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100 _aJamieson, Dale
245 _aEthics and the Environment: An Introduction
260 _aNew York
_bCambridge University Press
_c2008
300 _a221p
505 _a1 The environment as an ethical question 1.1 Nature and the Environment 1.2 Dualism and ambivalence 1.3 Environmental problems 1.4 Questions of scale 1.5 Types of harm 1.6 Causes of environmental problems 1.7 The role of technology 1.8 The economic perspective 1.9 Religion and Worldviews 1.10 Ethics, aesthetics, and values 2 Human morality 2.1 The nature and functions of morality 2.2 Challenges to Morality 2.3 Amoralism 2.4 Theism 2.5 Relativism 2.6 What these challenges teach us 3 Meta-ethics 3.1 The structure of the field 3.2 Realism 3.3 Subjectivism 3.4 The sensible centre 3.5 Intrinsic value 4 Normative ethics 4.1 Moral theories 4.2 Consequentialism 4.3 Virtue ethics 4.4 Kantianism 4.5 Practical ethics 5 Humans and other animals 5.1 Speciesism 5.2 Animals and Moral Theory 5.3 Using animals 5.4 Animals and other values 6 The value of nature 6.1 Biocentrism 6.2 Ecocentrism 6.3 Valuing reconsidered 6.4 The plurality of values 6.5 Conflicts and trade-offs 7 Nature's future 7.1 Travails of the biosphere 7.2 Questions of justice 7.3 Visions of the future 7.4 Conclusion
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