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Nature and Value

Author : Akeel Bilgrami
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550901
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Value written by Akeel Bilgrami and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. A distinguished list of scholars take up a broad range of questions regarding the relations between the human subject and its natural environment: when and how the concept of nature gave way to the concept of natural resources; the genealogy of the concept of nature through political economy, theology, and modern science; the idea of the Anthropocene; the prospects for green growth; and the deep alienation of human beings in the modern period from both nature and each other. By engaging with a wide range of scholarship, they ultimately converge on a common outlook that is both capacious and original. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world that seeks to reshape political and ethical ideals and practice with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time. Nature and Value features widely known scholars in a broad swath of disciplines, ranging from philosophy, politics, and political economy to geology, law, literature, and psychology. They include Jonathan Schell, David Bromwich, James Tully, Jedediah Purdy, Robert Pollin, Jan Zalasiewicz, Carol Rovane, Sanjay Reddy, Joanna Picciotto, Anthony Laden, Nikolas Kompridis, Bina Gogineni, Kyle Nichols, and the editor, Akeel Bilgrami.

The Nature of Value

Author : Nick Gogerty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231162448
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Value written by Nick Gogerty and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Value presents a theory of how economic value functions and how it drives growth, starting with tiny sparks of innovation and scaling all the way up to the full scope of the economy. Nick GogertyÕs exploration of value borrows from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, physics, sociology, and ethics, but most of all, it examines how evolutionÕs processes can help investors understand the economy and how investors can use this new understanding to improve their allocation decisions. Starting with a look at how innovations can help firms succeed, Gogerty looks at the economic niches in which firms compete and explores how firms can create defensive ÒmoatsÓ to enhance their chances of survival. He shows allocators how to adjust their actions for best performance and returns and what to look for when assessing company management, supporting his arguments with extensive data and years of practitioner experience from scientific, social, and economic disciplines. Intuitive illustrations are used to illuminate central concepts and ideas. GogertyÕs practical takeaways, couched in vivid explanations, will help investors of all backgrounds gain fresh insight into market mechanics.

Philosophy and the Natural Environment

Author : Robin Attfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521469031
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Natural Environment written by Robin Attfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the environment and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications.

The Nature and Value of Happiness

Author : Christine Vitrano
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 0813347270
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Nature and Value of Happiness written by Christine Vitrano and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, accessible exploration of both the historical and contemporary theories of happiness

The Intrinsic Value of Nature

Author : Leena Vilkka
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449510X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Intrinsic Value of Nature written by Leena Vilkka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is intrinsic value? What is the origin of value? Are people always superior to nature? This book is a philosophical analysis of the human relationship to the non-human world. It is a pioneering study of the philosophy of nature-conservation in relation to the discussion of intrinsic value. Vilkka develops a naturalistic or naturocentric theory of value that is based on ethical extensionism and pluralism. Vilkka analyzes natural values and environmental attitudes: zoocentrism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism. This book forms a taxonomy for nature having intrinsic value. The theory of intrinsic value is based on naturocentric and naturogenic values. The book questions the thesis of weak anthropocentrism that denies the existence of naturogenic values. In Vilkka's theory, animals and nature are the origin of value. She defends the existence of zoogenic and biogenic values in the non-human world and discusses the possibility of ecogenic value, nature as a whole having value independent of human or animal minds. Vilkka analyzes the goodness and rights of nature, the problem of priorities, and ecological humanism. A naturocentric recommendation is that the well-being of animals and nature should have priority over human values at least in some real decision contexts. Ecological humanism recommends an attitude of respect for people, animals, and nature. The book includes an extensive glossary, index, and bibliography.

The Nature of Intrinsic Value

Author : Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742512630
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Intrinsic Value written by Michael J. Zimmerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of ethics lies the concept of intrinsic value. It is at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, and acts rightly or wrongly. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: what sort of thing has it, and how it is measured or quantified.

Nature and the Marketplace

Author : G. M. Heal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nature and the Marketplace written by G. M. Heal and published by . This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost. Nature and the Marketplace examines the controversial proposition that markets should be designed to capture the value of those services. Written by an economist with a background in business, it evaluates the real prospects for various of nature's marketable services to “turn profits” at levels that exceed the profits expected from alternative, ecologically destructive, business activities. The author: describes the infrastructure that natural systems provide, how we depend on it, and how we are affecting it explains the market mechanism and how it can lead to more efficient resource use looks at key economic activities -- such as ecotourism, bioprospecting, and carbon sequestration -- where market forces can provide incentives for conservation examines policy options other than the market, such as pollution credits and mitigation banking considers the issue of sustainability and equity between generations . Nature and the Marketplace presents an accessible introduction to the concept of ecosystem services and the economics of the environment. It offers a clear assessment of how market approaches can be used to protect the environment, and illustrates that with a number of cases in which the value of ecosystems has actually been captured by markets. The book offers a straightforward business economic analysis of conservation issues, eschewing romantic notions about ecosystem preservation in favor of real-world economic solutions. It will be an eye-opening work for professionals, students, and scholars in conservation biology, ecology, environmental economics, environmental policy, and related fields.

