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An international group of environmental philosophers and educators propose ways universities can produce and promote ecological literacy and environmental ethics.
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Author: J. Baird Callicott , Fernando J. R. da Rocha
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
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Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9780791430545
ISBN 10: 0791430545
Pages: 247
Publication Date: 12 September 1996
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Format: Paperback
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Table of Contents
Preface Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethics, University, and Environment J. BAIRD CALLICOTT AND FERNANDO J. R. DA ROCHA Chapter 2 Science, Technology, Economics, Ethics, and Environment JOSE LUTZENBERGER Chapter 3 The Ethics of Dialogue and the Environment: Solidarity as a Foundation for Environmental Ethics NICHOLA M. SOSA Chapter 4 What Can Universities and Professional Schools Do to Save the Environment? PETER MADSEN Chapter 5 Incontinence, Self-Deception, Shallow Analysis, Myth-making, and Economic Rationality: Their Bearing on Environmental Policy ANDREW BRENNAN Chapter 6 Ethics, Politics, Science, and the Environment: Concerning the Natural Contract CATHERINE LARRERE Chapter 7 Benevolent Smbiosis: The Philosophy of Conservation Reconstructed J. BAIRD CALLICOT Chapter 8 Earth Ethics: A Challenge to Liberal Education HOLMES ROLSTON, III Chapter 9 Afterword: University Education in Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection JOHN LEMONS Appendix: The Porto Alegre Declaration Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors and Centers Index FERNANDO J. R. DA ROCHA
Reviews
""With scientists laying the genetic basis for a re-emergent sociobiology and others promoting the globalization of artificial intelligence, it is a welcome relief to read this collection of essays by some of the most prominent environmental philosophers. Representing Atlantic Rim countries, these philosophers address the conceptual and moral double binds that characterize modernity's relationship to the environment. Their essays not only represent powerful critiques but also equally important guidelines for a constructivist approach to the cultural transitions now being dictated by the environmental crisis."" --C. A. Bowers, author of Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture ""What I like most about this book is the diversity of positions on the issue of Earth ethics. The emphases of the articles are philosophical and ethical, but the discussions are not overspecialized or overly technical. The diversity of approaches is challenging but consistent with the 'postmodern' theme set in the title and introduction. The tension between some of the articles is engaging and representative of real creative tensions in the community of environmental concern."" -- John Grim, Bucknell University
With scientists laying the genetic basis for a re-emergent sociobiology and others promoting the globalization of artificial intelligence, it is a welcome relief to read this collection of essays by some of the most prominent environmental philosophers. Representing Atlantic Rim countries, these philosophers address the conceptual and moral double binds that characterize modernity's relationship to the environment. Their essays not only represent powerful critiques but also equally important guidelines for a constructivist approach to the cultural transitions now being dictated by the environmental crisis. --C. A. Bowers, author of Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture What I like most about this book is the diversity of positions on the issue of Earth ethics. The emphases of the articles are philosophical and ethical, but the discussions are not overspecialized or overly technical. The diversity of approaches is challenging but consistent with the 'postmodern' theme set in the title and introduction. The tension between some of the articles is engaging and representative of real creative tensions in the community of environmental concern. -- John Grim, Bucknell University
Author Information
J. Baird Callicott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas and the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point. Among his many books are In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy and (with Roger T. Ames) Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, both published by SUNY Press. Fernando J. R. da Rochais Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
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