Environmental Skill: Motivation, Knowledge, and the Possibility of a Non-Romantic Environmental Ethics

Discussing the relations between moral motivation, knowledge, and modernity, this book criticizes modern and romantic thinking about "nature" based on abstract reasoning and detached sentiments. It shows how an environmental ethics centered on the concept of environmental skill opens up alternative ways of relating to our environment.

Author: Mark Coeckelbergh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/14/2018
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781138346758

About the Author

Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, UK. Previously he was Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology and affiliated to the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. His publications include Growing Moral Relations (2012), Human Being @ Risk (2013), and numerous publications in the area of ethics and technology, in particular ethics of robotics and ICTs. His research interests include philosophy of technology, environmental philosophy and moral philosophy.