Overview
- Provides an essential starting point for any researcher in the field
- Gives a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of climate change
- Examines the scientific accounts of climate change as well as its causes
Part of the book series: Handbooks in Philosophy (HP)
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About this book
This Handbook offers a broad yet unified treatment of many philosophical issues connected with climate change, ranging from foundational puzzles to detailed applications. It extends to many branches of philosophy that are relevant to the understanding of the premises and implications of the impacts of climate change on human and nonhuman life on Earth. More specifically, the handbook examines the scientific accounts of climate change as well as its causes. It explores the tools offered by social sciences and humanities to study the societal premises and impacts of climate change as well as delving deeper into the ethical and political issues connected with and resulting from climate change. By doing so, it puts it all in an ecological and historical context. In addition, the book offers solutions to some important philosophical puzzles and problems, and indicates paths of interaction between philosophy and other disciplines.
Keywords
- Philosophy of Climate Change
- Philosophical Issues of Climate Science
- Anthropogenic Drivers of Climate Change
- Accounting for Past and Future Climate Changes
- Societal Impacts of Climate Change
- Economics of Climate Change
- Climate Change and Legal Theory
- Climate Change and Political Science
- Climate Change and History
- Climate Change and Cultural Geography
- Climate Change and Semiotics
- Climate Change, Post-Humanism and Critical Animal Studies
- Climate Change and Ethics
- Climate Change and Deontology
- Climate Change and Population Ethics
- Climate Change and Environmental Ethics
- Climate Change and Business Ethics
- Climate Change and the Ethics of Technology
- Climate Change and the Ethics of Food and Agriculture
- The Ethics of Geoengineering
Table of contents (65 entries)
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Introduction
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Climate Change, Science, and Philosophy
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Climate Change, Social Sciences, and Philosophy
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gianfranco Pellegrino is an Associate Professor at LUISS Guido Carli Rome, where he teaches Political Philosophy. His interests are in the history of political thought (mainly Jeremy Bentham and Henry Sidgwick), distributive justice theories, migration, and environmental ethics. He wrote on global justice, the ethics of climate change and the Anthropocene. Among his publications: “Sidgwick and the Many Guises of the Good”, Philosophical Explorations, 2021; “Robust Responsibility for Climate Harms”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2018, “Climate Refugees: A Case for Protection”, in G. Pellegrino e M. Di Paola, eds, Canned Heat. Theoretical and Practical Challenges of Global Climate Change, London/Delhi: Routledge, 2014.
Marcello Di Paola is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo. He works in environmental philosophy, particularly climate change, the Anthropocene, and the philosophy of plants. He writes on ethics, aesthetics, political theory, and the history of philosophy. Among his publications are Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment. Gardens of the Anthropocene (Springer, 2017) and the co-edited volume Plant Ethics: Concepts and Applications (Routledge, 2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change
Editors: Gianfranco Pellegrino, Marcello Di Paola
Series Title: Handbooks in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07002-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07001-3Published: 25 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07002-0Published: 24 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-4361
Series E-ISSN: 2524-437X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 1314
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Nature, Climate Change, Environment Studies, Political Philosophy, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Environmental Economics