“This collection of essays on environmental ethics, now in its second edition, is invaluable. It contains not just the classic ground-breaking essays on the land ethic, on shallow and deep ecology, and on socialist and feminist approaches to the environment (by Leopold, Naess, Bookchin, Merchant and others), but also up-to-the-minute essays on key issues, including anthropocentrism and speciesism and the rights of future generations, as well as reviewing the arguments around climate change. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to sharpen their moral awareness in addressing the global environmental crisis.”
—Dermot Moran, University College Dublin
“Boylan combines provocative readings on animals, environment and sustainability, with object lessons in how to think clearly about tricky cases. A neat feature of the book is the way in which the cases are deftly woven into the structure of the collection. The result is a hands-on guide on how to think clearly about some of the baffling issues in environmental ethics.”
—Andrew Brennan, La Trobe University
The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays newly commissioned for this edition.
The volume includes a new discussion on ethical decision-making, as well as new coverage of pollution and climate change, and a new section on sustainability. Pedagogical features include cases and instructions on how to work-up cases into argumentative essays. The new edition has been designed to continue to meet the needs of classroom instruction with a dialogue that is both enriching and illuminating.
From the Back Cover
The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays newly commissioned for this edition.
The volume includes a new discussion on ethical decision-making, as well as new coverage of pollution and climate change, and a new section on sustainability. Pedagogical features include cases and instructions on how to work-up cases into argumentative essays. The new edition has been designed to continue to meet the needs of classroom instruction with a dialogue that is both enriching and illuminating.
About the Author
Michael Boylan is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author and editor of 26 books, including his manifesto on social/political philosophy A Just Society (2004), and on cosmopolitanism Morality and Global Justice: Justifications and Applications (2011). Boylan was himself the focus of an edited volume, Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan’s A Just Society (2009). He has served on professional and governmental policy committees and was a fellow at the Center for American Progress and a program presenter at The Brookings Institution. He has been an invited speaker in nine countries around the world, including talks in Oxford, Cambridge, Cologne, Oslo, Dublin, Sydney, and the Sorbonne.
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