Environmental Ethics - Publications


 


Chapters or Articles in Books, Part I

 

 

"Environmental Ethics." Pages 517-530 in Nicholas Bunnin and E. P. Tsui-James, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Download/print in PDF format, 900 kb.

Translated into Portuguese, "Ética ambiental," pp. 557ff in Compéndio de Filosofia, segunda edição, 2007, tradução de Luiz Paulo Rouanet; São Paulo, SP, Brasil; Edições Loyola.   ISBN: 978-85-15-03047-7

"Life and the Nature of Life--in Parks. Pages 103-113 in David Harmon and Allen D. Putney, eds., The Full Value of Parks: From the Economic to the Intangible. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. Download/print in PDF format, 512 kb.  Reprinted in The George Wright Forum 21 (no. 2, June, 2004):69-77

"What Is our Duty to Nature?", one-page box essay, p. 681 in William K. Purves, David Sandava, Gordon H. Orians, and H. Craig Heller, Life: The Science of Biology, 7th ed. Sunderland MA: Sinauer Associates; W. A. Freeman, 2004. Download/print in PDF format, 470 kb.

 

"Challenges in Environmental Ethics." Pages 135-157 in Michael E. Zimmerman, J. Baird Callicott, George Sessions, Karen J. Warren, and John Clark, eds., Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993. Pages 124-144, second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.  Pages 126-146, third edition 2001.  Pages 82-101 in Michael E. Zimmerman, J. Baird Callicott, Karen J. Warren, Irene J. Klaver, and John Clark, eds., fourth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005.Download/print in PDF format, 1.2 mb.

Reprinted in David E. Cooper and Joy A. Palmer, eds., The Environment in Question (London: Routledge, 1992), pages 135-146.

Reprinted in Lawrence H. Hinman, ed., Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000), pages 587-604.    3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005), pages 427.443.


"Is There an Ecological Ethic?" in Donald Scherer and Thomas W. Attig, eds., Ethics and the Environment (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1983). First published in Ethics: An International Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 85(1975):93-109. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. Download/print in PDF Format, 1.8 mb. Also available online in most university and college libraries through Ethics, JSOR.

Reprinted in J. Baird Callicott and Clare Palmer, eds., Environmental Philosophy: Critical Concepts in the Environment (London: Routledge, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 54-71

Reprinted in Robin Attfield, ed., .The Ethics of the Environment (Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 13-29.

Reprinted in Martin Wachs, ed., Ethics in Planning (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1985).

Reprinted and translated into Chinese in Qiu Renzong, editor, Guowai Zirankexue Zhexuewenti 1990 (International Philosophical Problems in Natural Science 1990), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Philosophy. Beijing: Social Science Press, 1991. Translated by Ye Ping, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin.    Download/Print in PDF format, 500 kb.

Reprinted and translated into Russian in L. I. Vasilenko and V. E. Ermolaeva (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences) eds., Globalniye Problemy i Obshchechelovecheskiye Tsennosti (Global Problems and Human Values) (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1990), pp. 258-288.    Download/print in PDF format, 1.5 mb.

Reprinted and translated into Hungarian in Laslo Molnar, ed., Kornyezeti etika (Environmental Ethics) (Budapest: Technical University of Budapest, 1996).

Reprinted and translated into Italian in Mariachiara Tallacchini, ed., Etiche della terra: Antologia di filosofia dell' ambiente (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 1998), pages 151-171.    Download/print in PDF format, 1 mb.



"Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World." In F. Herbert Bormann, and Stephen R. Kellert, eds. Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp. 73-96. Download/print in PDF Format, 1.1 mb.

Reprinted in Lori Gruen and Dale Jamieson, eds., Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) pp. 65--84.

Reprinted in Richard G. Botzler and Susan J. Armstrong, eds., Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998), pp. 71-86.

Reprinted in Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler, eds., Environmental Ethics: Divergence
and Convergence, 3rd ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004), pages 74-87.

Reprinted in Earl R. Winkler and Jerrold R. Coombs, eds., Applied Ethics: A Reader (London: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 271-292.

Reprinted in Donald VanDeVeer and Christne Pierce, eds., The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book: Philosophy, Ecology, Economics , 1st ed.(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1994), pp. 88-93, 485-492.

Reprinted in Michael Boylan, ed., Environmental Ethics (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001), pages 228-247.

Reprinted in David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott, eds., Environmental Ethics: Introductory Readings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pages 33-38.

Reprinted in part as "Why Species Matter," in Donald VanDeVeer and Christine Pierce, eds. The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book, 2nd ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998), pages 504-511.

