Environmental Ethics



Academic Journals and Related Articles

 

"Duties to Endangered Species," BioScience 35(1985):718-726. Special issue on biological conservation. Reprinted and translated variously, see chapters in books, anthologies.      Download/Print in PDF format. For printing.    Download/Print in PDF format.  Read on web.

"Is There an Ecological Ethic?" Ethics: An International Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 85(1975):93-109. Reprinted and translated variously, see chapters in books, anthologies. Download/Print in PDF Format.  Also available online in university and college libraries through Ethics, JSTOR.

"Disvalues in Nature," The Monist 75(1992):250-278. Reprinted in Andrew Brennan, ed., The Ethics of the Environment (Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1995), pages 87-115. Download/Print in PDF Format.

"Rights and Responsibilities on the Home Planet," Yale Journal of International Law 18 (no. 1, 1993):251-279. Invited paper at Symposium on Human Rights and the Environment, Yale Law School and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, April 1992. Short version reprinted in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 28(1993):425-439.

"Caring for Nature: From Fact to Value, from Respect to Reverence," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39(no. 2, 2004):277-302. Invited Templeton Lecture, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 23, 2003.  Download/Print in PDF format.

"Values Gone Wild," Inquiry 26(1983):181-207. Also published in proceedings, Third Annual Conference (1982), Wilderness Psychology Group (Morgantown, W.V.: Division of Forestry, West Virginia University, 1983).   Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild.    Download/Print in PDF format.

"Valuing Wildlands," Environmental Ethics 7(1985):23-48.   Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. Download/Print in PDF format, 1.5 mb.

"Mountain Majesties above Fruited Plains: Culture, Nature, and Rocky Mountain Aesthetics,"    Environmental Ethics 30(2008):3-20.    Download/Print in PDF format.

"The Future of Environmental Ethics,"   Teaching Ethics (Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum):8(Fall 2007):1-27. Download/print in PDF format.

"Critical Issues in Future Environmental Ethics," Ethics and the Environment 12(2007):139-142. In a theme section in which fifteen scholars in the field reflect on the future of environmental ethics.

"Biology and Philosophy in Yellowstone." Biology and Philosophy 5(1990):241-258. Download/Print in PDF format.

Reprinted in Susan Armstrong and Richard Botzler, eds., Environmental Ethics: Convergence and Divergence (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), pages 28-38.

"Immunity in Natural History,"  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (University of Chicago Press) 39(1996):353-372. Nobel Conference XXVIII Lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College, October 1992.

"Does Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscapes Need to be Science-Based?" British Journal of Aesthetics 35(1995):374-386. Download/Print in PDF format.   Address at "Meeting in the Landscape," the First International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics," Koli, Finland, June 1994.

Reprinted, translated into Finnish. Pages 80-91 in Yrjö Sepänmaa, Liisa Heikkilä-Palo and Virpi Kaukio, eds. Maiseman kanssa kasvokkain (Looking toward the Landscape).   Helsinki: Maahenki Oy, 2007 ISBN: 978-952-5652-02-4 Download/Print in PDF format.

Reprinted in Joseph DesJardins, ed., Environmental Ethics: Concepts, Policy, Theory (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1999), pages 164-171.

"Property Rights and Endangered Species," University of Colorado Law Review 61(1990):283-306. Download/Print in PDF format.

Using Water Naturally, Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado, Western Water Policy Project, Discussion Series Paper No. 9, 1991. Shorter version in Kathleen C. Klein, ed., Seeking an Integrated Approach to Watershed Management in the South Platte Basin (Fort Collins, CO: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University, 1993), pp. 3-8. Revised version in Illahee: Journal for the Northwest Environment 11 (nos. 1 & 2, 1995):94-98.

"Ethical Responsibilities toward Wildlife," Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 200(1992):618-622.



"The Wilderness Idea Reaffirmed," Environmental Professional 13(1991):370-377. Variously reprinted, see chapters in books, anthologies. Download/Print in PDF Format.


F/Actual Knowing: Putting Facts and Values in Place," Ethics and the Environment 10 (no. 2, 2005):137-174. Download/print in PDF format.


