Wild Animals And American Environmental Ethics

Author : Lisa Mighetto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Animals and American Environmental Ethics written by Lisa Mighetto and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Human attitudes toward animals have followed an interesting progression since the conservation movement began in the mid-19th century. This book traces the changing patterns of human perceptions of wild animals through a study of the literature of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Photographs, as well as literary references from such authors as Jack London, John Muir, and Rachel Carson, are used to illustrate people's attitudes toward wildlife. The author does not argue either for or against the animal rights movement. She advocates acceptance of animals as they are and tries to combat the human-centeredness that has pervaded our thinking about the animal kingdom. This well-written volume would be an interesting addition to environmental collections in academic libraries."--Amazon.com Lib. J. review.

Author : Kyle Johannsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000197603
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Animal Ethics written by Kyle Johannsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone, Kyle Johannsen argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals. Using concepts from moral and political philosophy to analyze the issue of wild animal suffering (WAS), Johannsen explores how a collective, institutional obligation to assist wild animals should be understood. He claims that with enough research, genetic editing may one day give us the power to safely intervene without perpetually interfering with wild animals’ liberties. Questions addressed include: In what way is nature valuable and is intervention compatible with that value? Is intervention a requirement of justice? What are the implications of WAS for animal rights advocacy? What types of intervention are promising? Expertly moving the debate about human relations with wild animals beyond its traditional confines, Wild Animal Ethics is essential reading for students and scholars of political philosophy and political theory studying animal ethics, environmental ethics, and environmental philosophy.

Author : Yolanda Eisenstein
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781634258043
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildlife Law and Ethics written by Yolanda Eisenstein and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2017 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Présentation de l'éditeur : "Exploring how the law can be used to influence the lives of the billions of individual animals we call wildlife, this book focuses not only on the legal issues involved but also on compelling ethical and moral issues. Framed around specific issues, each chapter focuses on the significant and often unrealized power of U.S. law to influence wildlife protections around the world."

Author : Paul W. Taylor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691022505
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Respect for Nature written by Paul W. Taylor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respect for Nature defends a biocentric theory of environmental ethics. Without making claims for the moral rights of plants and animals, Paul Taylor offers a reasoned alternative to the prevailing anthropocentric view, according to which the natural environment and its wild biotic communities are valued only as objects for human use or enjoyment.

Author : Eugene C. Hargrove
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405812
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate written by Eugene C. Hargrove and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bryan G. Norton
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343634
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics on the Ark written by Bryan G. Norton and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics on the Ark presents a passionate, multivocal discussion—among zoo professionals, activists, conservation biologists, and philosophers—about the future of zoos and aquariums, the treatment of animals in captivity, and the question of whether the individual, the species, or the ecosystem is the most important focus in conservation efforts. Contributors represent all sides of the issues. Moving from the fundamental to the practical, from biodiversity to population regulation, from animal research to captive breeding, Ethics on the Ark represents an important gathering of the many fervent and contentious viewpoints shaping the wildlife conservation debate.

Author : Clare Palmer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231503024
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Ethics in Context written by Clare Palmer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to animals, but we also face questions about when we should, and should not, assist animals that are hungry or distressed. Should we feed a starving stray kitten? And if so, does this commit us, if we are to be consistent, to feeding wild animals during a hard winter? In this controversial book, Clare Palmer advances a theory that claims, with respect to assisting animals, that what is owed to one is not necessarily owed to all, even if animals share similar psychological capacities. Context, history, and relation can be critical ethical factors. If animals live independently in the wild, their fate is not any of our moral business. Yet if humans create dependent animals, or destroy their habitats, we may have a responsibility to assist them. Such arguments are familiar in human cases-we think that parents have special obligations to their children, for example, or that some groups owe reparations to others. Palmer develops such relational concerns in the context of wild animals, domesticated animals, and urban scavengers, arguing that different contexts can create different moral relationships.

Author : Paul W. Taylor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838533
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Respect for Nature written by Paul W. Taylor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for the moral rights of plants and animals, he offers a reasoned alternative to the prevailing anthropocentric view--that the natural environment and its wildlife are valued only as objects for human use or enjoyment. Respect for Nature provides both a full account of the biological conditions for life--human or otherwise--and a comprehensive view of the complex relationship between human beings and the whole of nature. This classic book remains a valuable resource for philosophers, biologists, and environmentalists alike--along with all those who care about the future of life on Earth. A new foreword by Dale Jamieson looks at how the original 1986 edition of Respect for Nature has shaped the study of environmental ethics, and shows why the work remains relevant to debates today.

Author : Bernice Bovenkerk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319442066
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans written by Bernice Bovenkerk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature leads to a rethinking of the old distinction between individual animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats leads to a blurring between the categories of wild and domesticated animals. Finally, globalization and global climate change have led to the fragmentation of natural habitats, blurring the old distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation. In this book, researchers at the cutting edge of their fields systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations, dealing with wild, liminal, and domestic animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with technologies such as biomimicry. This book is timely in that it explores the new directions in which our thinking about the human-animal relationship are developing. While the target audience primarily consists of animal studies scholars, coming from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethology, literature, and film studies, many of the topics that are discussed have relevance beyond a purely theoretical one; as such the book also aims to inspire for example biologists, conservationists, and zoo keepers to reflect on their relationship with animals.

Author : Gary E. Varner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195348521
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Nature's Interests? written by Gary E. Varner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that every living organism has interests which ought, other things being equal, to be protected, Varner contends that some interests take priority over others. He defends both a sentientist principle giving priority to the lives of organisms with conscious desires and an anthropocentric principle giving priority to certain very inclusive interests which only humans have. He then shows that these principles not only comport with but provide significant support for environmental goals.