Abundance and Variety in Nature: Fact and Value

Mikkelson, Gregory M.

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“…The second option is to consider the intrinsic value of biological variety as something that might be valuable in itselfindependently of whether it is beneficial for humans or other lifeforms (Mikkelson, 2022). There are different versions of what this entails (see McShane, 2017).…”

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The ethics of species extinctions

Wienhues,

Baard,

Donoso

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Extinction

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This review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible philosophical grounds for Michael Soulé’s assertion that the untimely ‘extinction of populations and species is bad’. Illustrating such debates in environmental ethics, the guiding question for this review concerns why – or when – anthropogenic extinctions are bad or wrong, which also includes the question of when that might not be the case (i.e. which extinctions are even desirable). After providing an explanation of the disciplinary perspective taken (section “Introduction”), the concept of extinction and its history within that literature are introduced (section “Understanding extinction”). Then, in section “Why (or when) might anthropogenic extinctions be morally problematic?”, different reasons for why anthropogenic extinctions might be morally problematic are presented based on the loss of species’ value, harm to nonhuman individuals, the loss of valuable biological variety and duties to future generations. This section concludes by also considering cases where anthropogenic extinctions might be justified. Section “How to respond to extinctions?” then addresses a selection of topics concerning risks and de-extinction technologies. Finally, the section on “Extinction studies” introduces other viewpoints on the ethics of extinction from the extinction studies literature, followed by the “Conclusion”.

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Section: Leading To the Loss Of Valuable Biological Varietymentioning

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The ethics of species extinctions

Wienhues,

Baard,

Donoso

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Extinction

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A new worldview-methodological platform for the co-development of society and nature: Postholism

Myakinnikov

2023

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The aim of this study is to develop methodological tools for constructing an ecologised worldview, among which such categories as the single whole, substance, energy and information interpreted in a particular way are being considered. These categories are characterised by non-reductionism, achieved through a rethinking of the correlations between the categories of the whole, the single, the multiple and the part, while avoiding the absolutisation of the properties of each. The paper clarifies the ontological status of the concepts of substance, energy and information, as well as their relationship to the categories of the single, the whole, the sum of parts and the individual part within the framework of the methodologies of holism, merism and henology. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the author’s proposal of the methodological and worldview platform of “postholism”, with the author’s explication of the concept of the single whole serving as an approach-forming tool for this platform. The essence of this explication lies in considering any object as existing within the single, which encompasses and permeates all of its contents, down to the individual singularities that serve as parts of any whole within this single. Thus, singleness determines wholeness through its existence in each of the parts of this whole, acquiring specific forms of substance, energy and information. As a result, this worldview allows for the construction of a picture reflecting the relationships between humans and nature from the local to the global level.

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Abundance and Variety in Nature: Fact and Value

Cited by 2 publications

References 27 publications

The ethics of species extinctions

The ethics of species extinctions

A new worldview-methodological platform for the co-development of society and nature: Postholism

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