The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics: The Virtuous Epistemic Circle (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)

Donato Bergandi (editor)

ISBN 10: 9400750668 / ISBN 13: 9789400750661

Published by Springer, 2013

About this Item

Hardcover, no dust jacket (likely as issued). Book condition is Near Fine. There is some widening in the gutter on the title page where the book naturally opens to. Otherwise, binding tight and feels a bit stiff. Hinges tight. Pages are bright, clean, and clear of writing, markings, highlighting, etc. Hinges tight. Hardcover boards have some dings along edges. Board corners and top/bottom of spine bumped and rubbed. Cover has light surface scratching/scuffing from normal shelfwear and use. Depression in spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics: The Virtuous Epistemic Circle (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9400750668
• ISBN 13: 9789400750661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental policy management has gradually but radically changed the relationship between these disciplines. Over the last decades in particular, there has emerged a need for an interconnecting meta-paradigm that integrates more strictly evolutionary studies, biodiversity studies and the ethical frameworks that are most appropriate for allowing a lasting co-evolution between natural and social systems. Today such a need is more than a mere luxury, it is an epistemological and practical necessity.​

From the Back Cover

Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental policy management has gradually but radically changed the relationship between these disciplines. Over the last decades in particular, there has emerged a need for an interconnecting meta-paradigm that integrates more strictly evolutionary studies, biodiversity studies and the ethical frameworks that are most appropriate for allowing a lasting co-evolution between natural and social systems. Today such a need is more than a mere luxury, it is an epistemological and practical necessity.

In short, the authors of this volume address some of the foundational themes that interconnect evolutionary studies, ecology and ethics. Here they have chosen to analyze a topic using one of these specific disciplines as a kind of epistemological platform with specific links to topics from one or both of the remaining disciplines.