Overview
- Addresses the foundational themes that interconnect evolutionary studies, ecology and ethics
- Sets out foundational events in the history of evolutionary biology, ecology and environmental ethics
- First necessary step towards a clarification of their major epistemological orientations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental policy management has gradually but radically changed the relationship between these disciplines. Over the last decades in particular, there has emerged a need for an interconnecting meta-paradigm that integrates more strictly evolutionary studies, biodiversity studies and the ethical frameworks that are most appropriate for allowing a lasting co-evolution between natural and social systems. Today such a need is more than a mere luxury, it is an epistemological and practical necessity.
Reviews
“Donato Bergandi … has produced important works in philosophy of ecology and environmental ethics … . This book is a very well organized one, covering various scientific and philosophical issues and debates. It is a highly recommended reading for a wide audience, including ecologists, evolutionary biologists and philosophers interested in environmental issues. … it can also be useful in introductory courses in environmental ethics as well as in history and philosophy of ecology/evolution courses.” (Nei de Freitas Nunes-Neto, Science & Education, Vol. 24, June, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics
Book Subtitle: The Virtuous Epistemic Circle
Editors: Donato Bergandi
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5067-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5066-1Published: 05 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9256-2Published: 01 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5067-8Published: 06 January 2013
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 179
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Ethics