Nature, Value, Duty

- Introduction: A Philosopher Gone Wild: Holmes Rolston, III and Environmental Philosophy; W. Ouderkirk, C. Preston

1. Rolston's Theory of Value; K. McShane

2. Biotic and Abiotic Nature: How Radical is Rolston's Environmental Philosophy?; K. Lee

3. Refining Rolston: A Natural Ontological Attitude Towards Natural Value; C. Preston

4. In Rolston's Footsteps: Human Emotions and Values in Nature; M. Wynn

5. Religion in Rolston's Environmental Ethics; N. Hettinger

6. Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: Holmes Rolston's Ecological Theology and Theodicy; L. Sideris

7. "We see beauty now where we could not see it before": Rolston's Aesthetics of Nature; A. Carlson

8. Rolston on Objective and Subjective Beauty in Nature; E. Hargrove

9. Words Gone Wild: Language in Rolston's Philosophy of Nature; B. Hausauer

10. Caring for Nature: An Ecofeminist's View of Rolston on Eating, Hunting, and Genetics; V. Davion

11. Rethinking Animal Ethics in Appropriate Context: How Rolston's Work Can Help; C.Palmer

12. Nature Diminished or Nature Managed: Applying Rolston's Environmental Ethics in National Parks; J. Lemons

13. Rolston on Urban Environments; A. Light, J. Shepard

14. Living on Earth: Dialogue and Dialectic with my Critics; H. Rolston, III

From the reviews:

"This is a collection of thirteen original essays about the environmental philosophy of Holmes Rolston, III, with a fourteenth chapter by Rolston in response. ... any new work that discusses his philosophy will be of interest to anyone connected to the subject. ... Any student of environmental philosophy will find the book a pleasure to read-a delightful immersion into the thought of Rolston. ... this volume is an excellent contribution to environmental philosophy, and should be read and discussed by everyone in the field." (Eric Katz, Environmental Ethics, Vol. 30, 2008)

"This volume of essays authored by luminaries and interesting new thinkers in the fields of applied and environmental ethics ... . Each essay is a rigorous, occasionally jargon-filled, engagement with Rolston's thinking. ... he perceived environmental ethics as a forum where voices from philosophy could converse with scientists, park rangers, organizers, and other non-philosophers. ... his most attentive audience, those who read and think about his work, is composed of philosophers and ethicists." (Christopher C. Robinson, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 21, 2008)