Reprinted, translated into Chinese, in Ch'iu Jen-tsung, ed., Kuo wai tzy jan k'o hsueh che hsueh wen t'i (Philosophical Problems in Foreign Natural Science). Chung-kuo she hui k'o hsueh, 1994. Beijing: Chinese Social Science Press, 1994. ISBN 7-5004- 1514-1. Pages 276-295.    Download/print in PDF format, 800 kb.

Reprinted, translated into Spanish as "Ética ambiental: Valores y deberes en el mundo natural," pages 293-317 in Teresa Kwiatkowska and Jorge Issa, eds, Los caminos de la ética ambiental (The Ways of Environmental Ethics) (C.P. 06470, Mexico, D.F.: Plaza y Valdés Editores, 1998).

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

Summarized with commentary by Panagiotis Perros, Philosophy, National University in Athens, Greece, 2004. In Greek. Online at http://filosofia.gr/ecoethics/. Alternatively, download/print archived html wepage.

"The Land Ethic at the Turn of the Millennium." Reprinted in Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler, eds., Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence, 3rd ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004), pages 392-399. Originally in Biodiversity and Conservation 9(2000):1045-1058.

"Nature for Real: Is Nature a Social Construct?" In Timothy D. J. Chappell, ed., The Philosophy of the Environment (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1997), pages 38-64. Download/print in PDF format, 1.4 mb.

"Are Values in Nature Subjective or Objective?" in Robert Elliot and Aaran Gare, Environmental Philosophy (St. Lucia, New York, London: University of Queensland Press and University Park, PA and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983).

Also published in Environmental Ethics 4(1982):125-151. Download/Print in PDF format, 3.5 mb.

Reprinted in Louis P. Pojman, ed., Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, second edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998), pages 70-81, with response by Ernest Partridge, "Values in Nature: Is Anybody There?" and response by Rolston, "Values at Stake: Does Anything Matter?", pages. 88-90. Also published in Environmental Ethics 4(1982):125-151.

Reprinted, translated into Chinese, "Ziran zhong de jiashi shi zhuguande haishi keguande?" in Huanjing yu Shehai (Environment and Society) 1(no. 1, 1998):49-55, First half. Second half, 2(no. 1, 1999):53-57, second half. Liu Er, Ye Ping, translators. Download/print in PDF format, 900 mb.

"Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species," in Louis P. Pojman, ed., Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, 3rd ed. (Belmont CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2001), pages 76-86. Original article first published in this anthology. Download/print in PDF format, 1.3 mb. Paper given at American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, December 1998. With published commentary, Ned Hettinger, "Comments on Holmes Rolston's `Naturalizing Values'," pages 86-89.   4th edition (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005), pages 88-100. 5th edition, Louis P. Pojman and Paul Pojman, eds., Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008), pp. 107-120.

"Duties to Ecosystems," in J. Baird Callicott, ed. Companion to a Sand County Almanac (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987), pp. 246-274.

"Ecology" in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Carl Mitcham, ed. (Farmington Hills, MI Macmillan Reference USA, Thomson/Gale 2005), vol. 2, pp. 580-583. Download/print in PDF format, 270 kb.

"The Preservation of Natural Value in the Solar System," in Eugene C. Hargrove, ed., Beyond Spaceship Earth: Environmental Ethics and the Solar System (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986), pp. 140-182. Originally presented at conference on "Environmental Ethics and the Solar System," June 5-8, 1985, University of Georgia, Athens, and sponsored by EVIST, National Science Foundation, and the Planetary Society. Download/print in PDF format, 875 kb.

"The River of Life: Past, Present, and Future," in Ernest Partridge, ed., Responsibilities to Future Generations (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1981), pp. 123-132. Download/print in PDF format, 560 kb.

Translated into Italian: "Il fiume di vita: passato, presente e futuro," Aut Aut: rivista di filosofia e di cultura, Issue 316-317, July-October 2003, pages 139-144. Translated by Roberto Peverelli.

"Nature and Human Emotions" in Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Thomas W. Attig, eds., Understanding Human Emotions (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Studies in Applied Philosophy, 1979), volume 1, pages 89-96. Reprinted in Philosophy Gone Wild. Download/print in PDF format, 220 kb.

"Beauty and the Beast: Aesthetic Appreciation of Wildlife," in D. J. Decker and G. Goff, Valuing Wildlife Resources: Economic and Social Perspectives (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987), pp. 187- 207. Download/print in PDF format, 515 kb. Also published in The Trumpeter (Canada) 3, no. 3 (Summer 1986):29-34.

"Beyond Recreational Value: The Greater Outdoors," in Laura B. Szwak, ed., Americans Outdoors: A Literature Review (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1987) Paper commissioned by President's Commission on Americans Outdoors.

"The Human Standing in Nature: Fitness in the Moral Overseer," in Wayne Sumner, Donald Callen, and Thomas Attig, eds., Values and Moral Standing (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Studies in Applied Philosophy, 1986), volume 8, pp. 90-101.


