Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorCenter for Environmental Philosophy at the University of North Texas, publisher2020-08-112020-08-111989Rolston, H., III, Review of Andrew Brennan, Thinking about Nature: Nature, Value and Ecology (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul), Environmental Ethics 11(1989):259-267. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics198911312https://hdl.handle.net/10217/211065Brennan, 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.born digitalreviews (documents)eng©1989 Center for Environmental Philosophy at the University of North Texas.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.environmental ethicsecologymetaphysicsemergenceeco-humanismethical polymorphismnature and culturephysicsintrinsic valueText