Environmental Ethics

Introduction: On Ethics and Environmental Concerns, What Is Ethics? PART ONE: THEORY. I. WESTERN PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: THE ROOTS OF OUR ECOLOGICAL SITUATION. Introduction. 1. Genesis 1-3. 2. Lynn White, The Religious Roots of Our Ecological Crisis. 3. Lewis Moncrief, The Cultural Basis of Our Environmental Crisis. 4. Patrick Dobel, The Judeo-Christian Stewardship Attitudes to Nature. II. ANIMAL RIGHTS. Introduction. 5. Immanuel Kant, Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth. 6. Peter Singer, A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation. 7. Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights. 8. Mary Ann Warren, A Critique of Regan's Rights Theory. 9. Baird Callicott, Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair. 10. S. F. Sapontzis, What Animal Liberation Is and Isn't About. 11. Dale Jamieson, Against Zoos. III. NATURE HAS INTRINSIC VALUE: BIOCENTRIC AND ECOCENTRIC ETHICS, AND DEEP ECOLOGY. Introduction. A. Does Nature Have Intrinsic Value? 11. Holmes Rolston III, Naturalizing Values. 12. Ned Hettinger, A Response to Holmes Rolston III: Naturalizing Values. B. Biocentric Ethics. 13. Albert Scheitzer, Biocentrism: Reverence for Life. 15. Paul Taylor, Viocentric Egalitarianism. 16. Kenneth Goodpaster, On Being Morally Considerable. C. Ecocentric Ethics. 17. Aldo Leopold, Ecocentrism: The Land Ethic. 18. Baird Callicott, The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic. 19. Bill Throop and Ned Hettinger, Refocusing Ecocentrism and Defending Wildness. D. Deep Ecology. 20. Arne Naess, The Shallow and the Deep Long-Range Ecological Movement. 21. Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology. 22. Richard Watson, A Critique of Anti-Anthropocentric Ethics. 23. Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology. 24. John Rodman, Ecological Sensibility. 25. James Sterba, Environmental Justice: Reconciling Anthropcentric and Nonanthropocentric Ethics. IV. FEMINISM AND DEEP ECOLOGY. Introduction. 26. Karen J. Warren, The Power and Promis of Ecological Feminism. 27. Margarita Garcia Levin, A Critique of Ecofeminism. V. THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS. Introduction. 28. James Lovelock and Sidney Epton, The Quest for Gaia. 29. James W. Kirchner, The Gaia Hyptheses: Are They Testable? Are They Useful? VI. PRESERVATION OF SPECIES, NATURE, AND NATURAL OBJECTS. Introduction. 30. Donella Meadows, Biodiversity: The Key to Saving Life on Earth. 31. Lilly-Marlene Russow, Why Do Species Matter? 32. Stephen Jay Gould, The Golden Rule-A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis. (Part contents).