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This book, though aimed at a law audience, contains a philosophically sophisticated stance on the topic of animal rights. Baxter maintains that non-human animals have no moral consideration on their own. Any moral consideration of animals is in relation to humans. Moral consideration is a uniquely human affair.
William Baxter (scholar) (1650–1723), Welsh scholar; William Baxter (Oxford Botanic Garden curator) (1787–1871), Scots botanist, author of British Phaenogamous Botany; William Baxter (botanist) (1787–c. 1836), English botanist who collected in Australia; William Baxter (law professor) (1929–1998), American law professor
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.
Environmental virtue ethicists take inspiration from a variety of schools of virtue ethics and from diverse backgrounds in environmental ethics. Nevertheless, there are three general approaches to identifying virtues and vices within EVE. First, the "virtue theory approach," which attempts to build an environmental virtue ethics from the ground up.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Environmental ethics books (3 P) ... Relationship between animal ethics and environmental ethics; Rights of nature in Ecuador; S.
Ethics is the direct continuation of the International Journal of Ethics, established in October 1890.Its first volume included contributions by many leading moral philosophers, including the pragmatists John Dewey and William James, idealists Bernard Bosanquet, and Josiah Royce, and the utilitarian Henry Sidgwick.
Books about ethics, a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
William Edward Baxter was the grandson of William Baxter, the founder of the Baxter Brothers textile business. His uncle, Sir David Baxter, was a noted businessman and philanthropist and his aunt, Mary Ann Baxter was the co-founder of University College, Dundee. [1] Baxter caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1885