage any reader who is concerned about the philosophies underlying contemporary environmental policies.

Language: English

Pages: 312

Format: ebook

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: June 30, 2014

ISBN: 1592137059

ISBN 13: 9781592137053

Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy

0/5 ( ratings)

This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well-being? Specifically, the fourteen essays collected here discuss the OC convergence hypothesisOCO put forth by Bryan NortonOCoa controversial thesis in environmental ethics about the policy implications of moral arguments for environmental protection. Historically influential essays are joined with newly-commissioned essays to provide the first sustained attempt to reconcile two long-opposed positions. Bryan Norton himself offers the bookOCOs closing essay.

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This seminal volume contains contributions from some of the most respected scholars in the field, including Donald Brown, J. Baird Callicott, Andrew Light, Holmes Rolston III, Laura Westra, and many others. Although "Nature in Common?" will be especially useful for students and professionals studying environmental ethics and philosophy, it will engage any reader who is concerned about the philosophies underlying contemporary environmental policies.

Language: English

Pages: 312

Format: ebook

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: June 30, 2014

ISBN: 1592137059

ISBN 13: 9781592137053

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