The Nature and Value of Knowledge

Author : Duncan Pritchard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615137
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Nature and Value of Knowledge written by Duncan Pritchard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises three distinct investigations into the relationship between the nature and the value of knowledge. Each is written by one of the authors in consultation with the other two. 'Knowledge and Understanding' (by Duncan Pritchard) critically examines virtue-theoretic responses to the problem of the value of knowledge, and argues that the finally valuable cognitive state is not knowledge but understanding. 'Knowledge and Recognition' (by Alan Millar) develops an account of knowledge in which the idea of a recognitional ability plays a prominent role, and argues that this account enables us better to understand knowledge and its value. 'Knowledge and Action' (by Adrian Haddock) argues for an account of knowledge and justification which explains why knowledge is valuable, and enables us to make sense of the knowledge we have of our intentional actions.

The Nature of Aesthetic Value

Author : Hugo A. Meynell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349079243
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Aesthetic Value written by Hugo A. Meynell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Is Nature Ever Evil?

Author : Willem B. Drees
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415290600
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Is Nature Ever Evil? written by Willem B. Drees and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Nature Ever Evil?, considers the different ways in which reality is understood between the disciplines of ethics, religion and science focusing on the ethical evaluation of nature itself.

What's So Good About Biodiversity?

Author : Donald S. Maier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400739915
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book What's So Good About Biodiversity? written by Donald S. Maier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980's. However, this book is entirely unique in its treatment of the topic. It is unique in its meticulously crafted, scientifically informed, philosophical examination of the norms and values that are at the heart of discussions about biodiversity. And it is unique in its point of view, which is the first to comprehensively challenge prevailing views about biodiversity and its value. According to those dominant views, biodiversity is an extremely good thing – so good that it has become the emblem of natural value. The book's broader purpose is to use biodiversity as a lens through which to view the nature of natural value. It first examines, on their own terms, the arguments for why biodiversity is supposed to be a good thing. This discussion cuts a very broad and detailed swath through the scientific, economic, and environmental literature. It finds all these arguments to be seriously wanting. Worse, these arguments appear to have consequences that should dismay and perplex most environmentalists. The book then turns to a deeper analysis of these failures and suggests that they result from posing value questions from within a framework that is inappropriate for nature's value. It concludes with a novel suggestion for framing natural value. This new proposal avoids the pitfalls of the ones that prevail in the promotion of biodiversity. And it exposes the goals of conservation biology, restoration biology, and the world's largest conservation organizations as badly ill-conceived.

Beauty and Other Forms of Value

Author : Samuel Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and Other Forms of Value written by Samuel Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virtue, Rules, and Justice

Author : Thomas E. Hill Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199692009
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Virtue, Rules, and Justice written by Thomas E. Hill Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas E. Hill, Jr., interprets and extends Kant's moral theory in a series of essays that highlight its relevance to contemporary ethics. He introduces the major themes of Kantian ethics and explores its practical application to questions about revolution, prison reform, and forcible interventions in other countries for humanitarian purposes.

The Nature of Human Values

Author : Milton Rokeach
Publisher : New York : Free Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Human Values written by Milton Rokeach and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton Rokeach's book The Nature of Human Values (1973), and the Rokeach Value Survey, which the book served as the test manual for, occupied the final years of his career. In it, he posited that a relatively few "terminal human values" are the internal reference points that all people use to formulate attitudes and opinions, and that by measuring the "relative ranking" of these values one could predict a wide variety of behavior, including political affiliation and religious belief. This theory led to a series of experiments in which changes in values led to measurable changes in opinion for an entire small city in the state of Washington.

Ethics and the Environment

Author : Dale Jamieson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139467883
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and the Environment written by Dale Jamieson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. Topics discussed include the environment as an ethical question, human morality, meta-ethics, normative ethics, humans and other animals, the value of nature, and nature's future. The discussion is accessible and richly illustrated with examples. The book will be valuable for students taking courses in environmental philosophy, and also for a wider audience in courses in ethics, practical ethics, and environmental studies. It will also appeal to general readers who want a reliable and sophisticated introduction to the field.

Reasoning

Author : Magdalena Balcerak Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019879147X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Reasoning written by Magdalena Balcerak Jackson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical topic in its own right. Is reasoning a distinctive kind of mental process? If so, what is its nature? How does reasoning differ from merely freely associating thoughts? What is the relationship between reasoning about what to believe and reasoning about how to act? Is reasoning itself something you do, or something that happens to you? And what is the value of reasoning? Are there rules for good or correct reasoning and, if so, what are they like? Does good reasoning always lead to justified belief or rational action? Is there more than one way to reason correctly from your evidence? This volume comprises twelve new essays by leading researchers in the philosophy of reasoning that together address these questions and many more, and explore the connections between them.

Reason in Nature

Author : Matthew Boyle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241045
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Reason in Nature written by Matthew Boyle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the dominant view of reductive naturalism, John McDowell argues that human life should be seen as transformed by reason so that human minds, while not supernatural, are sui generis. This collection assembles eleven critical essays that highlight the enduring significance and wide ramifications of McDowell’s unorthodox position.