An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy

An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy

Author: Anthony Weston

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780195122039

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This short, accessible, and provocative work is a perfect invitation to the burgeoning field of environmental ethics. It motivates the basic questions, tells compelling stories, and offers a range of philosophical responses -- not as antagonists, but as complementary exploratory strategies -- central to this growing topic. The book is built around five individually authored chapters, each a unique contribution by a major author in the field. Responding to readers' actual questions and concerns, An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy offers a compelling and intriguing gateway into the field.


An Invitation to Environmental Sociology

An Invitation to Environmental Sociology

Author: Michael Mayerfeld Bell

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1452275785

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“This is not only the best environmental sociology text I’ve used, but it is the best text of any type I’ve used in college-level teaching.” –Dr. Cliff Brown, University of New Hampshire Join author Mike Bell and new co-author Loka Ashwood as they explore “the biggest community of all” and bring out the sociology of environmental possibility. The highly-anticipated Fifth Edition of An Invitation to Environmental Sociology delves into this rapidly changing and growing field in a clear and artful manner. Written in a lively, engaging style, this book explores the broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology books. The Fifth Edition contains new chapters entitled “Money and Markets,” “Technology and Science,” and “Living in An Ecological Society.” In addition, this edition brings in fresh material on extraction between core and periphery countries, the industrialization of agriculture, the hazards of fossil fuel production, environmental security, and making environmentalism normal.


Elemental Philosophy

Elemental Philosophy

Author: David Macauley

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2010-09-29

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1438432461

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Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the four elements through the history of ideas, Macauley generates a new vocabulary for and a fresh vision of the environment while engaging the elemental world directly with reflections on their various manifestations.


An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy

An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy

Author: Anthony Weston

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780195122046

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This short, accessible, and provocative work is a perfect invitation to the burgeoning field of environmental ethics. It raises basic questions, tells compelling stories, and offers a range of philosophical responses. The book is built around five individually authored chapters, each a unique contribution by a major author in the field. 8 photos.


Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics

Author: Bob Jickling

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 199120129X

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This well-constructed, and highly original, sourcebook integrates educational materials for teaching environmental ethics with theoretical reflections. The book is set to contribute immensely to its aim of taking ethics out of philosophy departments and putting it into the streets, into villages, and on the Earth—to make ethics an everyday activity, not something left to experts and specialists. Context-based activities are presented in almost every chapter. While it acknowledges foundational theories in environmental ethics, and the work that they continue to do, it wholeheartedly embraces a growing body of literature that emphasises contextual, process-oriented, and place-based approaches to ethical reflection, deliberation, and action. It walks on the ground and isn’t afraid to get a little dirty or to seek joy in earthly relationships. And it ultimately breaks with much Western academic tradition by framing “ethics in a storied world”, thus making room to move beyond Euro-American perspectives in environmental issues. This work will be of interest to school teachers and other non-formal and informal educators, teacher educators, college instructors, university professors, and other professionals who wish to bring environmental ethics to the forefront of their pedagogical practices.


A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Author: Dale Jamieson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 0470751657

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A Companion to Environmental Philosophy is a pioneering work in the burgeoning field of environmental philosophy. This ground-breaking volume contains thirty-six original articles exemplifying the rich diversity of scholarship in this field. Contains thirty-six original articles, written by international scholars. Traces the roots of environmental philosophy through the exploration of cultural traditions from around the world. Brings environmental philosophy into conversation with other fields and disciplines such as literature, economics, ecology, and law. Discusses environmental problems that stimulate current debates.


Thinking Like a Mall

Thinking Like a Mall

Author: Steven Vogel

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2015-05

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0262029103

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A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment. Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,” as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the “environment”—that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit. We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold urged) as like a mall. Shopping malls, too, are part of the environment and deserve as much serious consideration from environmental thinkers as do mountains. Vogel argues provocatively that environmental philosophy, in its ethics, should no longer draw a distinction between the natural and the artificial and, in its politics, should abandon the idea that something beyond human practices (such as “nature”) can serve as a standard determining what those practices ought to be. The appeal to nature distinct from the built environment, he contends, may be not merely unhelpful to environmental thinking but in itself harmful to that thinking. The question for environmental philosophy is not “how can we save nature?” but rather “what environment should we inhabit, and what practices should we engage in to help build it?”


The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher

Author: Anthony Weston

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780791476703

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Collected essays present Weston’s pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction and imagination rather than deconstruction and analysis.


Ethics and the Environment

Ethics and the Environment

Author: Dale Jamieson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-01-24

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1139467883

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What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. Topics discussed include the environment as an ethical question, human morality, meta-ethics, normative ethics, humans and other animals, the value of nature, and nature's future. The discussion is accessible and richly illustrated with examples. The book will be valuable for students taking courses in environmental philosophy, and also for a wider audience in courses in ethics, practical ethics, and environmental studies. It will also appeal to general readers who want a reliable and sophisticated introduction to the field.


Understanding Environmental Philosophy

Understanding Environmental Philosophy

Author: Andrew Brennan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1317492234

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Environmental philosophy is one of the exciting new fields of philosophy to emerge in the last forty years. "Understanding Environmental Philosophy" presents a comprehensive, critical analysis of contemporary philosophical approaches to current ecological concerns. Key ideas are explained, placed in their broader cultural, religious, historical, political and philosophical context, and their environmental policy implications are outlined. Central ideas and concepts about environmental value, individual wellbeing, ecological holism and the metaphysics of nature set the stage for a discussion of how to establish moral rules and priorities, and whether it is possible to transcend human-centred views of the world. The reader is also helped with an annotated guide to further reading, questions for discussion and revision as well as boxed studies highlighting key concepts and theoretical material. A clear and accessible introduction to this most dynamic of subjects, "Understanding Environmental Philosophy" will be invaluable for a wide range of readers.