K:\Critical Notice\Critnote-Env-Eth-Published
Critical Notice of Published Articles in Environmental Ethics Holmes Rolston, III For the books Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World, Conserving Natural Value, and A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth see separate files. Van Rensselaer Potter (Bioscience, University of Wisconsin) in "Evolving Ethical Concepts" favorably cites, reviews, and quotes, "Is There an Ecological Ethic?" in BioScience, introducing a special issue on the environment, April, 1977, 27:251-253. He also cites "Philosophical Aspects of the Environmental Crisis." Nicholas Rescher (Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh) cites and quotes as "elegantly formulated" an argument used in "Is There an Ecological Ethic?"--"Why Save Endangered Species?" in Unpopular Essays on Technological Progress (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), pp. 79-92 and p. 112. William K. Frankena (Philosophy, University of Michigan) cites "Is There an Ecological Ethic?" as being "very helpful, perceptive, and stimulating" although he critiques it as being too radical. "Ethics and the Environment" (see next entry). Also in the Chinese translation in Zhexue Yicong (Philosophy Digest of Translation), (Journal of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Beijing, Issue No. 5 (Sept. 1994):5-10, citations passim. K. E. Goodpaster (Philosophy, Business, Harvard University) also cites this essay as being helpful, but criticizes it as being not radical enough. "From Egoism to Environmentalism." These two essays (Frankena and Goodpaster) are the opening essays in K. E. Goodpaster and K. M. Sayre, Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century (Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, 1979). Rolston is quoted and/or cited a dozen times in these two discussions.
[Show full text]