Environmental Ethics An Anthology [Paperback]

Environmental Ethics: An Anthology brings together both classic and cutting-edge essays which have formed contemporary environmental ethics, ranging from the welfare of animals versus ecosystems to theories of the intrinsic value of nature.

Introduction to the Volume: Ethics and Environmental Ethics (Andrew Light and Holmes Rolston III).

Part I: What is Environmental Ethics? An Introduction.

1. An Overview of Environmental Ethics (Clare Palmer).

2. The Land Ethic (Aldo Leopold).

3. Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental, Ethic? (Richard Sylvan).

Part II: Who Counts in an Environmental Ethics? Animals? Plants? Ecosystems?.

4. Not for Humans Only: The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues (Peter Singer).

5. Animal Rights: What's in a Name? Plus a brief extract from The Case for Animal Rights (Tom Regan).

6. The Ethics of Respect for Nature (Paul Taylor).

7. Is There a Place for Animals in the Moral Consideration of Nature? (Eric Katz).

8. Can Animal Rights Activists Be Environmentalists? (Gary Varner).

9. Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems (Harley Cahen).

Part III: Is Nature Intrinsically Valuable?.

10. Varieties of Intrinsic Value (John O'Neill).

11. Value in Nature and the Nature of Value (Holmes Rolston, III).

12. Source and Locus of Intrinsic Value (Keekok Lee).

13. Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism (Bryan Norton).

14. Weak Anthropocentric Intrinsic Value (Eugene Hargrove).

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