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  1. Strangers in a Strange Land: The Problem of Exotic Species.Mark Woods & Paul Veatch Moriarty - 2001 - Environmental Values 10 (2):163-190.
    Environmentalists consider invasions by exotic species of plants and animals to be one of the most serious environmental problems we face today, as well as one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss. We argue that in order to develop and enact sensible policies, it is crucial to consider two philosophical questions: What exactly makes a species native or exotic, and What values are at stake? We focus on the first of these two questions, and offer some preliminary suggestions with (...)
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  • Hunting ≠ predation.Paul Veatch Moriarty & Mark Woods - 1997 - Environmental Ethics 19 (4):391-404.
    Holmes Rolston has defended certain forms of hunting and meat eating when these activities are seen as natural participation in the food chains in which we evolved. Ned Hettinger has suggested that some of Rolston’s principles that govern our interactions with plants and animals might appear to be inconsistent with Rolston’s defense of these activities. Hettinger attempts to show that they are not. We argue that Rolston’s principles are not consistent with hunting, given Hettinger’s modifications. In his defense of Rolston, (...)
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  • (1 other version)Against the moral considerability of ecosystems.Harley Cahen - 1988 - Environmental Ethics 10 (3):195-216.
    Are ecosystems morally considerable-that is, do we owe it to them to protect their “interests”? Many environmental ethicists, impressed by the way that individual nonsentient organisms such as plants tenaciously pursue their own biological goals, have concluded that we should extend moral considerability far enough to include such organisms. There is a pitfall in the ecosystem-to-organism analogy, however. We must distinguish a system’s genuine goals from the incidental effects, or byproducts, of the behavior of that system’s parts. Goals seem capable (...)
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  • (3 other versions)The Case for Animal Rights.Tom Regan - 1985 - Human Studies 8 (4):389-392.
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  • Essay Review: Exploring the Borders of Environmental History and the History of Ecology.William Cronon - 1997 - Journal of the History of Biology 30 (2):291-302.
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  • The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory.Robert P. Mcintosh - 1986 - Journal of the History of Biology 19 (2):314-316.
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  • Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management.Robert Costanza & Bryan G. Norton - 1992
    Discusses managing the environment from philosophical, scientific, and political perspectives.
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  • Conserving Natural Value.Holmes Rolston - 1994 - Columbia University Press.
    This introduction to biological conservation assesses the value judgments at the heart of conservation. The author elaborates on such questions as: how much habitat does an endangered species require?; does this particular species deserve to be saved?; who will pay for its upkeep?; and much more.
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  • Refocusing Ecocentrism.Bill Throop - 1999 - Environmental Ethics 21 (1):3-21.
    Traditional ecocentric ethics relies on an ecology that emphasizes the stability and integrity of ecosystems. Numerous ecologists now focus on natural systems that are less clearly characterized by these properties. We use the elimination and restoration of wolves in Yellowstone to illustrate troubles for traditional ecocentric ethics caused by ecological models emphasizing instability in natural systems. We identify several other problems for a stability-integrity based ecocentrism as well. We show how an ecocentric ethic can avoid these difficulties by emphasizing the (...)
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  • Alternative Analyses.Heather J. Gert - 1995 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 33 (1):31-37.
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  • (1 other version)Proper names.John R. Searle - 1958 - Mind 67 (266):166-173.
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  • Vagueness and identity.B. J. Garrett - 1988 - Analysis 48 (3):130.
    The thesis that there can be vague objects is the thesis that there can be identity statements which are indeterminate in truth-value (i.e., neither true nor false) as a result of vagueness (as opposed, e.g., to reference-failure), "the singular terms of which do not have their references fixed by vague descriptive means". (if this is "not" what is meant by the thesis that there can be vague objects, it is not clear what "is" meant by it.) the possibility of vague (...)
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  • (1 other version)Faking Nature: The Ethics of Environmental Restoration.Robert Elliot - 1997 - Environmental Values 8 (1):122-123.
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  • Review of K. S. Shrader-Frechette: Method in ecology: strategies for conservation[REVIEW]Dale Jamieson - 1996 - Ethics 106 (2):477-479.
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  • The Economics of Biological Invasions.Charles Perrings, Mark Williamson & Silvana Dalmazzone - 2003 - Environmental Values 12 (1):138-140.
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  • Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine.Dale Jamieson - 1995 - Environmental Values 4 (4):333 - 344.
