Title: Environmental ethics and process thinking /
Authors: Palmer, Clare, 1967-
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Whitehead, Alfred North,; Environmental ethics.; Deep ecology.; Thought and thinking; Process theology.
Abstract: Here Palmer challenges the belief that the process thinking of writers like A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne has offered an unambiguously positive contribution to environmental ethics. She compares process ethics to a variety of other forms.
Contents: 1. Process Thinking, the Creation of Value, and Approaches to Ethics -- 2. Process Thinking, Individualist Consequentialism, and Animals -- 3. Process Thinking and Individualist Deontological Environmental Ethics -- 4. Process Thinking and Collectivist Environmental Ethics -- 5. Whitehead's Philosophy and the Deep Ecology Movement.