Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental EducationUniversity Distinguished Research Professor J Baird Callicott, J. Baird Callicott, Fernando J. R. da Rocha On the eve of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Fernando J. R. da Rocha challenged environmental philosophers to suggest and develop effective ways in which universities might engender ecological literacy and environmental ethics. The result was a pre-conference held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, whose aim was to put the summit in philosophical perspective, influence its outcome, and chart a new course, linking environment and ethics through university education. This book is an outgrowth of the Porto Alegre conference, and the international environmental philosophers and educators represented here inaugurate a constructive dialogue that will continue well into the twenty-first century. Among the contributors to the volume are environmental philosophers Andrew Brennan, J. Baird Callicott, Fernando J. R. da Rocha, and Holmes Ralston, III, and education theorists Peter Madsen and John Lemons. In addition, the book introduces English-language readers to the work of French philosopher Catherine Larrere, Spanish philosopher Nicholas Sosa, and Brazil's radical former Secretary for the Environment and deep ecologist Jose Lutzenberger. |
Contents
Introduction Ethics University and Environment | 1 |
Science Technology Economics Ethics and Environment | 23 |
The Ethics of Dialogue and the Environment Solidarity as a Foundation for Environmental Ethics | 47 |
What Can Universities and Professional Schools Do to Save the Environment? | 71 |
Incontinence SelfDeception Shallow Analysis Mythmaking and Economic Rationality Their Bearing on Environmental Policy | 93 |
Ethics Politics Science and the Environment Concerning the Natural Contract | 115 |
Benevolent Symbiosis The Philosophy of Conservation Reconstructed | 139 |
Earth Ethics A Challenge to Liberal Education | 161 |
Afterword University Education in Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection | 193 |
The Porto Alegre Declaration | 221 |
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Notes on Contributors and Centers | 231 |
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