Ecology and Justice-Citizenship in Biotic Communities

• Main Author: Keller, David R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Global Justice, 19
• Subjects: Ethics.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Environmental sciences-Philosophy.; Philosophy of nature.; International environmental law.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Moral Philosophy.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Environmental Philosophy.; Philosophy of Nature.; International Environmental Law.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

This is the first book to outline a basic philosophy of ecology using the standard categories of academic philosophy: metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy. The problems of global justice invariably involve ecological factors. Yet the science of ecology is...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword; Deen Chatterjee
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• about the author
• PART I: The History of Ecology
• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Idea of Ecology
• Chapter 2. Ecological Thinking in the Western Tradition
• PART II: The Metaphysics of Ecology
• Chapter 3. Entities in Patterned Process
• Chapter 4. Patterned Process in Biological Evolution
• Chapter 5. Reductionism, Holism, and Hierarchy Theory
• PART III: The Epistemology of Ecology
• Chapter 6. Realism or Relativism?
• Chapter 7. From Empiricism and Rationalism to Kant and Nietzsche
• PART IV: The Normativity of Ecology
• Chapter 8. Ethics of Ecology
• Chapter 9. Political Economy of Ecology
• Chapter 10. Beauty, Bioempathy, and Ecological Ethics; Kirk Robinson.