"Just Environmental Business." Chapter 11, pages 324-359, in Tom Regan, ed., Just Business: New Introductory Essays in Business Ethics (New York: Random House, 1984). Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. Reprinted in Dale Westphal and Fred Westphal, eds., Planet in Peril: Essays in Environmental Ethics (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994), pp. 149-170. Download/print in PDF format, 1.1 mb.

 

 

"Biology Without Conservation: An Environmental Misfit and Contradiction in Terms," in David Western and Mary C. Pearl, eds., Conservation for the Twenty-first Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 232-240.

"Values Gone Wild" in Susan Armstrong and Richard Botzler, eds., Environmental Ethics: Convergence and Divergence (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), pages 56-65. Originally published in Inquiry 26(1983):181-207. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild. Download/print in PDF format, 760 kb.

"Biology and Philosophy in Yellowstone." In Susan Armstrong and Richard Botzler, eds., Environmental Ethics: Convergence and Divergence, 1st edition, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), pages 28-38. Originally published in Biology and Philosophy 5(1990):241-258.

 


"The Value of Species," from "Duties to Endangered Species" (from BioScience 35(1985):718-726) reprinted in the anthology, Tom Regan and Peter Singer, eds., Animal Rights and Human Obligations, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989), pp. 252- 255.

"Duties to Endangered Species" (BioScience 35(1985):718-726).  Reprinted in Robert Elliot, ed., Environmental Ethics, Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 60- 75.

"Duties to Endangered Species" (BioScience 35(1985):718-726).  Reprinted in Raymond Bradley and Stephen Duguid, eds., Environmental Ethics, Volume II (Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University, Institute for the Humanities, 1989), pp. 67-83.

"Duties to Endangered Species" (BioScience 35(1985):718-726).  Reprinted in James P. Sterba, ed., Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights, and Practical Applications (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1995), pp. 317-328.

"Duties to Endangered Species " (BioScience 35(1985):718-726).  Reprinted in James E. White, ed., Contemporary Moral Problems, 6th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2000), pages 585-594.

"Duties to Endangered Species" (BioScience 35(1985):718-726).  Reprinted in Frederick A. Kaufman, Foundations of Environmental Philosophy: A Text with Readings (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003), pp. 67-73.

"Duties to Endangered Species" (BioScience 35(1985):718-726).  Reprinted in Andrew Brennan, ed., The Ethics of the Environment, in The International Research Library of Philosophy (Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1995), pages 77-85. U.S. Distributor: Ashgate Publishing Co., Brookfield, VT.

"Duties to Endangered Species" (BioScience 35(1985):718-726).  Reprinted in J. Baird Callicott and Clare Palmer, eds., Environmental Philosophy: Critical Concepts in the Environment (London: Routledge, 2005), vol. 4, pp. 263-277.

"Our Duties to Endangered Species," invited box essay in Gary K. Meffe and C. Ronald Carroll, eds., Principles of Conservation Biology (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer and Associates, 1994), pages 30- 31. 2nd edition, 1997, pages 35-36.


"Environment, Nature, and God," co-authored with Jack Weir (Department of Philosophy, Hardin-Simmons University). Chapter 22, pages 229-240, in Frederick Ferre, ed., Concepts of Nature and God (Athens: University of Georgia, Department of Philosophy, 1989). Proceedings of 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Concepts of Nature and God.

"Science-Based vs. Traditional Cultural Values in a Global Ethic." Pages 63-72 in J. Ronald Engel and Joan Engel, eds., Ethics of Environment and Development. London: Belhaven Press and Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1990.

Published in Chinese translation in Ch'iu Jen-tsung, ed., Kuo wai tzy jan k'o hsueh che hsueh wen t'i (Philosophical Problems in Foreign Natural Science). Chung-kuo she hui k'o hsueh, 1994. Beijing: Chinese Social Science Press, 1994. ISBN 7-5004-1514-1. Pages 259-275.     Download/print in PDF format, 650 kb.

"Life in Jeopardy on Private Property," in Kathryn A. Kohm, ed., Balancing on the Brink of Extinction: The Endangered Species Act and Lessons for the Future (Washington, D. C.: Island Press, 1991), pages 43-61.

"Creation and Recreation: Environmental Benefits and Human Leisure." In B. L. Driver, Perry J. Brown, and George L. Peterson, eds., Benefits of Leisure (State College, PA: Venture Publishing, Inc., 1991), pages 393-403.

"Fishes in the Desert--Paradox and Responsibility." In W. L. Minckley and James E. Deacon, eds., Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management in the American West, an anthology of the Desert Fishes Council. (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1991), pages 93-108. Download/print in PDF Format, 1.0 mb.