"Panglobalism and Pandemics: Ecological and Ethical Concerns," Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 76(2005):309-319. Download/print in PDF format.

 

"What Is a Gene? From Molecules to Metaphysics," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 27(2006):471-497. Download/print in PDF Format.



"Human Values and Natural Systems," Society and Natural Resources 1(1988):271-283.

"Engineers, Butterflies, Worldviews," The Environmental Professional 9(1987):295-301. Invited article in special issue: "Environmental Science and Values."


 

"Respect for Life: Can Zen Buddhism Help in Forming an Environmental Ethic?" In Zen Buddhism Today, No. 7, September 1989, pp. 11-30. Annual Report of the Kyoto Zen Symposium, Kyoto Seminar for Religious Philosophy, Institute for Zen Studies, Hanazono College and Kyoto University. Invited paper as distinguished lecturer at the Seventh Annual International Zen Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, March 1989.    Download/Print in PDF format.

Translated into Chinese in Zhexue Yicong (Philosophy Digest of Translation), (Journal of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Beijing), Issue No. 5, September 1994):11-18.

"Values Deep in the Woods: The Hard-to-Measure Benefits of Forest Preservation." Pages 315-319 in Economic and Social Development: A Role for Forests and Forestry Professionals-- Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters, 1987 National Convention, Minneapolis. Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters, 1988. Invited lecture at the annual convention of the Society of American Foresters, October 1987, Minneapolis, MN.

Published in B. L. Driver, ed., Contributions of Social Sciences to Multiple-Use Management: An Update (Fort Collins, CO: Rocky Mountain Range and Experiment Station, 1990), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-196, October, pp. 6-19.

"Values Deep in the Woods." American Forests 94, nos. 5 & 6 (May/June 1988:33, 66-69. Download/print in PDF format.

Reprinted in The Trumpeter (Canada) 6, no. 2 (Spring 1989):39-41. 

Reprinted in Alan Drengson and Duncan Taylor, eds., Wild Foresting: Practising Nature's Wisdom (Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2009), pages 12-16.

Electronically reprinted on website, Ecospherics International, Inc., Lanark, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ecospherics.net Ted Mosquin, editor.

"A Forest Ethic and Multivalue Forest Management," co-authored with James Coufal, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, Journal of Forestry 89(no. 4, 1991):35-40.    Download/print in PDF format.

Translated into Chinese in Information about Ecophilosophy, at Northeast Forestry University, 1989. Translated by Ye Ping, Social Science Department, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China.

Translated, second time, into Chinese in Zhexue Yicong (Philosophy Digest of Translation), (Journal of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Beijing), 1999, Issue No. 2, September, pages 27-31.   Download/print in PDF format.

"The Nonhuman Dimensions in Wildlife." Human Dimensions in Wildlife, 8, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 6-8.

"Treating Animals Naturally?" Between the Species 5(1989):131-137.

"Can the East Help the West to Value Nature?" Philosophy East and West 37(1987)172-190.

"Technology versus Nature: What is Natural" in CPTS Ends and Means: Journal of the University of Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy, Technology & Society 2(no. 2, Spring 1998):3-14. This journal is also in electronic form:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cpts/techno.htm

"Values in Nature," Environmental Ethics 3(1981):113-128. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild.    Download/print in PDF format.

Translated into Chinese by Yu Goping, Northeast Forestry University in Information of Ecophilosophy, an occasional publication of the Research Office in Ecophilosophy of the Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 1989, No. 2.

Translated into Finnish in Markku Oksanen and Marjo Rauhala-Hayes, eds., Ymparistofilosofia: Kirjoituksia ymparistonsuojelun eettisista perusteista (Environmental Philosophy: Critical Sources in Environmental Theory and Ethics (Heksinki: Gaudeamus, Oy Yliopistokustannus, Finnish University Press, 1997), pages 205-224.     Download/Print in PDF format.



"Can and Ought We to Follow Nature?" Environmental Ethics 1(1979):7-30.   An invited article launching this journal. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild.     Download/print in PDF format.

