In nature's interests?
Subtitle: interests, animal rights, and environmental ethics
By: Gary E. Varner.
Series: Environmental ethics and science policy series; Environmental ethics and science policy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Environmental ethics.; Animal rights.; Environmentalists -- Attitude.; Philosophy of nature.
Description: This book is a carefully argued response to what author Gary Varner characterizes as "two dogmas of environmentalism": the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. He argues that every living organism has interests which ought, other things being equal, to be protected, but that some interests take priority over others.

Varner surveys problems facing attempts to develop a holistic environmental ethic, provides a careful analysis of the notion of desire and its scope in the animal kingdom, and improves upon available arguments for the claim that nonconscious organisms possess morally significant interests.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-150) and index.