Environmental Ethics: Should We Preserve the Red Herring and Flounder? |
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Authors: | James B Gerrie |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada |
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Abstract: | Based on a survey of some popularintroductory anthologies and texts, I arguefrom my experience as a philosopher oftechnology that environmental philosophy mightbe conceived by some researchers in the fieldin terms of an overly narrow theoreticalfoundation. Many of the key figures in thefield take as a basic assumption that theenvironmental crisis is fundamentally bestexplained in terms of some failing in themetaphysical outlooks of most people. However,philosophers of technology typically present atleast two additional types of generalexplanation of the crisis. Environmentalethicists might benefit from consideration ofthese alternative ways of explaining the rootcauses of the ecological crisis. |
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Keywords: | environmental ethics philosophy of technology technological dependency |
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