Reprinted in Andrew Brennan, ed., The Ethics of the Environment (Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1995), pages 365-389.

Reprinted in German translation in Dieter Birnbacher, ed., Okophilosophie (Ditzingen, Germany: Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart, Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, 1997), pp. 242-285.    Download/print in PDF format.

Reprinted, translated into Chinese, "Zun xun da zi ran (Following Nature)" in Zhexue Yicong (Philosophy Translation Series), no. 4, 1998, pp. 36-42, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Beijing.    Download/print in PDF format.

Reprinted, March 1999, by The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom in curriculum materials for a university and correspondence course, A211: Philosophy and the Human Situation.

"Can and Ought We to Follow Nature?" Reprinted in part in John Benson, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction with Readings (London: Routledge, 2000, pages 237-242.


"Are Values in Nature Subjective or Objective?"  Environmental Ethics 4(1982):125-151. Download/Print in PDF format.



"The Pasqueflower" Natural History (Magazine of the American Museum of Natural History) 88(no. 4, April 1979):6-16.   Download/print in PDF format.    Philosophical reflection on the pasqueflower as a floral sign of natural meaning.

Reprinted in Wilderness, vol. 29, no. 30, July 1990 (South Africa, Wilderness Leadership School), pp. 5-7. Also reprinted in Philosophy Gone Wild.

Reprinted, translated into Chinese in Chen, Tzu-Mei, ed., Introduction to Environmental Ethics (Huan-Jing Luun-Li-Shei Ru-Men) (Tapei: Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, 2007). pages 192-200. ISBN 978-986-84047-0-0.    Download/Print in PDF Format.



"On Behalf of Bioexuberance," Garden 11, no. 4 (July/August 1987): 2-4, 31-32. Article commissioned by New York Botanical Gardens, in consortium with fourteen botanical gardens around the U. S., for their journal.    Download/print in PDF format.

Reprinted in Michael Ruse, ed., Philosophy of Biology, 2nd ed (Amherst, NH: Prometheus Press, 2007), pages 347-354.

Reprinted in The Trumpeter (Canada) 5, no. 1 (Winter 1988): 26-29. Reprinted in Wilderness Record: Proceedings of the California Wilderness Coalition, vol 17, no. 4, April 1992, p. 4.

Electronically reprinted on website, Ecospherics International, Inc., Lanark, Ontario, Canada.http://www.ecospherics.net. Ted Mosquin, editor.    View/Download text.



"In Defense of Ecosystems," Garden 12, no. 4 (July/August 1988): 2-5, p. 32. Article commissioned by New York Botanical Gardens, in consortium with fourteen botanical gardens around the U. S., for their journal Garden.   Download/print in PDF format.

"Yellowstone: We Must Allow It To Change," High Country News 23 (no. 10, June 3, 1991):12-13.

"The Irreversibly Comatose: Respect for the Subhuman in Human Life," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 7(1982):337-354. Jack P. Freer (Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, replies to this article in "Chronic Vegetative States: Intrinsic Value of Biological Process," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 9(1984): 395-407. Michael Seidler (Philosophy, Western Kentucky University) comments further in "`Unregarded Age in Corners Thrown': Moral Bases of our Duties toward the Diminished Elderly," Modern Schoolman 64(no. 4)(1989):257-282.

"Lake Solitude: The Individual in Wildness," Main Currents in Modern Thought 31(1975):121-126. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. Download/Print in PDF Format.

Reprinted, translated into Chinese by Liu Er, in Huanjing yu Shehui (Environment and Society) 2 (no. 4, December 1999)

"Hewn and Cleft from this Rock: Meditation at the Precambrian Contact," Main Currents in Modern Thought 27(1971):79-83. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. Download/Print in PDF Format.

"Philosophical Aspects of the Environmental Crisis," in Phillip O. Foss, ed., Environment and Colorado: A Handbook, (Fort Collins Colorado: Environmental Resources Center, Colorado State University, 1973), pages 41-46. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild.

