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Collects key historical essays on the debate between animal rights and environmental ethics, tracing their development and exploring attempts to reconcile the moral value of individual animals with that of species and ecosystems.
Can the moral claims of individual animals be reconciled with the value of entire ecosystems, or are these two visions of ethics ultimately in conflict?
The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate brings together the most important original writings in the debate between Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics, presenting the intellectual history of a foundational dispute in contemporary moral philosophy. Organized around key texts by leading thinkers, the collection reveals how the disagreement has developed, sharpened, and in some cases converged over time.
From questions of sentience and species value to the moral standing of ecosystems and even extraterrestrial life, the essays map the central arguments that have shaped the field. Together, they offer both a critical archive of foundational work and a pathway toward possible reconciliation.
Designed for accessibility as well as depth, the book is suitable for students encountering environmental ethics for the first time, while also serving as a valuable resource for advanced scholars. It functions equally well as a textbook and as a reference for research and classroom discussion.
"This book traces the Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics dispute through the key steps of its history, in the form of the most important original articles, and points the way to a resolution. It is useful to the scholar interested in the animal rights issue and it is appropriate as a textbook in a course in Environmental Ethics at any level, from beginning to graduate. For the beginner, it teaches the key issues in non-technical language and for the scholar it traces the history of an important dispute and clearly distinguishes basic ideas in their historical context."— Donald C. Lee, University of New Mexico
"The best thing about this book is that it brings together (for the first time) the most important articles concerning the debate between animal rights and environmental ethics. A wide variety of views is represented, which provides significant amounts of material for classroom discussion." — Eric Katz, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Eugene C. Hargrove is Editor of Environmental Ethics and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, Denton.
Preface / Animal Welfare Ethics "versus" Environmental Ethics: The Problem of Sentient Life
Acknowledgments
1. Self-Consciousness and the Right of Nonhuman Animals and Nature
Richard A. Watson
2. Animal Liberation: A Triangle Affair
J. Baird Callicott
3. Environmental Ethics and Nonhuman Rights
Bryan G. Norton
4. The Ethics of Respect for Nature
Paul W. Taylor
5. The Significance of Species
Mary Midgley
6. Moral Considerability and Extraterrestrial Life
J. Baird Callicott
7. Foundations of Wildlife Protection Attitudes
Eugene C. Hargrove
8. The Rights of the Nonhuman World
Mary Anne Warren
9. The Miced Community
Mary Midgley
10. Taking Sympathy Seriously: A Defense of Our Moral Psychology Toward Animals
John A. Fisher
11. Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Back Together Again
J. Baird Callicott
Index