Ethics

Ethics begins from wanting to live. If not, it is impossible to continue. Cf. Albert Camus on suicide.

Cf. topics on

Relevant terms and bounds:

anthropocentrism
biocentrism
ecocentrism
zoocentrism
cosmocentrism 1
egocentrism

Needs

There is an acute need to rebuild ethics to match the updated context of the world.

Cf. earth-theory

Key Topics

Dator, James Allen. “Do Rocks Have Rights?” In Social Foundations of Human Space Exploration, edited by James Allen Dator, 79–85. Boston: Springer, 2012.

procedural ethics (today ethics often refers to an engagement in the proper process rather than understanding the ultimate good)
deliberative approach to justice

More-than-Human Ethics

On ethics involving nonhuman computational entities, this as a report from a workshop.

Reddy, Anuradha, Iohanna Nicenboim, James Pierce, and Elisa Giaccardi. ‘Encountering Ethics Through Design: A Workshop with Nonhuman Participants’. AI and Society 36, no. 3 (2021): 853–61. https://doi.org/10/gh4m9c.

Nonhuman Value

For a review in application to nonhuman agents, see:

Owe, Andrea, Seth D. Baum, and Mark Coeckelbergh. ‘Nonhuman Value: A Survey of the Intrinsic Valuation of Natural and Artificial Nonhuman Entities’. Science and Engineering Ethics 28, no. 5 (2022): 38. https://doi.org/10/gqqxxc.

Biocentrism

Basl, John. The Death of the Ethic of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Omnism

'Omnism' as a category that suggests that everything has intrinsic value.

There is no clear boundary between what is and is not intrinsically valuable and it is better for something to exist than to not exist (but cf. antinatalism in Suffering).

Davison, Scott A. On the Intrinsic Value of Everything. London: Continuum, 2012.

No good reason to deny the intrinsic value of anything that holds some information content and everything holds some information content.

Floridi, Luciano. ‘On the Intrinsic Value of Information Objects and the Infosphere’. Ethics and Information Technology 4, no. 4 (2002): 287–304. https://doi.org/10/bm4mtj.

Evolutionary Origins of (Human) Ethics

Christakis, Nicholas A. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2019.

Land Ethics and Geoethics

Callicott, Baird J. Thinking Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Bohle, Martin, ed. Exploring Geoethics. New York: Springer, 2019.

Ethics of Expenditure

Nail, Bataille.

Stoekl, Allan. Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10212615.

Environmental Ethics

For a recent historical review:

Hourdequin, Marion. “Environmental Ethics: The State of the Question.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 59, no. 3 (2021): 270–308. https://doi.org/10/gqbzgf.

For a textbook with an overview:

DesJardins, Joseph R. Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy. 5th ed. 1993. Reprint, Belmont: Wadsworth, 2013.

Ethics of Conservation

Gray, Jennifer. Zoo Ethics: The Challenges of Compassionate Conservation. Clayton South: CSIRO, 2017.

Astroethics

Kearnes, Matthew, and Thom van Dooren. ‘Rethinking the Final Frontier: Cosmo-Logics and an Ethic of Interstellar Flourishing’. GeoHumanities 3, no. 1 (2017): 178–97. https://doi.org/10/gr6tsx.

Kaufman, Jason A., Andrew Lenartz, and T. Elliott Floyd. ‘An Interplanetary Land Ethic’. Sustainability and Climate Change 15, no. 1 (2022): 50–57. https://doi.org/10/gr6tsz.

Journals

Ethics and Information Technology

Organisations

Wild Animals

Animal Ethics Horta, protection of wild animals Wild Animal Initiative

Introductory Materials

Online course introducing wild animal suffering

Subnotes

Footnotes

Lupisella, Mark. ‘Is the Universe Enough? Can It Suffice as a Basis for Worldviews?’ In Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives, edited by Ian Crawford, 217–37. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Cham: Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10/gr6vj2.˄

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