The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics The Virtuous Epistemic Circle /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bergandi, Donato. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 296
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Ethics.; Biology > Philosophy.; Science > Philosophy.; Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of Biology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5067-8

Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across...

Table of Contents:

• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Ecology, Evolution, Ethics: In Search of a Meta-Paradigm - An Introduction; Donato Bergandi
• 2 Evolution Versus Creation: A Sibling Rivalry?; Michael Ruse
• 3 Evolution and Chance; Jean Gayon
• 4 Some Conceptions of Time in Ecology; Jean-Marc Drouin
• 5 Facts, Values, and Analogies: A Darwinian Approach to Environmental Choice; Bryan G. Norton
• 6 Towards EcoEvoEthics; Patrick Blandin
• 7 Ecology and Moral Ontology; John Baird Callicott
• 8 Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics; Tom Regan
• 9 Reconciling Individualist and Deeper Environmentalist Theories? An Exploration; Robin Attfield
• 10 Two Philosophies of the Environmental Crisis; Catherine Larrr̈e 11 Epilogue : The Epistemic and Practical Circle in an Evolutionary, Ecologically Sustainable Society; Donato Bergandi
• Index.