Series Editor:
Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London, UK
Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Edited by
Bryson Brown
Kevin de Laplante
Kent Peacock
Description
The most pressing problems facing humanity today - over-population, energy shortages, climate change, soil erosion, species extinctions,
the risk of epidemic disease, the threat of warfare that could destroy all the hard-won gains of civilization, and even the recent fibrillations
of the stock market - are all ecological or have a large ecological component. in this volume philosophers turn their attention to understanding
the science of ecology and its huge implications for the human project.
To get the application of ecology to policy or
other practical concerns right, humanity needs a clear and disinterested philosophical understanding of ecology which can help identify
the practical lessons of science. Conversely, the urgent practical demands humanity faces today cannot help but direct scientific and
philosophical investigation toward the basis of those ecological challenges that threaten human survival. This book will help to fuel
the timely renaissance of interest in philosophy of ecology that is now occurring in the philosophical profession.
Included in series
Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
