Dale E. Miller, Ben Eggleston

Moral Theory and Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

Ethical Perspectives on a Warming Planet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, nine leading ethicists in nine separate chapters each present a major ethical theory and discuss the implications of that theory for our responses to a rapidly warming planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351792899
• Artikelnr.: 59014500

Autorenporträt

Dale E. Miller is a Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University and the editor-in-chief of Utilitas . He is the author of J. S. Mill: Moral, Social and Political Thought (2010) and he is a co-editor of Rules, Morality, and Consequences (2000); John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011); The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (2014); and A Companion to Mill (2017).

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Modern Climate Change: A Symptom of a Single-Species
High-Energy Pulse 3. Ethical Challenges Posed by Climate Change: An
Overview 4. Procreation, Carbon Tax, and Poverty: An Act-Consequentialist
Climate-Change Agenda 5. The Rule-Consequentialist Response to Climate
Change 6. Kant and Climate Change: A Territorial Rights Approach 7.
Contractualism and Climate Change 8. Contractarianism and Climate Change 9.
Natural Law Theory and Climate Change 10. Virtue Ethics and Climate Change
11. From Caring to Counter-Consumption: Feminist Moral Perspectives on
Consumerism and Climate Change 12. Pragmatist Ethics and Climate Change 13.
Phenomenology and the Ethics of Difference: Levinas, Responsibility, and
Climate Change