Philosophical foundations for the practices of ecology
By: William Reiners, Jeffrey Lockwood.
Contributors: Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan, 1960-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521115698; 9780521133036
Subjects: Ecology -- Philosophy; Perspective (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual confusion in ecology and its causes; 3. Causes of ecology's conceptual confusion; 4. Finding ourselves in philosophical terms; 5. Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - an introduction; 6. Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - ontology; 7. Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - metaphysics; 8. Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - epistemology; 9. Ecological pragmatism and constrained perspectivism - a summary; 10. The practice of constrained perspectivism in ecology; 11. What constrained perspectivism offers to the teaching of ecology; 12. The heroic handy man and the future of ecology; Glossary of philosophical terms; Index.