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1 online resource (173 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory ; 34 |
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Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory ; 34.
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1 Introduction: The Humpback Chub; 1.1 Intrinsic Value; 1.2 Are Species Real?; 1.3 Moving from a Description of Species to the Preservation of Species; 1.4 Species' Intrinsic Goods and the Need to Move beyond Instrumental Goods; 1.5 The Contemporary Relevance of Species Preservation; 1.6 Outline of Book; 2 Species Concepts and Ontology; 2.1 Faulty Species Concepts; 2.2 Phylogenetic Systematics (Cladism) and the Objection to the BSC; 2.3 Introducing the Hennigian Species Concept; 2.4 The Two Primary Objections to the HSC |
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3 Rolston's Account: Objective Value3.1 What Are Species, for Rolston?; 3.2 The Move from Is to Value; 3.3 The Move (or Lack Thereof) from Value to Ought; 3.4 Additional Problems with the Ecological and Evolutionary Species Concepts; 4 Johnson's Account: Well-Being Interests; 4.1 Intrinsically Valuable Interests and the Intrinsic Value of Humans; 4.2 The Well-Being Interests of Species; 4.3 Johnson's Problematic Appeal to the Ecological Species Concept; 4.4 Why Johnson's Account Is Unsubstantiated; 5 Callicott's Account: Leopold's Story; 5.1 How We Come to Intrinsically Value Nature |
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5.2 Why Should We Preserve Species' Intrinsic Value?6 The Intrinsic Goods of Species; 6.1 Flourishing and Species; 6.2 The Human Species Being in Danger; 6.3 A Summation of the Intrinsic Value Account for Sexual Species; 6.4 Distinguishing Intrinsic Goods; 6.5 Postscript; 7 The Role of Humility; 7.1 The Normative Conception of Humility; 7.2 "De-Extinction" of Species?; 8 Problems and Solutions; 8.1 Regan's Objection; 8.2 Sandler's Objection; 8.3 What about the Flourishing of a Hurricane?; 8.4 What about the Flourishing of a Tractor?; 8.5 Invasive Species |
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8.6 Darwinian Extinction through Sex Selection8.7 Narrow Focus; 9 Competing Moral Considerations, Preservation Considerations; 9.1 Flourishing for Humans; 9.2 Letting These Mosquito Species Go; 9.3 Competing Preservation Considerations: Species vs. Individuals of the Species; 9.4 Competing Preservation Considerations: Limited Resources; 9.5 A Much More Difficult Case: Nonhuman Organismic Flourishing?; 10 Preservation of Higher-Order Taxa?; 10.1 Linnaean Taxa Reality?; 10.2 Phylogenetic Clades; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
"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."--Page i |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Endangered species.
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Biodiversity conservation -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Biodiversity conservation -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Endangered species
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317605973 |
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1317605977 |
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