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Naturalizing values: organisms and species

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorWadsworth, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:29:30Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:29:30Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.descriptionPaper given at American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, December 1998.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).
dc.description.abstractPhilosophers are seem unable and unwilling to naturalize value. But values are deeply embedded in evolutionary and ecological natural history. Biologists are regularly discovering such values; survival value is a key to natural selection and adapted fit. Nevertheless, most philosophers insist that value is anthropocentric, allowing only dispositional value to nature, also value where there is sentient life. These psychological accounts are incomplete. This is evidenced in non-sentient organisms, in species lines, and in genetic knowledge. Unless we naturalize values, we face an epistemic and axiological crisis.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species, Pojman, Louis P., ed., Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, 3rd ed., 76-86. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/37189
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectbiocentric values
dc.subjectaxiology
dc.subjectmetaphysics
dc.subjectepistemology
dc.subjectethics
dc.subjectvalues
dc.subjectnaturalism
dc.subjectdragonflies
dc.subjectleaf stomata
dc.subjectbacterial clocks
dc.subjectgenomes
dc.titleNaturalizing values: organisms and species
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