Biodiversity

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 402-415

  Rolston, Holmes ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Animals; Biodiversity; Instrumental value; Species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948766210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751664.ch28     Document Type: Chapter

References (17)

1. Booth, William (1997) "Developers wish huge fly would buzz off," Washington Post, April 4, p. A1. [Unusual endangered fly in California troubles developers.]
2. Costanza, Robert, et al. (1997) "The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital," Nature 387, pp. 253-9. [A provocative estimate; nobody knows the dollar value, in large part because it is so high.]
3. Darwin, Charles (1968 [1872]) The Origin of Species (Baltimore: Penguin Books). [An original survey of biodiversity and its origins.]
4. Ehrlich, Paul and Ehrlich, Anne (1981) Extinction (New York: Random House). [Still one of the best general studies of extinction.]
5. Eldredge, Niles and Cracraft, Joel (1980) Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process (New York: Columbia University Press). [An analysis of species and speciation in evolutionary history.]
6. Feinberg, Joel (1974) "The rights of animals and unborn generations," in Philosophy and Environmental Crisis, ed. W. T. Blackstone (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press), pp. 43-68. [A well-known philosopher puzzled about environmental ethics, including endangered species.]
7. Hampshire, Stuart (1972) Morality and Pessimism (New York: Cambridge University Press). [Includes an account of the utilitarian view of species preservation.]
8. Kempton, Willett M., Boster, James S., and Hartley, Jennifer A. (1995) Environmental Values in American Culture (Cambridge, MA: MITPress). [Revealing survey, finding that many, even most, Americans value species intrinsically as well as instrumentally.]
9. Myers, Norman (1979) "Conserving our global stock," Environment 21, no. 9 (November) pp. 25-33. [Species as resources for human use.]
10. Rawls, John (1971) A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). [A justly celebrated theory of human justice, noting that duties to species require further development of ethics.]
11. Regan, Tom (1983) The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley CA: University of California Press). [The best analysis of animal rights, but rights do not extend to species.]
12. Rescher, Nicholas (1980) "Why save endangered species?" in Unpopular Essays on Technological Progress (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press), pp. 79-92. [Another philosopher troubled about the justification for saving species, other than for human uses.]
13. Rolston III, Holmes (1996) "Feeding people versus saving nature," in World Hunger and Morality, 2nd edn, ed. William Aiken and Hugh La Follette (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall), pp. 248-67. [Saving nature often coincides with the long-range interests of the poor, but sometimes the duty to save nature, especially species, overrides the duty to assist the poor.]
14. Simpson, G. G. (1961) Principles of Animal Taxonomy (New York, Columbia University Press). [Argues for the reality of species, found in nature, not made up by systematists.]
15. US Congress (1973) Endangered Species Act of 1973. 87 Stat. 884. Public Law 93-205. [The most famous public law protecting species and one of the most remarkable acts of the US Congress.]
16. Wilson, Edward O. (1992) The Diversity of Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). [Life on global scales and in all its evolutionary and ecological richness.]
17. Rolston III, Holmes (1988) "Life in jeopardy: duties to endangered species," in Environmental Ethics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press). [Expands the argument of this chapter.]