Refounding Environmental Ethics: Pragmatism Principle and Practice

About this book

Providing a bold and original rethinking of environmental ethics Ben Minteers Refounding Environmental Ethics will help ethicists and their allies resolve critical debates in environmental policy and conservation practice. Minteer considers the implications of John Deweys pragmatist philosophy for environmental ethics politics and practice. He provides a new and compelling intellectual foundation for the fieldoone that supports a more activist collaborative and problem-solving philosophical enterprise. Combining environmental ethics democratic theory philosophical pragmatism and the environmental social sciences Minteer makes the case for a more experimental interdisciplinary and democratic style of environmental ethicsoone that stands as an alternative to the fields historically dominant "nature-centred" outlook. Minteer also provides examples of his pragmatic approach in action considering a wide range of application and issues including invasive species ecological research biodiversity loss protected area management and conservation under global climate change.