{"product_id":"9783030116347","title":"Ecology and Justice - Citizenship in Biotic Communities (Studies in Global Justice)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 itself imbued with philosophical questions. Therefore, studies in ecological justice, the sub-discipline of global justice that relates to the interaction of human and natural systems, should be preceded by the study of the philosophy of ecology. This book enables the reader to access a philosophy of ecology and shows how this philosophy is inherently normative and provides tools for securing ecological justice. The moral philosophy of ecology directly addresses the root cause of ecological and environmental injustice:  the violation of fundamental human rights caused by the inequitable distribution of the benefits (economies) and costs (diseconomies) of industrialism. Philosophy of ecology thus has implications for human rights, pollution, poverty, unequal access to resources, sustainability, consumerism, land use, biodiversity, industrialization, energy policy, and other issues of social and global justice. This book offers an historical and interdisciplinary exegesis. The analysis is situated in the context of the Western intellectual tradition, and includes great thinkers in the history of ecological thinking in the West from the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeller asks the big questions and surveys answers with remarkable detail.  Here is an insightful analysis of contemporary, classical, and ancient thought, alike in the ecological sciences, the humanities, and economics, the roots and fruits of our concepts of nature and of being in the world.  Keller is unexcelled in bridging the is\/ought gap, bridging nature and culture, and in celebrating the richness oflife, its pattern, process, and creativity on our wonderland Earth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHolmes Rolston, III \n\u003c\/b\u003eUniversity Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University\nAuthor of A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth (2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMentored by renowned ecologist Frank Golley and renowned philosopher Frederick Ferré, David Keller is well prepared to provide a deep history and a sweeping synthesis of the \"idea of ecology\"-including the metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical aspects of that idea, as well as the scientific. \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Baird Callicott \n\u003c\/b\u003eUniversity Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas\nAuthor of Thinking Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic (2013)\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid R. Keller\u003c\/b\u003e is deceased. He was Professor of Philosophy, University Professor of Environmental Studies, and Director Emeritus of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48816190849259,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":137.47,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783030116347-1.jpg?v=1781716791","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9783030116347","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}