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Environmental Ethics
The Big Questions
Series: Philosophy: The Big Questions
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Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s.
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Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualises environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s.
Includes an extended introduction that provides a historical and thematic overview of the field of environmental ethics.
Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field.
Contextualises environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centred) and non-anthropocentric precedents.
Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the field by featuring seminal work from eminent philosophers, biologists, ecologists, historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, nature writers, business writers, and others.
Designed to be used with a website that contains a continuously updated archive of case studies: environmentalethics.info
Series: Philosophy: The Big Questions
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Environmental Ethics: the big questions is praised as an essential text, particularly for its comprehensive coverage of key thinkers and contributions within this evolving field. The book is noted for its diverse range of interdisciplinary papers, catering to readers from various backgrounds. Its format, clarity, and the quality of materials make it a valuable reference, and its selection of texts reflects the editor's effort and expertise, having evolved from a successful classroom course.
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ISBN: 9781405176385
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 February 2010
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Contributors:
- Edited by David R. Keller
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 191.0mm
Height: 246.0mm
Weight: 1025g
Pages: 600
About the Author
David R. Keller is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis (with Frank Golley, 2000), and co-author of Ethics in Action (with Peggy Connolly, Becky Cox-White, and Martin G. Leever, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), a case-based approach to introducing ethics and environmental issues.
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