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Springer Nature Value Duty Life On Earth With Holmes Rolston Iii 2007 Edition by Christopher J. Preston Wayne Ouderkirk
This is a collection of contemporary writings on the work of Holmes Rolston III. The authors contributing to this volume are a mixture of senior scholars in environmental ethics and new voices in philosophy and in literature. Together they provide an in depth evaluation of many of the topics discussed by Rolston. Rolston himself in a detailed reply to each of his critics at the end of the volume reveals where some of these criticisms sting him the most. Table of contents : Introduction: A Philosopher Gone Wild: Holmes Rolston III and Environmental Philosophy; W. Ouderkirk C. Preston. 1. Rolston's Theory of Value; K. McShane. 2. Biotic and Abiotic Nature: How Radical is Rolston's Environmental Philosophy?; K. Lee. 3. Refining Rolston: A Natural Ontological Attitude Towards Natural Value; C. Preston. 4. In Rolston's Footsteps: Human Emotions and Values in Nature; M. Wynn.5. Religion in Rolston's Environmental Ethics; N. Hettinger. 6. Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: Holmes Rolston's Ecological Theology and Theodicy; L. Sideris. 7. 'We see beauty now where we could not see it before': Rolston's Aesthetics of Nature; A. Carlson. 8. Rolston on Objective and Subjective Beauty in Nature; E. Hargrove. 9. Words Gone Wild: Language in Rolston's Philosophy of Nature; B. Hausauer. 10. Caring for Nature: An Ecofeminist's View of Rolston on Eating Hunting and Genetics; V. Davion. 11. Rethinking Animal Ethics in Appropriate Context: How Rolston's Work Can Help; C.Palmer 12. Nature Diminished or Nature Managed: Applying Rolston's Environmental Ethics in National Parks; J. Lemons 13. Rolston on Urban Environments; A. Light J. Shepard. 14. Living on Earth: Dialogue and Dialectic with my Critics; H. Rolston III.