Beschreibung:
Dale E. Miller is a Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University and the editor-in-chief of Utilitas . He is the author of J. S. Mill: Moral, Social and Political Thought (2010) and he is a co-editor of Rules, Morality, and Consequences (2000); John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011); The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (2014); and A Companion to Mill (2017).
In this volume, nine leading ethicists in nine separate chapters each present a major ethical theory and discuss the implications of that theory for our responses to a rapidly warming planet.
1. Introduction 2. Modern Climate Change: A Symptom of a Single-Species High-Energy Pulse 3. Ethical Challenges Posed by Climate Change: An Overview 4. Procreation, Carbon Tax, and Poverty: An Act-Consequentialist Climate-Change Agenda 5. The Rule-Consequentialist Response to Climate Change 6. Kant and Climate Change: A Territorial Rights Approach 7. Contractualism and Climate Change 8. Contractarianism and Climate Change 9. Natural Law Theory and Climate Change 10. Virtue Ethics and Climate Change 11. From Caring to Counter-Consumption: Feminist Moral Perspectives on Consumerism and Climate Change 12. Pragmatist Ethics and Climate Change 13. Phenomenology and the Ethics of Difference: Levinas, Responsibility, and Climate Change