- The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics
- The Contributors
- Introducing Contemporary Environmental Ethics
- A History of Environmental Ethics
- Environmental Science: Empirical Claims in Environmental Ethics
- Markets, Ethics, and Environment
- Law, Governance, and the Ecological Ethos
- The Anthropocene!: Beyond the Natural?
- Anthropocentrism: Humanity as Peril and Promise
- Conscious Animals and the Value of Experience
- Living Individuals: Biocentrism in Environmental Ethics
- How Ecological Collectives are Morally Considerable
- Valuing Wild Nature
- Truth and Goodness: Metaethics in Environmental Ethics
- Practical Reasons and Environmental Commitment
- Environmental Hermeneutics and the Meaning of Nature
- Phenomenology and Environmental Ethics
- Aesthetic Value, Nature, and Environment
- Consequentialism in Environmental Ethics
- Rights, Rules, and Respect for Nature
- Environmental Virtue Ethics: Value, Normativity, and Right Action
- Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous and Feminist Philosophies
- The Sacred, Reverence for Life, and Environmental Ethics in America
- Individual and Contributory Responsibility for Environmental Harm
- Justice on One Planet
- Sexual Politics in Environmental Ethics: Impacts, Causes, Alternatives
- Human Rights and the Environment
- Ecological Space: The Concept and Its Ethical Significance
- Risk and Precaution in Decision Making about Nature
- Citizenship and (Un)Sustainability: A Green Republican Perspective
- Future Generations in Environmental Ethics
- Sustainability as the Multigenerational Public Interest
- The Ethics of Environmental Pollution
- Population and Environment: The Impossible, the Impermissible, and the Imperative
- Ethical Energy Choices
- Narratives of Food, Agriculture, and the Environment
- Water Ethics: Toward Ecological Cooperation
- Anthropogenic Mass Extinction: The Science, the Ethics, and the Civics
- Philosophy of Technology and the Environment
- The Ethics of Ecosystem Management
- Mitigation: First Imperative of Environmental Ethics
- Ethics and Climate Adaptation
- Climate Diplomacy
- Geoengineering: Ethical Questions for Deliberate Climate Manipulators
- Environmental Conflict
- Environmental Ethics, Sustainability Science, and the Recovery of Pragmatism
- Sacrifice and the Possibilities for Environmental Action
- From Environmental Ethics to Environmental Action
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Consciousness, understood as an awareness of what is going on that helps shape one’s experiences, is one of the ways that scholars have distinguished animal life from the rest of the natural world. Beings that have interests in having good experiences and avoiding bad ones deserve our moral attention, and this quality is an important feature of ethical engagement with other sentient beings, both human and nonhuman. What interests matter and why they matter is a subject of disagreement that has affected what we judge to be permissible or impermissible treatment of other animals. Empathy toward and respect for other animals takes us beyond attention to their suffering and has us focus on what counts as well-being for others, by their own lights.
Keywords: sentience, experientialism, nonhuman animals, empathy, umwelt, pain, suffering, well-being
Lori Gruen, Philosophy Department, Wesleyan University
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- The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics
- The Contributors
- Introducing Contemporary Environmental Ethics
- A History of Environmental Ethics
- Environmental Science: Empirical Claims in Environmental Ethics
- Markets, Ethics, and Environment
- Law, Governance, and the Ecological Ethos
- The Anthropocene!: Beyond the Natural?
- Anthropocentrism: Humanity as Peril and Promise
- Conscious Animals and the Value of Experience
- Living Individuals: Biocentrism in Environmental Ethics
- How Ecological Collectives are Morally Considerable
- Valuing Wild Nature
- Truth and Goodness: Metaethics in Environmental Ethics
- Practical Reasons and Environmental Commitment
- Environmental Hermeneutics and the Meaning of Nature
- Phenomenology and Environmental Ethics
- Aesthetic Value, Nature, and Environment
- Consequentialism in Environmental Ethics
- Rights, Rules, and Respect for Nature
- Environmental Virtue Ethics: Value, Normativity, and Right Action
- Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous and Feminist Philosophies
- The Sacred, Reverence for Life, and Environmental Ethics in America
- Individual and Contributory Responsibility for Environmental Harm
- Justice on One Planet
- Sexual Politics in Environmental Ethics: Impacts, Causes, Alternatives
- Human Rights and the Environment
- Ecological Space: The Concept and Its Ethical Significance
- Risk and Precaution in Decision Making about Nature
- Citizenship and (Un)Sustainability: A Green Republican Perspective
- Future Generations in Environmental Ethics
- Sustainability as the Multigenerational Public Interest
- The Ethics of Environmental Pollution
- Population and Environment: The Impossible, the Impermissible, and the Imperative
- Ethical Energy Choices
- Narratives of Food, Agriculture, and the Environment
- Water Ethics: Toward Ecological Cooperation
- Anthropogenic Mass Extinction: The Science, the Ethics, and the Civics
- Philosophy of Technology and the Environment
- The Ethics of Ecosystem Management
- Mitigation: First Imperative of Environmental Ethics
- Ethics and Climate Adaptation
- Climate Diplomacy
- Geoengineering: Ethical Questions for Deliberate Climate Manipulators
- Environmental Conflict
- Environmental Ethics, Sustainability Science, and the Recovery of Pragmatism
- Sacrifice and the Possibilities for Environmental Action
- From Environmental Ethics to Environmental Action
- Index
