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As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1981–1983, [1] Baxter commanded wide public attention when in 1982 he settled a seven-year-old case against AT&T with by far the largest breakup in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, splitting AT&T up into seven regional phone companies.
A list of environmental philosophers, ordered alphabetically, which includes living or recently deceased individuals who have published in the field of environmental ethics/philosophy (most of whom have PhDs in Philosophy, and are employed as philosophy professors), and those who are commonly regarded as precursors to the field.
Kristin Shrader-Frechette wrote that Taylor broke new grounds in environmental ethics with his concepts of biocentric outlook and inherent worth and suggested that he developed "the most philosophically sophisticated theory of environmental ethics that has yet appeared". However, she noted various flaws with his theory. [1]
Environmental aesthetics, design and restoration have emerged as important intersecting disciplines that keep shifting the boundaries of environmental thought, as have the science of climate change and biodiversity and the ethical, political and epistemological questions they raise.
Furthermore, an environmental ethical theory based on the rights of marine animals in those ecosystems, would create a protection against this type of intervention. Environmental deontologists such as Paul W. Taylor , for example, have argued for a Kantian approach to issues of this kind.
William Baxter (Nova Scotia politician) (1760–1832), physician and politician in Nova Scotia; William Edward Baxter (1825–1890), British politician and traveller; William Duncan Baxter (1868–1960), mayor of Cape Town, South Africa, 1907–1908; William Baxter (Scottish politician) (1911–1979), British Labour Party politician, MP 1959–1974
A main concern in environmental ethics is anthropogenically induced mass extinction within the biosphere. The attempt to interpret it non-anthropocentrically is vital to the foundations of environmental ethics. [28] Paleontology, for example, details mass extinction as pivotal and a precursor to major radiations. Those with non-anthropocentric ...
[3] William D. Grey believes that developing a non-anthropocentric set of values is "a hopeless quest". He seeks an improved "shallow" view. [ 30 ] Deep ecologists point out, however, that "shallow ecology" (resource management conservation) is counter-productive, since it serves mainly to support capitalism, the means through which industrial ...