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Environmental thought has a rich and extensive history. Philosopher Robin Attfield guides readers through the key developments and debates that have defined the field from ancient times to the present.

A major new introduction to ethics, designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students.

The book introduces environmental problems and environmental ethics and surveys theories of the sources of the problems.

This fully updated and expanded textbook looks at issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya ...

The second edition includes a new preface and introduction, as well as a bibliographic essay and an updated list of references incorporating relevant scholarship since the publication of the first edition.

Originally published in 1987 and re-issued in 2020 with a new Preface, this book presents and elaborates interrelated solutions to a number of problems in moral philosophy, from the location of intrinsic value and the nature of a worthwhile ...

Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for urgent action based on current harms, threats to future generations, and to the species with which we share the planet.

This book relates the value present in the natural world and in human creativity to an underlying purpose which it traces in creation.

This work defends an interrelated set of theses in value-theory, normative ethics and meta-ethics.