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The environment : philosophy, science, and ethics /
Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers' invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the central philosophical problem posed by the environment involves not what it can teach us about ourselves and our place in the cosmic or...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The environment : how to understand it and what to do about it
- 2. The concept of the environment in evolutionary theory
- 3. What if ecological communities are not wholes?
- 4. The environment, from a behavioral perspective
- 5. Systems theory and the new ecophilosophy
- 6. Situated adaptationism
- 7. Thinking ecologically : the legacy of Rachel Carson
- 8. Climate, consensus, and contrarians
- 9. Nature as the school of the moral world : Kant on taking an interest in natural beauty
- 10. Precaution has its reasons
- 11. Add to cart? environmental "amenities" and cost-benefit analysis
- 12. Can we, and should we, make reparation to "nature"?
- 13. Getting the bad out : remediation technologies and respect for others
- 14. Emissions, economics, and equity : problems with nuclear solutions to climate change
- 15. On the need for front-line climate ethi.