"Wildlife and Wildlands: A Christian Perspective," in After Nature's Revolt: Eco-justice and Theology, Dieter T. Hessel, ed., (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), pages 122-143. First published in Church and Society 80 (no. 4, March/April 1990):16-40.

Reprinted in part as "Christians, Wildlife, Wildlands," in Earth Letter, January 2001, pp. 4-6. (Earth Ministry, 1305 NE 47th St., Seattle, WA 98105).

Translated into Chinese in Dieter T. Hessel, ed., Shengtai gongyi: Dui dadi fanpuide xinyang fanxing (Taiwan: Diqiuri Chubanshe, 1997), pp. 233-256. Translated by Text Committee of the Taiwan Ecological Theology Center. ISBN 0-8006-2532-3.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)." Pages 93-100 in Joy A. Palmer, ed., Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (London: Routledge, 2001).

Translated into Japanese. Vol. 1, pages 181-194 in Kankyo no shisoka tachi [Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment], trans. Sudou Jiyuji (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2004). ISBN 4-622-08161-X.

"A Forest Ethic and Multivalue Forest Management," co-authored with James Coufal, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse. Reprinted in Peter C. List, ed., Environmental Ethics and Forestry: A Reader (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), pages 189-195. Originally in Journal of Forestry 89(no. 4, 1991):35-40.

"Naturalizing Callicott." Pages 107-122 in Ouderkirk, Wayne, and Hill, Jim, eds., Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002).

"Environmental Bioethics," in Goudie, Andrew S., Editor in Chief, Encyclopedia of Global Change, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), vol. 1, pp. 399-401.

Environmental Ethics, reprint from Chapter 6, "The Concept of Natural Value" as "Valuing the Environment." Pages 208-211 in Mark J. Smith, ed., Thinking Through the Environment: A Reader (London: Routledge, 1999).

"From Beauty to Duty: Aesthetics of Nature and Environmental Ethics." Pages 127-141 in Arnold Berleant, eds., Environment and the Arts: Perspectives on Environmental Ethics (Aldershot, Hampshire, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002). Download/print in PDF format, 861 kb.

Reprinted in Allen Carlson and Sheila Lintott, eds., Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), pages 325-338.

"Science."  Pages 1494-1497 (Volume 2) in Bron R. Taylor, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum Publishers, 2005.

"Aesthetics of Nature and the Sacred."  Pages 18-21 (Volume 1) in Bron R. Taylor, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum Publishers, 2005.

"Wild Animals, Duties to."  Pages 362-364 in Marc Bekoff with Carron A. Meaney, eds., Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998).

"Endangered Species."  Pages 154-156 in Marc Bekoff with Carron A. Meaney, eds., Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998).

"Landscape from Eighteenth Century to the Present."  Pages 93-99, volume 3, in Michael Kelley, ed., Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

"Environmental Ethics and Religion/Science." Pages 908-928 in Philip Clayton and Zachary Simpson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). Download/Print in PDF format, 1.1 mb.

"Science and Religion in the Face of the Environmental Crisis." Pages 376-397 in Roger S. Gottlieb, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). Download/Print in PDF format, 1.2 mb. Download/Print in PDF format, 1.2 mb.

"Intrinsic Values on Earth: Nature and the Nations."  Pages 47-68 in Henk A.M.J. ten Have, ed., Environmental Ethics and International Policy (Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2006).   ISBN: 13:987-92-3-104039-9.

"Human Uniqueness and Human Dignity."   Pages 129-153 in President's Council on Bioethics, Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics. Washington, DC: President's Council on Bioethics, 2008.   Download/print in PDF format, 1.1 mb.
Also available online at
:http://www.bioethics.gov/topics/human_dignity.html

Reprinted as pages 129-153 in Edmund D. Pellegrino, Adam Schulman, and Thomas W. Merrill, eds., Human Dignity and Bioethics. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.

"Converging versus Reconstituting Environmental Ethics."   Pages 97-117 in Ben A. Minteer, ed., Nature in Common: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy  (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009).  Evaluation of Bryan G. Norton's "convergence hypothesis."    Download/Print in PDF format, 1.6 mb.

Five articles and annotated bibliography in Encylopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (2009):

"Antarctica."   Volume 1, pages 53-58 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, editors, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, Gale, 2009).

"Earth Summit."   Volume 1, pages 223-225 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, editors, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, Gale, 2009).

"Hargrove, Eugene."    Volume 1, pages 482-483 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, editors, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, Gale, 2009).

"Rio Declaration."    Volume 2, pages 201-202 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, editors, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, Gale, 2009).

"Wetlands."    Volume 2, pages 397-400 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, editors, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, Gale, 2009).

"Annotated Bibliography" (in Environmental Ethics and Philosopy).    Volume 2, pages 507-514 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, editors, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, Gale, 2009).