Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany (SUNY series on Religion and the Environment)
"The extension of ethics to the nonhuman, nonanimal is important, and ahead of its time. What a pleasure to experience this well-written, well-researched, interesting approach to applied comparative philosophy. Matthew Hall makes an outstanding contribution to a new and important field of study." --Christopher Key Chapple, author ofYoga and the Luminous: Patañjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom"Ever since the publication of Peter Singer'sAnimal Liberation, many readers have been waiting for the other shoe to fall: plant liberation. This book gives it to us. It will be the poster child for the plant liberation movement, if ever there is such a thing." --Loyal Rue, author ofEverybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution"This wide-ranging analysis is exactly what is needed to understand the complex character of contemporary human-Earth interactions. It is a significant contribution to our understanding of plants in the discourse on environmental concerns." --John Grim, cofounder of the Forum for Religion and Ecology, Yale University