By Christopher J. Preston
This is a set of up to date writings at the paintings of Holmes Rolston, III. The authors contributing to this quantity are a mix of senior students in environmental ethics and new voices in philosophy and in literature. jointly they supply a detailed evaluate of a number of the issues mentioned by means of Rolston. Rolston himself, in a close respond to each one of his critics on the finish of the quantity, finds the place a few of these criticisms sting him the most.
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