Humans in nature : the world as we find it and the world as we create it / Gregory E. Kaebnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaebnick, Gregory E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of nature.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages)

Other Title:

World as we find it and the world as we create it

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contemporary debates over issues as wide-ranging as the protection of wildernesses and endangered species, the spread of genetically modified organisms, the emergence of synthetic biology, and the advance of human enhancement, all of which seem to spin into deeper and more baffling questions with every change in the news cycle, often circle back to the same fundamental question: should there be limits to the human alteration of the natural world? A growing number of people view the human capacity to alter natural states of affairs -- from formerly wild spaces and things around us to crops and

Contents:

The nature of Nature: what to ask of a concept

Perception of the soul: the nature of morality

The call of the wild: ideals and obligations

Space for nature : intrinsic moral values in public policy

Nature naturalized: wilderness and wildlife

Nature on the farm: genetically modified plants and animals

Nature in the factory: synthetic biology

Nature in us: humanism and transhumanism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-934724-7

0-19-934723-9

0-19-934722-0

OCLC:

863822874