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Environmental Philosophy : Reason, Nature and Human Concern

By Christopher Belshaw

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2001
ISBN
9781317490043, 9781902683201
LCC
BD581 .B396 2014
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2631837 bytes)
Pages
337\0
Time added
2023-08-07 10:50:11
Philosophy

Description

This introduction to the philosophy of the environment examines current debates on how we should think about the natural world and our place within it. The subject is examined from a determinedly analytic philosophical perspective, focusing on questions of value, but taking in attendant issues in epistemology and metaphysics as well. The book begins by considering the nature, extent and origin of the environmental problems with which we need to be concerned. Chapters go on to consider familiar strategies for dealing with environmental problems, and then consider what sort of things are of direct moral concern, examining in turn at animals, non-sentient life-forms, natural but non-living things and deep ecology. The final part of the book investigates notions of value, natural beauty and the place of human beings in the scheme of things.

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