Philosophy of Ecology - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0444516735 ISBN 13 : 9780444516732

Editeur : North-Holland, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: North-Holland
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0444516735
• ISBN 13: 9780444516732
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 444
• Éditeur: Brown Bryson, De Laplante Kevin, Peacock Kent
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italie