Moral Theory and Climate Change: Ethical Perspectives on a Warming Planet
Autor Dale E. Miller, Ben Egglestonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2020
Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time. Ethical theories help us think clearly and more fully about important moral and political issues. And yet, to date, there have been no books that have brought together a broad range of ethical theories to apply them systematically to the problems of climate change. This volume fills that deep need. Two preliminary chapters--an up-to-date synopsis of climate science and an overview of the ethical issues raised by climate change--set the stage. After this, ten leading ethicists in ten separate chapters each present a major ethical theory (or, more broadly, perspective) and discuss the implications of that view for how we decide to respond to a rapidly warming planet. Each chapter first provides a brief exposition of the view before working out what that theory "has to say" about climate change and our response to the problems it poses.
Key Features
- Up-to-date synopsis of climate science
- Clear overviews of a wide range of ethical theories and perspectives by leading experts
- Helpful discussions of the implications of these theories and perspectives for our response to climate change
- A unique opportunity to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of various ethical viewpoints
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1138678279
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: 6
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Ben Eggleston is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. He is the editor of Utilitarianism: With Related Remarks from Mill’s Other Writings, by John Stuart Mill (2017), and a co-editor of John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (2014). His research interests include normative ethics, rational choice theory, and philosophy of law.
Descriere
Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time. Ethical theories help us think clearly and more fully about important moral and political issues. And yet, to date, there have been no books that have brought together a broad range of ethical theories to apply them systematically to the problems of climate change. This volume fills that deep need. Two preliminary chapters--an up-to-date synopsis of climate science and an overview of the ethical issues raised by climate change--set the stage. After this, ten leading ethicists in ten separate chapters each present a major ethical theory (or, more broadly, perspective) and discuss the implications of that view for how we decide to respond to a rapidly warming planet. Each chapter first provides a brief exposition of the view before working out what that theory "has to say" about climate change and our response to the problems it poses.
Key Features
- Up-to-date synopsis of climate science
- Clear overviews of a wide range of ethical theories and perspectives by leading experts
- Helpful discussions of the implications of these theories and perspectives for our response to climate change
- A unique opportunity to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of various ethical viewpoints