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The Ethics of Species
An Introduction
Ronald L. Sandler
Northeastern University, Boston
About the Book
We are causing species to go extinct at extraordinary rates,
altering existing species in unprecedented ways, and creating entirely new species. More than ever before, we require
an ethic of species to guide our interactions with them. In
this book, Ronald L. Sandler examines the value of species and the ethical significance of species boundaries, and
discusses what these mean for species preservation in the
light of global climate change, species engineering and human enhancement. He argues that species possess several
varieties of value, but they are not sacred. It is sometimes
permissible to alter species, let them go extinct (even when
we are a cause of the extinction) and invent new ones.
Philosophically rigorous, accessible and illustrated with
examples drawn from contemporary science, this book
will be of interest to students of philosophy, bioethics, environmental ethics and conservation biology.
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Key Features
• Connects philosophical questions about the value of species with cutting edge applied issues in genetic modification, climate change, human enhancement and artificial
life
• The text is concise and written to be accessible to students
and to non-philosophers/ethicists, such as those working
in conservation biology and in synthetic genomics
• Includes many examples throughout the text to ground
the discussions and provide illustration
Contents
Available from October 2012 | 245 pages
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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The value of species; 3. The
conservation biology dilemma; 4. Assisted colonization;
5. Shifting goals and changing strategies; 6. The (in)significance of species boundaries; 7. Homo sapiens in particular; 8. Artifactual species; 9. Conclusion.
Series: Cambridge Applied Ethics