Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction Book

	Preface	xi
	Acknowledgments	xv
1	Introduction	1
1.1	A Focus on Biodiversity	7
1.2	The Structure of the Book	9
1.3	Three Flawed Arguments	13
2	Concern for the Environment	21
2.1	The Myth of Lost Futures	26
2.2	The Myth of the Golden Age	32
2.3	Wilderness	37
3	Intrinsic Values and Biocentrism	45
3.1	Adequacy Conditions for a Conservationist Ethic	47
3.2	Two Concepts of Intrinsic Value	52
3.3	Arguments for Intrinsic Value	58
3.4	Biocentrism and Deep Ecology	68
3.5	Animal Welfare	71
4	Tempered Anthropocentrism	75
4.1	Demand Values	77
4.2	Transformative Values	81
4.3	Obligations of Conservation	87
4.4	Wilderness and Aesthetic Appreciation	90
4.5	The Boundary Problem	95
4.6	The Directionality Problem	96
4.7	Solutions	98
4.8	Adequacy Tests	103
5	Problems of Ecology	106
5.1	Ecological Models	109
5.2	New Directions	127
5.3	Extinction	132
6	The Consensus View of Conservation Biology	145
6.1	Adaptive Management	151
6.2	The Place Prioritization Problem	159
6.3	The Surrogacy Problem	168
6.4	The Viability Problem	173
6.5	Defining "Biodiversity"	178
7	Incommensurability and uncertainty	185
7.1	Types of Values	187
7.2	Multiple Criterion Synchronization	196
7.3	The Context of Biodiversity	203
7.4	Coping with Uncertainty	206
7.5	Probabilistic Place Prioritization	210
7.6	A Bayesian Future?	212
8	In Conclusion: Issues for the Future	218
8.1	The Value of Biodiversity	219
8.2	The Science of Biodiversity Conservation	223
	References	231
	Index	251