Sentientism

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 192-203

  Varner, Gary ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal kingdom; Ecosystems; Sentientism; Slavery; Speciesism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948751252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751664.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

References (16)

1. Callicott, J. Baird (1980) "Animal liberation: a triangular affair," Environmental Ethics 2, pp. 311-38. [The classic statement of why environmental ethics and animal rights views are incompatible.]
2. Callicott, J. Baird (1989) "Animal liberation and environmental ethics: backtogether again," in In Defense of the Land Ethic, J. Baird Callicott (Albany: State University of New York Press), pp. 49-59. [Attempts to show how some of the concerns of animal welfarists can be accommodated by Leopold's land ethic.]
3. Feinberg, Joel (1974) "The rights of animals and unborn generations," in Philosophy and Environmental Crisis, ed. William Blackstone, Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press), pp. 43-68. [A classic analysis of the relationship between rights and conscious desires.]
4. Goodpaster, Kenneth (1979) "From egoism to environmentalism," in Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century, ed. Kenneth Goodpaster and Kenneth Sayre (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press), pp. 21-35. [Questions the adequacy of any environmental ethic which merely extends traditional conceptions of moral standing based on characteristics which make our own conscious lives seem valuable to us.]
5. Johnson, Edward (1981) "Animal liberation versus the land ethic," Environmental Ethics 3, pp. 265-73. [An early rejoinder to Callicott's widely discussed 1980 essay, which raises most of the problems others saw in it.]
6. Leopold, Aldo (1949) A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There, illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz (New York: Oxford University Press). [A landmark work in environmental philosophy, written from a non-sentientist perspective.]
7. Regan, Tom (1981) "The nature and possibility of an environmental ethic," Environmental Ethics 3, pp. 19-34. [Here Regan defined a truly environmental ethic in terms of extending moral standing to non-conscious entities and sounded more sanguine about the prospects for developing one than he does in his 1983 book.]
8. Regan, Tom (1983) The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press). [A rigorous analysis of the logic of rights claims and the consequences of extending moral rights to animals.]
9. Rodman, John (1977) "The liberation of nature?" Inquiry 20, pp. 83-145. [A review of Singer 1975 and Stone 1974, which draws parallels between the two and questions whether extending traditional accounts of moral standing and rights is the way to develop an adequate environmental ethic.]
10. Routley, Richard (1973) "Is there a need for a new, an environmental ethic?" Proceedings of the XV World Congress of Philosophy, pp. 205-10. [The first essay on environmental ethics by a professional philosopher, this paper popularized the use of "last man" cases.]
11. Routley, Richard and Routley, Val (1980) "Human chauvinism and environmental ethics," in Environmental Philosophy, ed. Don Mannison, Michael McRobbie, and Richard Routley (Canberra: Australian National University), pp. 96-189. [This essay has never been reprinted in whole apart from in this relatively obscure anthology, but it provides a much more thorough working-out of themes touched on in Routley 1973.]
12. Sapontzis, Steve F. (1987) Morals, Reason, and Animals (Philadelphia: Temple University Press). [A comprehensive treatment of "animal rights" as an extension of common-sense thinking about ethics; chapter 13 argues that although predator elimination would indeed be a good thing, it is not practicable.]
13. Singer, Peter (1990 [1975]) Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (New York: Avon Books). [The most widely read book in the animal rights literature.]
14. Singer, Peter (1993 [1979]) Practical Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). [A more philosophically sophisticated treatment of the issues in Singer 1990 (1975).]
15. Stone, Christopher D. (1974) Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann). [An attempt to extend the individualistic rights paradigm to holistic natural entities; originally published in the University of Southern California Law Review 45 (1972), pp. 450-501.]
16. Varner, Gary E. (1998) In Nature's Interests? Interests, Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press). [Defends a non-sentientist account of interests, but also attacks the claim that anthropocentric and sentientist ethics are both antithetical to sound environmental policy.]