Climate Change and Philosophy: Transformational Possibilities

Introduction; 1. Nature in the Active Voice, Val Plumwood (Australian National University, Australia); 2. Education at the End of Nature: Learning to Cope with Climate Change, Tim Luke (Virginia Tech, USA); 3. Cultural Transformation and Questions of Authenticity: Heidegger and Climate Change, Ruth Irwin (University of Auckland, New Zealand); 4. Education Against Climate Change: Information and Technological Focus Are Not Enough, Edgar Gonzalez Gaudiano (Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico); 5. Global Climate Change, Adaptation and Abatement in a Context of Risk and Vulnerability: The Challenges Facing Educational Thinking and Research, Leslie LeGrange (Stellenbosch University, South Africa); 6. Transforming Worldviews to Cope with a Changing Climate, Leo Elshof (Acadia University, Canada); 7. Climate Change, Civil Progress, and Rational Evolution, Martin Schonfeld (University of South Florida, USA); 8. Mediated Responsibilities, Global Warming and the Scope of Ethics, Robin Attfield (Cardiff University, UK); 9. Transforming Attitudes to Environmental Law in Light of Climate Change, Murray Sheard (Director of Professional Integrity Training, Tiri, UK); 10. Gender and Climate Change: An Environmental Justice Perspective, Patricia Glazebrook (Dalhousie University, Canada); Bibliography; Index.

A hugely important collection of essays examining the significance of philosophical inquiry in relation to the issue of climate change.

"This thought-provoking book is about the transformation of the modern, human world in the face of climate change. The authors take the interconnections between our changing climate, the shifting realities of modernity and philosophy itself very seriously, and if it were needed this book is proof that philosophy can make a contribution to humanity's most important conversation." - James Garvey, Secretary of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and author of The Ethics of Climate Change