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756Individualist Biocentrism vs. Holism RevisitedLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 9 (2): 130-148. 2014.While holist views such as ecocentrism have considerable intuitive appeal, arguing for the moral considerability of ecological wholes such as ecosystems has turned out to be a very difficult task. In the environmental ethics literature, individualist biocentrists have persuasively argued that individual organisms—but not ecological wholes—are properly regarded as having a good of their own . In this paper, I revisit those arguments and contend that they are fatally flawed. The paper proceeds in …Read more
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Rolston's Theory of ValueIn Christopher J. Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk (ed.), Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III, Springer. 2007.
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94Virtue and respect for nature: Ronald Sandler's character and environment (review)Ethics, Place and Environment 11 (2). 2008.Ron Sandler's Character and Environment is a very welcome addition to the growing literature on virtue-based approaches to environmental ethics. In the book...
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21Environmental EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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