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Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions (Philosophy: The Big Questions)

Author: David R. Keller
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: questions, philosophy, ethics, environmental
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2010-03-29
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1405176393
ISBN-13: 9781405176392

Book Description:

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.
  • Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics
  • Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field
  • Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by exploring anthropocentric (human-centered) and nonanthropocentric 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 web-site which contains a continuously updated archive of case studies


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