Author : J. Baird Callicott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791498378
Beyond the Land Ethic by J. Baird Callicott Pdf
CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Title A sequel to Callicott's pioneering work, In Defense of the Land Ethic, Beyond the Land Ethic engages a wide spectrum of topics central to the field, including the troubled relationship of environmental philosophy to current mainstream academic philosophy; the relationship of recent developments in evolutionary and ecological sciences to the Leopold land ethic long championed by the author; the perennial debates in environmental ethics about the ontological status of intrinsic value and the necessity of moral pluralism; the metaphysical implications of ecology and the New Physics as manifest in agriculture, medicine, and industrial technology; and the philosophical dimensions of conservation biology and "clinical ecology."