John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy

Hugh P. Mcdonald

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Hugh P. McDonald's John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy breaks new ground by applying Dewey's insights to a new approach to philosophy of the environment; the concern for the rights of animals; the preservation of rare species, habitats, and landscapes; and the health of the whole ecology. The book summarizes much of the current literature on environmental ethics, concentrating on the writings of major figures in the movement: Tom Regan, J. Baird Callicott, Holmes Rolston, and Bryan Norton. The heart of the book consists of a detailed analysis of Dewey's ethics, his theory of intrinsic value, and his holistic approach to moral justification. Arguing against the idea that Dewey's philosophy is anthropocentric, McDonald makes a strong case that using Dewey's philosophy will result in a superior framework for environmental ethics.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

1. Environmental Ethics and Intrinsic Value

PROLOGUE TO CHAPTER TWO

The Setting of the Problem of Pragmatism and the Environment: The Critique of Pragmatism as an Environmental Ethics in Taylor, Bowers, Katz, and Weston

2. Dewey's Naturalism

3. Dewey's Instrumentalism

4. Dewey's (Moral) Holism

5. Dewey's Ethics as a Basis for Environmental Issues

EPILOGUE: Pragmatism and Environmental Ethics

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Pragmatism

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791486214
• Langue: English

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John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy

Hugh P. McDonald

JOHN DEWEY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren, editors

JOHN DEWEY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Hugh P. McDonald

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McDonald, H. P. (Hugh P.) John Dewey and environmental philosophy / Hugh P. McDonald. p. cm. — (SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0791458733 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0791458741 (pbk. alk. paper) 1. Dewey, John, 1859–1952. 2. Pragmatism. 3. Environmental sciences—Philosophy. 4. Environmental ethics. I. Title. II. Series.

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This book is dedicated to the late Professor Reuben Abel, teacher, scholar, philosopher

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Environmental Ethics and Intrinsic Value

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Dewey’s Ethics as a Basis for Environmental Issues

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Human nature exists and operates in an environment . . . as a plant is in the sunlight and soil. It is of them, continuous with their energies, dependent upon their support, capable of increase only as it utilizes them and as it gradually rebuilds from their crude indifference an environment genially civilized. —Dewey