Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138641626 ISBN 13: 9781138641624

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory. Environmental issues challenge contemporary ethical theorists to account for topics that traditional ethical theories do not address to any significant extent. This book articulates and evaluates consequentialist responses to that challenge. Contributors provide a thorough and well-rounded analysis of the benefits and limitations of the consequentialist perspective in addressing environmental issues. In particular, the contributors use consequentialist theory to address central questions in environmental ethics, such as questions about what kinds of things have value; about decision-making in light of the long-term, intergenerational nature of environmental issues; and about the role that a state’s being natural should play in ethical deliberation.

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About the Author

Avram Hiller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University, USA

Ramona Ilea is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pacific University, USA

Leonard Kahn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, New Orleans, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138641626
• ISBN 13: 9781138641624
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Hiller Avram