"Community: Ecological and Ecumenical" in The Iliff Review 30(1973):3-14 (Iliff Theological Seminary, Denver). An invited article in this issue. Analysis of the inter-relations of theology and ecology.

"Does Nature Need To Be Redeemed?" Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 29(1994):205-229. Article awarded John Templeton Foundation award for best scholarly papers in religion, 1994. Also in Horizons in Biblical Theology 14 (no. 2, 1993):143- 172. Plenary address at Conference on "Creation, Ecology, and Ethics," Chicago, October 1992. Also invited address at American Academy of Religion, National Meeting, San Francisco, November 1992. Download/Print in PDF Format.

"Whose Woods These Are. Are Genetic Resources Private Property or Global Commons?" Earthwatch, vol. 12, no. 3 (March/April 1993): 17-18. Download/Print in PDF format.

"Order and Disorder in Nature, Science, and Religion." Pages 1-14 in George W. Shields and Mark Shale, eds., Science, Technology and Religious Ideas: Proceedings of the Institute for Liberal Studies, vol. 4 (Frankfort, KT: Institute for Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University, 1994). Keynote address at Institute for Liberal Studies, Conference on Science, Technology, and Religious Ideas, Kentucky State University, April 2-3, 1993.

"The Bible and Ecology," Interpretation: Journal of Bible and Theology 50(1996):16-26. Download/print in PDF format.   Also translated into Japanese.

"Environmental Protection and an Equitable International Order: Ethics after the Earth Summit," Business Ethics Quarterly 5(1995):735-752.

Reprinted, translated into Chinese, in: Huanjing yu Shehui (Environment and Society) (Chinese Society for Environmental Ethics) 2(no. 2, June 1999):49-55 (trans. by Li Shili).

"Science, Advocacy, Human and Environmental Health," The Science of the Total Environment 184(1996):51-56. Article prepared for the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and World Health Organization (WHO) and in theme issue on "Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Environmental Epidemology.

"Ecological Spirituality," American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 18(1997)59-64.

"Aesthetic Experience in Forests" Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56(1998):157-166. Download/print in PDF format.   Address at The Aesthetics of the Forest, Second International Conference on Landscape Aesthetics,Lusto, Punkaharju, Finland. June 1996.

Reprinted, translated into Finnish, in Yrjö Sepänmaa, ed. Metsään Mieleni (Helsinki: Maahenski, 2003), pages 31-47. Download/print in PDF format.

"Nature, the Genesis of Value, and Human Understanding," Environmental Values 6(1997):361-364.

"Philosophy and the Land Ethic," in Reflections: Newsletter of the Program for Ethics, Science, and the Environment, Oregon State University, Department of Philosophy, Special Issue 3, August 1998, p. 6.

"The Moral Case for Saving Species," Defenders: The Conservation Magazine of Defenders of Wildlife 73 (no. 3, Summer 1998):6-15. Thirteen philosophers explain why society should give high priority to the Endangered Species Act.    Rolston essay on page 10.

"The Land Ethic at the Turn of the Millennium," Biodiversity and Conservation 9(2000):1045-1058. In a theme issue: Concepts of Nature: The Social Context and Ethical Implications of Ecology.    Download/print in PDF format.

"Environmental Science and Environmental Advocacy," Reflections: Newsletter of the Program for Ethics, Science, and the Environment, Oregon State University. Special Issue No. 4, April 2000, pp. 2-3.

"Preaching on the Environment," Journal for Preachers 23 (no. 4, 2000):25-32.    Download/print in PDF format.

"Aesthetics in the Swamps," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (University of Chicago; Johns Hopkins University) 43(2000):584-597. Download/print in PDF format.

Translated into Finnish as "Soiden estetiikan ekologinen perusta." Pages 43-57 in Kirsi Hakala, ed., Suo on kaunis (The Bog is Beautiful), (Maahenki: Helsinki 1999).    Download/print in PDF format.

"Environmental Ethics on Antarctic Ice," Polar Record (Cambridge University, Scott Polar Institute) 36(no. 199, October 2000):289- 290.   Download/print in PDF format.

