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Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education Hardcover - 1996

by J. Baird Callicott (Editor); Fernando J. Da Rocha (Editor)

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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 preconference 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.

Details

  • Title Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education
  • Author J. Baird Callicott (Editor); Fernando J. Da Rocha (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 247
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date August 1996
  • ISBN 9780791430538 / 0791430537
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-42277
  • Dewey Decimal Code 179.1

About the author

J. Baird Callicott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas and the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point. Among his many books are In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy and (with Roger T. Ames) Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, both published by SUNY Press.

Fernando J. R. da Rochais Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.

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