Can You Teach Environmental Philosophy Without Being an Environmentalist?

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" Can You Teach Environmental Philosophy Without Being an Environmentalist? "
Kevin de Laplante

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1086221
Doc. No	:	LA129850
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1568535042690763‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Kevin de Laplante
Title & Author	:	Can You Teach Environmental Philosophy Without Being an Environmentalist? [Article]\ Kevin de Laplante
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2004
Volume/ Issue Number	:	8/2-3
Page No	:	198–212
Abstract	:	"The orthodox conception of environmental philosophy is of an applied or practical philosophical discipline in the service of the ethical, social and political aims of the environmental movement. In this essay I show that there is a coherent alternative conception of the subject matter of environmental philosophy—what I call an "ecological" conception—that can be defined independently of environmentalist concerns. I argue that, as a framework for advancing both the theoretical and applied aims of environmental philosophy, the ecological conception of environmental philosophy has a number of advantages over the orthodox conception. I conclude with some remarks on the implications of adopting the ecological conception for teaching courses in environmental philosophy. The orthodox conception of environmental philosophy is of an applied or practical philosophical discipline in the service of the ethical, social and political aims of the environmental movement. In this essay I show that there is a coherent alternative conception of the subject matter of environmental philosophy—what I call an "ecological" conception—that can be defined independently of environmentalist concerns. I argue that, as a framework for advancing both the theoretical and applied aims of environmental philosophy, the ecological conception of environmental philosophy has a number of advantages over the orthodox conception. I conclude with some remarks on the implications of adopting the ecological conception for teaching courses in environmental philosophy."
Descriptor	:	ECOLOGY
Descriptor	:	ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Descriptor	:	ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
Descriptor	:	ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
Descriptor	:	TEACHING
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1568535042690763‬