Byrne Toward Environmental Wholeness

Method in Environmental Ethics and Science
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9699-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 341 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

Offers a unified vision for approaching human ethical responses to what science is telling us about the crises facing our environment and climate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrne, Patrick H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Umweltethik, Umweltphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction Environmental Ethics as Historical

Part I: Environmental Ethics

1. From Scientific Facts to Ethical Values

2. Environmental Ethics in the Utilitarian Mode

3. Conversion to the Value of Life as a Whole

4. The Science of Ecology and Conversion to Environment as a Whole

5. Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism

6. Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism, and a Pragmatist Compromise

7. Toward the Wholeness of the Emerging Good

8. The Dialectic of Environmental Ethics

Part II: The Ethics of Climate Change

9. The Rise of Uniformitarianism

10. The Anomaly of Ice Ages

11. Joseph Fourier and the Science of Heat Dynamics

12. The Growth of the Science of Atmospheric Warming

13. The Rise of Computer Modeling

14. Going Public: Ethical Response to Climate Science

15. The Dialectic of Politics and Climate Change Science

16. Probability, Uncertainty, and Predictability in Science

17. Scientific Consensus, Trust, and Belief

18. Laudato si' and Integral Ecology

19. The United Nations Strategic Goals for Sustainable Development

Conclusion

Appendix: A Method for Environmental Ethics
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick H. Byrne is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of Analysis and Science in Aristotle, also published by SUNY Press.