Ethics and the Environment
Ethics and the Environment
This new edition of a widely used and cited introduction to ethics and the environment offers a broad and lively discussion of nature's future, focusing on climate change, conservation, and justice for both our contemporaries and future generations. It discusses the nature of environmental problems and their relationship to economics, religion, technology, and aesthetics. It includes incisive discussions of our moral relations with other animals, and of how animals are used in our food systems. It also provides a deep discussion of the value of nature, which takes up ecofeminist and deep ecology views as well as sentientism and biocentrism. It discusses the plurality of values, and applies this analysis to some conflicts from the author's home state of California. The volume is comprehensively revised and updated, with several new chapters, and concludes with a compelling discussion of the question “How should I live?” in this new epoch of the Anthropocene.
- Recognises that ethical decision-making about the environment relies on a deep and rigorous understanding of the empirical background and relevant facts
- Demonstrates how questions of ethics are at the centre of thinking about environmental problems
- Sensitizes the reader to the difficult trade-offs involved in environmental decision-making
Reviews & endorsements
‘The material covered in the chapters on ethics is essential to a proper understanding of ethics and the environment and the chapter on animals is a clear and concise account of that very relevant topic. Add those elements to the illuminating discussion of the value of nature and the result is a book that can be recommended with confidence to anyone interested in learning about ethics, the environment and the interaction between them.' The Times Literary Supplement
‘Here, at long last, is an excellent single-author text that can be used in undergraduate environmental ethics courses in tandem with one of the many good anthologies of landmark essays. Jamieson offers a welcome new volume for those in search of accessible, sophisticated and sustained discussions of the ethical perspectives that inform the discipline.' Choice
‘I could go on and on about why I found the highly acclaimed and easy-to-read second edition of Dale Jamieson's widely used Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction to be a uniquely educational and inspirational book. My simple and humble advice is to read it and share it widely - it's that good.’ Marc Bekoff, Psychology Today
‘Jamieson has offered us an impressively up-to-date an introduction to ethics and major environmental issues, and a spirited defense of a meaningful life in the Anthropocene. He succeeds brilliantly in introducing students, who may know nothing of Mill, Kant, Singer, Leopold, or the naturalistic fallacy, to ethics, environmental philosophy, and the challenges of the Anthropocene. His metaethical framework provides a robust and dynamic backbone to the inquiry. This is philosophy at its pedagogical finest: accessible yet sophisticated, practical yet profound.’ Nicolas Delon, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Product details
November 2024Hardback
9781108834179
290 pages
250 × 175 × 20 mm
0.643kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. The Environment as an Ethical Question
- 2. Human Morality
- 3. Moral Philosophy
- 4. Normative Ethics
- 5. Humans and Other Animals
- 6. Animals, Food and the Environment
- 7. The Value of Nature
- 8. The Plurality of Values
- 9. California Conflicts
- 10. Nature's Future
- 11. How Should I Live?
