In defense of the land ethic : essays in environmental philosophy

Summary: In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy brings into a single volume J. Baird Callicott’s decade-long effort to articulate, defend, and extend the seminal environmental philosophy of Aldo Leopold. A leading voice in this new field, Callicott sounds the depths of the proverbial iceberg, the tip of which is “The Land Ethic.”

Record details

ISBN: 0887068995
ISBN: 9780887068997
ISBN: 0887069002 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780887069000 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
x, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1989.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-313) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: The real work -- 1. Animal liberation and environmental ethics -- Animal liberation: a triangle affair -- Review of Tom Regan, The case for animal rights -- Animal liberation and environment ethics: back together again -- 2. A holistic environmental ethics -- Elements of an environmental ethic: moral considerability and the biotic community -- The conceptual foundations of the land ethic -- The metaphysical implications of ecology -- 3. A non-anthropocentric value theory for environmental ethics -- Hume's is/ought dichotomy and the relation of ecology to Leopold's land ethic -- One the intrinsic value of nonhuman species -- Intrinsic value, quantum theory, and environmental ethics -- 4. American Indian environmental ethics -- Traditional American Indian and Western European attitudes toward nature: an overview -- American Indian land wisdom?: sorting out the issues -- 5. Environmental education, natural aesthetics, and E.T. -- Aldo Leopold on education, as educator, and his land ethic in the context of contemporary environmental education -- Leopold's land aesthetic -- Moral considerability and extraterrestrial life.