1st Edition

Moral Theory and Climate Change Ethical Perspectives on a Warming Planet

By Dale E. Miller, Ben Eggleston Copyright 2020
274 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time. Ethical theories help us think clearly and more fully about important moral and political issues. And yet, to date, there have been no books that have brought together a broad range of ethical theories to apply them systematically to the problems of climate change. This volume fills that deep need. Two... Read more

1. Introduction  Dale E. Miller

2. Modern Climate Change: A Symptom of a Single-Species High-Energy Pulse  Hans-Peter Plag

3. Ethical Challenges Posed by Climate Change: An Overview  Madison Powers

4. Procreation, Carbon Tax, and Poverty: An Act-Consequentialist Climate-Change Agenda  Ben Eggleston

5. The Rule-Consequentialist Response to Climate Change  Dale E. Miller

6. Kant and Climate Change: A Territorial Rights Approach  Alice Pinheiro Walla

7. Contractualism and Climate Change  Paul Clements

8. Contractarianism and Climate Change  Michael Moehler

9. Natural Law Theory and Climate Change  Colleen McCluskey

10. Virtue Ethics and Climate Change  Sophie Grace Chappell

11. From Caring to Counter-Consumption: Feminist Moral Perspectives on Consumerism and Climate Change  Regina Cochrane

12. Pragmatist Ethics and Climate Change  Steven Fesmire

13. Phenomenology and the Ethics of Difference: Levinas, Responsibility, and Climate Change  William Edelglass

Biography

Dale E. Miller is a Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University and the editor-in-chief of Utilitas . He is the author of J. S. Mill: Moral, Social and Political Thought (2010) and he is a co-editor of Rules, Morality, and Consequences (2000); John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011); The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (2014); and A Companion to Mill (2017).

Ben Eggleston is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. He is the editor of Utilitarianism: With Related Remarks from Mill’s Other Writings, by John Stuart Mill (2017), and a co-editor of John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (2014). His research interests include normative ethics, rational choice theory, and philosophy of law.