An emotocentric theory of interests

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-182

  Neill, Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics199820230     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. My usage of the term is not completely idiosyncratic. The way that I have defined intrinsic value echoes to a large extent C. I. Lewis' usage of this same term. See C. I. Lewis, An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1946).
2. Ibid., p. 392.
3. I thank Eugene Hargrove for bringing this point to my attention.
4. Kenneth Goodpaster, "On Being Morally Considerable," Journal of Philosophy 75 (1978): 320.
5. Ibid., p. 320.
6. Ibid., p. 319.
7. Joel Feinberg, "The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations," in Philosophy and Environmental Crisis, ed. William T. Blackstone (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1974), p. 52.
8. I thank an anonymous reviewer for suggesting that a discussion of Lawrence Johnson might be useful here. Unfortunately, I have no space to consider Johnson's view at this time.
9. Quoted in Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, second edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 278. Taken from Albert Schweitzer, Civilisation and Ethics, trans. C. T. Campion, 2d ed. (London: A. and C. Black, 1929), pp. 246-47.
10. Quoted in Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, second edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 278. Taken from Albert Schweitzer, Civilisation and Ethics, trans. C. T. Campion, 2d ed. (London: A. and C. Black, 1929), pp. 246-47.
11. I am grateful to Frederick Ferré for pointing out the answer to this question to me.
12. Gary E. Varner, "Schopenhauer's Thought and Environmental Ethics" (M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1983), pp. 79-80.
13. Paul W. Taylor, Respect for Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), p. 63.
14. Ibid., p. 61.
15. Ibid., p. 64.
16. Lewis, Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation, p. 377.
17. Ibid., p. 410.
18. Gary E. Varner, "Biological Functions and Biological Interests," Southern Journal of Philosophy 28, no. 2 (1990): 265.
19. Ibid., p. 266.
20. Ibid, pp. 265-66.
21. We should keep in mind, however, that we are only talking about Maude's interests at his point. There may be moral reasons why Maude ought not to smoke, at least in public, even if it is in her own best interest to do so.
22. Taylor, Respect for Nature, p. 121.
23. Ibid., pp. 122-23.
24. Ibid., p. 124.
25. Varner, "Biological Functions and Biological Interests," p. 256.
26. Quoted in Harley Cahen, "Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems," Environmental Ethics 10 (1988): 205. Taken from Larry Wright, "Explanation and Teleology," Philosophy of Science 29 (1972): 211.
27. Quoted in Harley Cahen, "Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems," Environmental Ethics 10 (1988): 205. Taken from Larry Wright, "Explanation and Teleology," Philosophy of Science 29 (1972): 211.
28. Feinberg, "The Right of Animals and Unborn Generations," pp. 49-50.
29. Robin Attfield, "The Good of Trees," Journal of Value Inquiry 15 (1981): 39.
30. Ibid.
31. Varner, "Biological Functions and Biological Interests," p. 266.
32. Ibid.
33. Lewis, Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation, p. 365.