Abstract
Motivated by the disconnect between the seeming impossibility of resolving deep metaphysical disputes, and the pressing need for environmental action, many environmental philosophers have embraced environmental pragmatism. Environmental pragmatists focus on the practical effects of philosophical arguments. With this as their agenda, environmental pragmatists have consistently endorsed anthropocentrism as the value system for discussing environmental issues, in order to achieve efficacious results. This is based on the notion that appeals to human goods are the best means for motivating humans to action. This essay will show some conceptual and empirical problems with this pretense, to argue that true environmental pragmatists ought to supplement anthropocentric values with nonanthropocentric value of the non-human world.
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Callanan, L. Pippa
(2023)
"Intrinsic Value for the Environmental Pragmatist,"
International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities: Vol. 2:
Iss.
2, Article 16.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/ijurca/vol2/iss2/16