In Nature's Interests?
Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics
Published on 22. October 1998
Book
Hardback
166 pages
978-0-19-510865-1 (ISBN)
Description
Gary E. Varner presents a carefully argued response to what he characterizes as "two dogmas of environmentalism" - the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. He defends a "biocentric individualist" stance that gives priority to the lives of animals with conscious desires and to certain human interests and shows that such a view is able to support the goals on the environmentalist agenda.
Reviews / Votes
This is a brave and ambitious book. It is densely argued and beautifully written. Varner's attempt to reconcile animal rights and environmentalist agendas is timely and welcome * The Philosophical Review, Vol.109, No.4, 2000 * useful contribution to the burgeoning, and increasingly respectable, field of environmental ethics. * Alan Carter, Mind Vol.109, No.435 July 2000. * this is a gritty and challenging text: it marks out a distinctive philosophical position that merits serious attention by environmentalists and animal rights supporters alike. * A Holland, Dept. of Philosophy, Lancaster University. *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
403 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-510865-1 (9780195108651)
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