"Environmental Ethics in Antarctica," Environmental Ethics 24(2002):115-134.   Download/print in PDF format.

"Biodiversity and Spirit," Science and Spirit 11(no. 4, November/December 2000):34. Epilogue, one-page essay in a theme issue on Science, Religion, and the Stewardship of Earth.

"Natural and Unnatural, Wild and Cultural," Western North American Naturalist 61(2001):267- 276. Originally the Aubrey L. Haines Distinguished Lecture at the Fifth Biennial Scientific Conference on the Great Yellowstone Ecosystem, National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park, WY, October 11-13, 1999.  Download/print in PDF format.

"Die Umweltethik und der Mensch: Über intrinsische Werte in der Nature" (Environmental Ethics
and Humans: On Intrinsic Value in Nature)," Scheidewege: Jahresschrift für skeptisches Denken 33, 2003/2004, pages 251-266.

"Justifying Sustainable Development: A Continuing Ethical Search," Global Dialogue (Centre for World Dialogue, Nicosia, Cyprus) 4(no. 1, 2002):103-113.    Download/print in PDF format.

"Entrevista: Dr. Holmes Rolston III (Interview: Dr. Holmes Rolston, III)," Ação Ambiental (Environmental Action), vol. 7, no. 30, September/October 2004, pages 5-8. This is the extension journal of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil, and this a theme issue on environmental philosophy. In Portugese. Interviewer James Griffith.    Download/print in PDF format.

"Ecology: A Primer for Christian Ethics," Journal of Catholic Social Thought 4(no. 2, 2007):293-312.   Download/print in PDF format.

"Perpetual Perishing, Perpetual Renewal," The Northern Review, number 28, Winter 2008, pages 111-123. Yukon College, Yukon.      Download/print in PDF format.



Critical Notice

Christopher J. Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk, eds., Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III.    Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006.

Wynn, Mark, "Natural Theology in an Ecological Mode," Faith and Philosophy 16(1999):27-42.

Ouderkirk, Wayne, "Can Nature Be Evil? Rolston, Disvalue, and Theodicy," Environmental Ethics 21(1999):135-150.

Cheney, Jim, "Naturalizing the Problem of Evil," Environmental Ethics 19(1997):299-313.

Attfield, Robin, "Evolution, Theodicy, and Value," Heythrop Journal 41(2000):281-296.

Benzoni, Francisco, "Rolston's Theological Ethic," Environmental Ethics 18(1996):339-352.

Benzoni, Francisco, "The Moral Worth of Creatures:: Neo-Classical Metaphysics and the Value Theories of Rolston and Callicott, Environmental Values 18(2009):3-32.

Richard L. Fern, Nature, God and Humanity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Preston, Christopher J., "Epistemology and Intrinsic Values: Norton and Callicott's Critiques of Rolston," Environmental Ethics 20(1998):409-428.

Scoville, Judith N., "Value Theory and Ecology in Environmental Ethics: A Comparison of Rolston and Niebuhr," Environmental Ethics 17(1995):115-133.

Callicott, J. Baird, "Rolston on Intrinsic Value: A Deconstruction," Environmental Ethics 14(1992):129-143.

Davradou, Maria, and Namkoong, Gene, "Science, Ethical Arguments, and Management in the Preservation of Land for Grizzly Bear Conservation," Conservation Biology 15 (no. 3, June, 2001):570-577. The authors, in Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, assess Rolston's principles in environmental ethics for the conservation of grizzy bears and their habitat.

Mikael Stenmark, Environmental Ethics and Policy Making (London: Ashgate 2002). Rolston is one of the three principal figures analyzed for the impact of their environmental ethics on environmental policy.

Le Blanc, Jill, "A Mystical Response to Disvalue in Nature," Philosophy Today 45(2001):254-265.

Gregory Brown and Patrick Reed, "Validation of a Forest Values Typology for Use in National Forest Planning," Forest Science 46(2000):240-247. Brown and Reed experimentally validate Rolston's value topology in conserving values in national forest policy. Similarly: G. G. Brown, P. Reed, C. C. Harris, "Testing a Place-based Theory for Environmental Valuation: An Alaska Case Study," Applied Geography 22(2002):49-76.

