Review of Andrew Brennan's Thinking about nature: nature, value and ecology
Date
1989
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Center for Environmental Philosophy at the University of North Texas, publisher
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Abstract
Brennan, a Scottish philosopher, seeks to keep philosophy ecologically honest. He is keenly attentive to what sort of environmental ethics has scientific support. He calls this eco-humanism. Yet there is nothing in scientific ecology that grounds any metaphysics. There is, however, supervenience, genuinely emergent properties. This results in an ethical polymorphism.
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environmental ethics
ecology
metaphysics
emergence
eco-humanism
ethical polymorphism
nature and culture
physics
intrinsic value