Ian A. Smith

The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species' intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish-its organisms continuing to reproduce successfully and it avoiding extinction-which helps to demonstrate a further claim, that humans ought to preserve species that we have endangered. He shows our need to exercise humility in our relations with endangered species through the preservation of their intrinsic goods, which in turn rectifies our degradation of their importance. Unique in its appeal to virtue ethics and to species concepts, The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species is an important resource for scholars working in environmental ethics and the philosophy of biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317605966
• Artikelnr.: 44753109

Autorenporträt

Ian A. Smith is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washburn University, US

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Humpback Chub 2. Species Concepts and Ontology 3.
Rolston's Account: Objective Value 4. Johnson's Account: Well-Being
Interests 5. Callicott's Account: Leopold's Story 6. The Intrinsic Goods of
Species 7. The Role of Humility 8. Problems and Solutions 9. Competing
Moral Considerations, Preservation Considerations 10. Preservation of
Higher-Order Taxa?