Environmental Ethics - Rolston Books

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A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Milennium for Life on Earth (New York, London: Routledge, 2012). 2nd edition 2020 hdl.handle.net/10217/211043

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This Second Edition of A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear, powerful, and often moving thoughts from Holmes Rolston III, one of the first and most respected philosophers to write on the environment and often called the "father of environmental ethics." Rolston surveys the full spectrum of approaches in the field of environmental ethics and offers critical assessments of contemporary academic accounts. He draws on a lifetime of research and experience to suggest an outlook, and even hope, for the future. This forward-looking analysis, focused on the new millennium, will be a necessary complement to any balanced textbook or anthology in environmental ethics. The First Edition guaranteed "to put you in your place." Now beyond that, the Second Edition asks whether you want to live a "de-natured life on a de-natured planet."

Key Updates in the Second Edition

•Covers the worsening environmental situation due to actions of the Trump administration, including withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change

•Includes information on legislation in key U.S. states (e.g., California and New York) aimed to ameliorate the damage done at the federal level

•Increases coverage of group knowledge, group agreement and disagreement, and group action in collective environmental ethics, as distinguished from individual knowledge and action

•Examines the deleterious effects of online consumer behavior

•Explains how a loss of solidarity among a nation’s citizens and even a larger solidary among humanity leads to environmental degradation

•Offers new analysis of the effects of epistemic bubbles, echo chambers, and fake news on the behavior of voters and consumers

•Provides an extended critique of the Anthropocene Epoch, and the prospect of geo-engineering Earth to become a synthetic environment.

Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988). 400 pages. 4 hardbound printings in 1988. Paperbound edition, 1989.

Chinese translation (Taiwan): 环境伦理学 Huanjing lunlixue: 对自然界的义务与自然界的价值 Dui ziranjie de yiwu yü ziranjie de jiazhi (Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World), translated by 王瑞香 Wang Ruixiang and edited by 黄道琳 Huang Daolin (Taipei, Taiwan: 国立编译馆 National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1996) ISBN 957-00-8564-9.

Second Chinese translation (P.R. China): 环境伦理学 Huanjing Lunli xue: 大自然的价值以及人对大自然的义务 Daziran de jiazhi yiji ren dui daziran de yiwu) (Beijing: Chinese Social Science Press [ 中国社会科学出版社 Zhongguo Shehui kexue Chuban She], 2000). ISBN 7-5004-2743-3. In a book series Waiguo Lunlixue Mingshu Yicong (Western Masterpieces in Ethics, Translation Series). Translated by 杨通进 Yang Tongjin, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

"Shi yi de qixi yu diqiu" (Living Poetically on Earth) (Humans as Moral Overseers on Earth), reprinted in Chinese in Yang Tongjin, ed, Shengtai Ershi Jiang - Twenty Classical Texts of Ecological Thinking. Tianjin: Tianjen People's Press, 2008. ISBN 978-7-201-05824-5. The selection is taken from Environmental Ethics, Chapter 9, pp. 335-354.

Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/41095

Philosophy Gone Wild (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986). 269 pages. A collection of essays in environmental ethics. Paperbound edition 1989.
Book summary: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37695

Chinese translation, 哲学走向荒野 Zhexue Zou xiang huangye [Philosophy Gone Wild] by 刘耳叶平 Liu Er and Ye Ping, Green Classical Library, Jilin: Jilin Renmin Chubanshe (吉林人民出版社 Jilin People's Publishing House), 2000. Authorized translation by Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. ISBN 7-206-02818-7. Library of Congress: QH540.5 R6512 2000.

Conserving Natural Value (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994). An introduction to the ethical and philosophical values at stake in biological conservation. The full range of values at stake in conserving nature. Covers the general positions, issues, questions, and possible solutions to the problems societies face in simultaneously conserving nature and developing their cultures. Differing senses in which humans are a part of and apart from nature. Current case studies on the spoted owl, the sale of elephant ivory, research in zoos, hybrid animals, and animal rights and welfare. Book Summary: Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37692

Chapters 6 and 7, translated into German: "Eine Ethik für den gesamten Planten Gedanken über den Eigenwert der Natur," Natur und Kultur: Transdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für ökologische Nachhaltigkeit 7(no. 2, 2006):24-40. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/41097

Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2003). Edited by Andrew Light and Holmes Rolston. Anthology of forty articles.
Book summary online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37693

Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III. Festscrift, edited by Christopher J. Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk (Dordrecht: Netherlands: Springer, 2007).ISBN 978-1-4020-4877-7 Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37723