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A sequel to Callicott's pioneering work, In Defense of the Land Ethic, Beyond the Land Ethic engages a wide spectrum of topics central to the field, including the troubled relationship of environmental philosophy to current mainstream academic philosophy; the relationship of recent developments in evolutionary and ecological sciences to the Leopold land ethic long championed by the author; the perennial debates in environmental ethics about the ontological status of intrinsic value and the necessity of moral pluralism; the metaphysical implications of ecology and the New Physics as manifest in agriculture, medicine, and industrial technology; and the philosophical dimensions of conservation biology and "clinical ecology."Editorials
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Callicott's sequel to addresses a range of important topics, including the troubled relationship of environmental philosophy to academic philosophy; the relationship of recent developments in evolutionary and ecological sciences to the Leopold land ethic; debates about the ontological status of intrinsic value and the necessity of moral pluralism; the metaphysical implications of ecology and the New Physics as manifest in agriculture, medicine, and industrial technology; and the philosophical dimensions of conservation biology and clinical ecology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)Book Details
Published
March 31, 1999
Publisher
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1999.
Pages
427
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791440834