    Some ecologists, philosophers, and policy analysts believe that ecosystem health can be defined in a rigorous way and employed as a management goal in environmental policy. The idea of ecosystem health may have something to recommend it as part of a rhetorical strategy, but I am dubious about its utility as a technical term in environmental policy. I develop several objections to this latest version of scientism in environmental policy, and conclude that our environmental problems fundamentally involve problems in our (...)
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  • Method in ecology: strategies for conservation.K. S. Shrader-Frechette (ed.) - 1993 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    In this volume, the authors discuss what practical contributions ecology can and can't make in applied science and environmental problem solving. In the first section, they discuss conceptual problems that have often prevented the formulation and evaluation of powerful, precise, general theories, explain why island biogeography is still beset with controversy and examine the ways that science is value laden. In the second section, they describe how ecology can give us specific answers to practical environmental questions posed in individual case (...)
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  • (1 other version)Rethinking Wilderness.Mark Woods - 2017 - Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press.
    The concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation, have been under attack for the past several decades. In _Rethinking Wilderness_, Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. Woods offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book combines environmental philosophy, environmental history, environmental social sciences, the science of ecology, and (...)
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  • Conserving Natural Value.Holmes Rolston Iii (ed.) - 1994 - Columbia University Press.
    An eloquent introduction to the ethical and philosophical values at stake in biological conservation, this book familiarizes readers with the general issues and possible solutions to the problems societies face in simultaneously conserving nature and promoting culture.
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  • (3 other versions)The Case for Animal Rights.Tom Regan & Mary Midgley - 1986 - The Personalist Forum 2 (1):67-71.
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  • Reinventing Nature?: Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction.Michael E. Soulé & Gary Lease (eds.) - 1995 - Island Press.
    Reinventing Nature? is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions and conceptions of nature affect both the individual experience and society's management of nature. Leading thinkers from a variety of fields - philosophy sociology, zoology, history, ethnobiology and others - address the conflict between the perception and reality of nature, each from a different perspective.
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  • The Analytic and the Synthetic'.Hillary Putman - 1975 - In Samuel D. Guttenplan (ed.), Mind and language. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press. pp. 2.
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  • Exotic Species, Naturalisation, and Biological Nativism.Ned Hettinger - 2001 - Environmental Values 10 (2):193-224.
    Contrary to frequent characterisations, exotic species should not be identified as damaging species, species introduced by humans, or species originating from some other geographical location. Exotics are best characterised ecologically as species that are foreign to an ecological assemblage in the sense that they have not significantly adapted with the biota constituting that assemblage or to the local abiotic conditions. Exotic species become natives when they have ecologically naturalised and when human influence over their presence in an assemblage (if any) (...)
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  • (3 other versions)The case for animal rights.Tom Regan - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 425-434.
    More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered preface, Regan responds to his critics and defends the book's revolutionary position.
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  • (1 other version)Faking Nature: The Ethics of Environmental Restoration.Robert Elliot - 1997 - Ethics and the Environment 3 (2):201-205.
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  • Do Deconstructive Ecology and Sociobiology Undermine Leopold’s Land Ethic?J. Baird Callicott - 1996 - Environmental Ethics 18 (4):353-372.
    Recent deconstructive developments in ecology (doubts about the existence of unified communities and ecosystems, the diversity-stability hypothesis, and a natural homeostasis or “balance of nature”; and an emphasis on “chaos,” “perturbation,” and directionless change in living nature) and the advent of sociobiology (selfish genes) may seem to undermine the scientific foundations of environmental ethics, especially the Leopold land ethic. A reassessment of the Leopold land ethic in light of these developments (and vice versa) indicates that the land ethic is still (...)
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  • An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology.Joel B. Hagen & Gregg Mitman - 1994 - Journal of the History of Biology 27 (2):349-357.
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  • Eradicating the aliens: restoration and exotic species.William Throop - 2000 - In Environmental Restoration: Ethics, Theory, and Practice. Humanity Books. pp. 179--191.
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  • In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment.Jane Bennett & William Chaloupka (eds.) - 1993 - Univ of Minnesota Press.
    Annotation. Informed by recent developments in literary criticism and social theory, this book addresses the presumption that nature exists independent of culture and, in particular, of language.
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  • (1 other version)Biographies.[author unknown] - 2005 - Annals of Science 62 (1):121-139.
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