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Tables of Contents for The Environmental Crisis
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and Acknowledgements
vii
`Where the Danger is Grows also that which Saves'
1
16
Two Pictures
1
4
The Demon Descartes
5
4
Pulling the World in versus Pulling the Mind Out: Humanism and Environmentalism
9
6
The Danger and that which Saves
15
2
Intrinsic Value and Why (We Think) It's Needed
17
17
Human Based Value
17
5
Sentience Based Value
22
3
Environment Based Value
25
4
Concepts of Intrinsic Value
29
5
Objectivist Theories of Intrinsic Value
34
17
Objectivism about Value
34
3
Problems with Non-naturalistic Objectivism
37
2
Problems with Naturalistic Objectivism
39
3
Beyond the Naturalistic Fallacy?
42
9
Subjectivist Theories of Intrinsic Value
51
23
Elliot's Indexical Model of Intrinsic Value
52
2
Problems with Elliot's Theory
54
7
Callicott's Truncated Model of Intrinsic Value
61
4
Problems with Callicott's View
65
9
Radical Approaches to the Value of Nature
74
17
Environmental Value and Quantum Theory
75
3
Problems with Callicott's Theory
78
5
Environmental Value and Ecological Theory
83
2
Ecological Theory and the Subject/Object Distinction
85
3
From Ecological Theory to Environmental Value?
88
3
Against Humanism I: Externalism
91
10
Against the Spirit of our Age
91
2
Externalism
93
3
The Scope and Limits of Externalism
96
5
Against Humanism II: Evolution
101
18
The Concept of Evolutionary Cost
102
1
Evolutionary Cost and Environmental Manipulation: Beaver and Superbeaver
103
9
The Barking Dog Principle
112
2
Objections and Replies
114
4
The Danger as Natural History
118
1
Against Humanism III: Cognition
119
20
The Irrelevance of Exaptation
120
2
An Environmentalist Model of Perception
122
5
Extending the Model: Memory
127
4
Reasoning
131
5
The Danger and that which Saves (revisited)
136
3
Towards a Post-Humanist Theory of Value
139
22
Requirements of the Post-humanist Model
139
2
Valuing the Environment
141
3
Value in the Environment
144
9
A Post-humanist Theory of Value
153
5
The Environmental Turn?
158
3
Perspectives on the Environmental Crisis: Social Ecology, Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism
161
18
Social Ecology
162
5
Deep Ecology
167
5
Ecofeminism
172
2
The Web of Oppressions
174
5
Notes
179
10
Index
189