Moral Theory and Climate Change: Ethical Perspectives on a Warming Planet

ISBN-13: 9781138700000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str.

Dale E. Miller; Ben Eggleston

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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