Theresa Satterfield uses Rolston's value topology in nature as a coding framework to organize her survey instrument and to classify her research results analyzing what kinds of values persons hold regarding nature. "In Search of Value Literacy: Suggestions for the Elicitation of Environmental Values," Environmental Values 10(2001):331-359.

W. F. Butler and T.G. Acott (Department of Earth and Environmental Science. University of Greewich, Medway Towns Campus, Kent, UK) conduct an interview/survey of a diverse group of UK residents regarding whether they accept intrinsic values in nature, along the general lines of Rolston's account.     "The results indicated that a high proportion (80%) of those interviewed claimed to believe in nature's intrinsic value" (p. 156).   Further, they typically have a communitarian account, "thus representing an ecocentric position akin to that of Rolston or Leopold" (p. 166).   "An Inquiry Concerning the Acceptance of Intrinsic Value Theories of Nature," Environmental Values 16(2007):149-168.

Marti Kheel extensively considers four founders of the environmental movement: Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Holmes Rolston III, and Warwick Fox. Each is too ecosystemic, concerned with species, with processes, rather than rooting concern in empathy for fellow suffering in animals. She is particularly critical of defenses of hunting, or of human superiority. These have their roots in the masculine biases of Rolston and the other thinkers.  Nature Ethics: A Feminist Perspective. Lanham. MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.

Nicole Klenk (Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Quebec) analyses the use of Rolston's environmental ethic by forest scientists and finds that it is valuable to them, especially his account of "following nature" and his taxonomy of values in nature, but that forest scientists tend to be more pragmatic in application and are less conscerned for a consistent and coherent ethics. "The Ethics of  `Following Nature' in Forestry: Academic Forest Scientists and Rolston's Environmental Ethics," Environmental Ethics 31(2009):67-84.



Graduate Theses

Rolston is one of two analyzed in Theodore W. Nunez, Rolston, Longergan, and the Intrinsic Value of Nature, Ph.D. thesis, 1999, Department of Religious Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Published (in part) as "Rolston, Lonergan, and the Intrinsic Value of Nature," Journal of Religious Ethics 27(no. 1, Spring, 1999):105-128. Commentaries by Nancy Frankenberry and Timothy P. Jackson, Journal of Religious Ethics 27(no. 1, Spring 1999):129- 136, 137-144; and reply by Nunez, 145-148.

Rolston's position in environmental ethics is one of three philosophers analyzed by Bruce Omundson, Moral Pluralism, Nonsentient Nature, and Sustainable Ways of Life, Ph.D. thesis, 1992, Michigan State University, Department of Philosophy.

Rolston is one of two analyzed in R. John Reiman, Toward an Ecological Ethic, Ph. D. thesis, 1991, Vanderbilt University.

Rolston is one of two principally analyzed in Glenn Gregory Garrison, Moral Obligations to Non-human Creation: A Theocentric Ethic, Ph.D. thesis, 1994, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

Rolston is the principal figure analyzed in Bruce A. Anthony, Towards the Recognition of a Necessary Environmental Value, Ph.D. thesis, 1997, Department of Philosophy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, N.S.W., Australia.

Rolston is a principal figure analyzed in Lisa Hatton Sideris, The Limits of Theodicy: Ecological Theology, Natural Selection, and the Problem of Suffering in Nature, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, 2000. Published as: Lisa H. Sideris, Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Rolston's aesthetics of nature is analysed in Zhao Hong-mei, Mei Xue Zou Xiang Huang Ye (Aesthetics Gone Wild: On the Thought of Rolston's Environmental Aesthetics), Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Hubei Province, China, 2009.

Rolston's position in environmental ethics is analyzed by Yang Yingzi, Lunli de Shengtai Xiangdu--Lun Rolston Huanjing Lunlixue de Jiazhi Linian (Ecological Orientation of Ethics: On Rolston's Environmental Ethics), Ph.D. dissertation, Fuhan University, Shanghai, China, 2007. Forthcoming in print, China Social Sciences Press, 2010.



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