Morality's Progress

Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature

AvDale Jamieson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

This volume is the summation of nearly three decades of work by a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The 22 papers are diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature. Jamieson's direct and accessible essays aim to convince sceptics that thinking about these relations offers great intellectual reward, and his work here sets a challenging, controversial agenda for the future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-11-07
Mått:164 x 242 x 25 mm
Vikt:709 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:396
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199251445

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Dale Jamieson is Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

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Jamieson's book challenges both the philosopher and the non-philosopher to explore what is involved in a consistent set of beliefs about how humans relate to animals and nature. He often shows that this consistency takes us to conclusions that many of us will be uncomfortable with. . . . All of his articles, two of which he has co-authored with Marc Bekoff and one with Tom Regan, exhibit a commendable clarity of writing, close argumentation and an accessible style. . . . Whether or not we fully agree with him on what constitutes moralitys progress, his book certainly constitutes progress in our understanding of morality.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface ; 1. Morality's Progress ; 2. Is Applied Ethics Worth Doing? ; 3. Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality ; 4. Science, Knowledge, and Animal Minds ; 5. On Aims and Methods of Cognitive Ethology (with Marc Bekoff) ; 6. Cognitive Ethology at the End of Neuroscience ; 7. Pain and the Evolution of Behaviour ; 8. On the Ethics of the Use of Animals in Science (with Tom Regan) ; 9. Experimenting on Animals: A Reconsideration ; 10. Ethics and the Study of Animal Cognition (with Marc Bekoff) ; 11. Against Zoos ; 12. Zoos Revisited ; 13. Wild/Captive and Other Suspect Dualisms ; 14. Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic ; 15. Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine ; 16. Values in Nature ; 17. The City Around Us ; 18. Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming ; 19. Global Environmental Justicw ; 20. Discourse and Moral Responsibility in Biotechnical Communication ; 21. Sustainability and Beyond ; 22. Afterword: Child of the Sixties ; Bibliography ; Index