Value, Beauty, and Nature: The Philosophy of Organism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Environmental Ethics

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Unearthing the Process Roots of Environmental Ethics
	The Philosophy of Organism
	Whitehead’s Metaphysical System as a Foundation for Environmental Ethics
Chapter 1. In Defense of Systematic, Speculative Philosophy
	The Twentieth-Century Nadir of Metaphysics
	Recovering the Adventure of Ideas
Chapter 2. Value
	Categorizing a Whiteheadian Ethic
		Intrinsic Value
		Morality in the Making
		Moral Ideals
Chapter 3. Whitehead, Callicott, and Rolston
	Environmental Ethics’ Recalcitrant Problem
		Rolston: Values in and Duties to the Natural World
			Organisms, Machines, Teleology
			Organism-in-Environment
			Creativity
			Value
Chapter 4. Beauty
	The Process Reception and Rejection of Leopold
	Reality as Kalogenic
		Aesthetic Realism
		Peace
Chapter 5. Hierarchy
	Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and Hierarchy
	Hierarchy and the Chain of Being
	Value Hierarchy Thinking and the Logic of Domination
	Hierarchy without Anthroparchy
	Eating Animals and the Robbery of Life
Chapter 6. Individuals
	Substance, Event, and Individuality
	The Ontology of Social Insects
Chapter 7. Teleology and the Naturalistic Fallacy
	Peirce and Whitehead on Teleology
		Moore, Whitehead, and the Naturalistic Fallacy
			Moore and the Naturalistic Fallacy
			Whitehead, Value, and Naturalistic Metaphysics
Chapter 8. Environmental Pragmatism
	Environmental Pragmatism and the Policy Turn
		Has Environmental Ethics Been Ineffectual?
		The Convergence Hypothesis
		“Good” Environmental Policy
		Anti-Philosophical
		Environmental Pragmatism and Classical American Pragmatism
Chapter 9. From the Anthropocene to the Ecozoic
	The Anthropocene Discourse
		The Ecozoic Era
Notes
Bibliography
Index