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  1. Faking nature.Robert Elliot - 1982 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 25 (1):81 – 93.
    Environmentalists express concern at the destruction/exploitation of areas of the natural environment because they believe that those areas are of intrinsic value. An emerging response is to argue that natural areas may have their value restored by means of the techniques of environmental engineering. It is then claimed that the concern of environmentalists is irrational, merely emotional or even straightforwardly selfish. This essay argues that there is a dimension of value attaching to the natural environment which cannot be restored no (...)
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  2. Faking Nature: The Ethics of Environmental Restoration.Robert Elliot - 1997 - Routledge.
    Faking Nature explores the arguments surrounding the concept of ecological restoration. This is a crucial process in the modern world and is central to companies' environmental policy; whether areas restored after ecological destruction are less valuable than before the damage took place. Elliot discusses the pros and cons of the argument and examines the role of humans in the natural world. This volume is a timely and provocative analysis of the simultaneous destruction and restoration of the natural world and the (...)
     
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    (1 other version)Faking Nature: The Ethics of Environmental Restoration.Robert Elliot - 1997 - Ethics and the Environment 3 (2):201-205.
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  4. Intrinsic Value, Environmental Obligation and Naturalness.Robert Elliot - 1992 - The Monist 75 (2):138-160.
    Here I argue that wild nature has intrinsic value, which gives rise to obligations both to preserve it and to restore it. First, an account of intrinsic value, which permits core environmentalist claims, is outlined and defended. Second, connections between intrinsic value and obligation are discussed. Third, it is argued that wild nature has intrinsic value, in part, in virtue of its naturalness.
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  5. The Rights of Future People.Robert Elliot - 1989 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 6 (2):159-170.
    It has been argued by some that the present non-existence of future persons entails that whatever obligations we have towards them are not based on rights which they have or might come to have. This view is refuted. It is argued that the present non-existence of future persons is no impediment to the attribution of rights to them. It is also argued that, even if the present non-existence of future persons were an impediment to the attribution of rights to them, (...)
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    Environmental Ethics.Robert Elliot (ed.) - 1995 - Oxford University Press.
    This volume offers a selection of some of the best and most interesting articles that have been written on ethics and the environment in the past two decades. It constitutes an ideal introduction to the main debates in the area, dealing with issues such as duties to future people, resource conservatism, species and wilderness preservation, the relevance of ecology to ethics, ecofeminism, and the tension between political liberalism and environmentalism. This book will be of interest not just to professional philosophers (...)
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  7. Progressive consequentialism.Dale Jamieson & Robert Elliot - 2009 - Philosophical Perspectives 23 (1):241-251.
    Consequentialism is the family of theories that holds that acts are morally right, wrong, or indifferent in virtue of their consequences. Less formally and more intuitively, right acts are those that produce good consequences. A consequentialist theory includes at least the following three elements: an account of the properties or states in virtue of which consequences make actions right, wrong, or indifferent; a deontic principle which specifies how or to what extent the properties or states must obtain in order for (...)
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    Identity and the Ethics of Gene Therapy.Robert Elliot - 2007 - Bioethics 7 (1):27-40.
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    Meta‐ethics and environmental ethics.Robert Elliot - 1985 - Metaphilosophy 16 (2‐3):103-117.
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    Rawlsian Justice and non-Human Animals.Robert Elliot - 1984 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 1 (1):95-106.
    In his book, A Theory of Justice, John Rawls argues against the inclusion of non-human animals within the scope of the principles of justice developed therein. However, the reasons Rawls, and certain commentators, have advanced in support of this view do not adequately support it. Against Rawls' view that 'we are not required to give strict justice' to creatures lacking the capacity for a sense of justice, it is initially argued that (i) de facto inclusion should be accorded non-human animals (...)
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  11. Personal identity and the causal continuity requirement.Robert Elliot - 1991 - Philosophical Quarterly 41 (January):55-75.
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    Extinction, restoration, naturalness.Robert Elliot - 1994 - Environmental Ethics 16 (2):135-144.
    Alastair S. Gunn has argued that it is in principle possible to restore degraded natural environments and to restore their full value, provided that species distinctive to them are extant. I argue, first, that the proviso is unnecessary. More importantly, I claim that full value cannot be restored because restored environments lack the relational property of being naturally evolved. I delineate and explain the structure and detail of the theoretical bases for this claim and show that Gunn’s reflections do not (...)
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    Facts About Natural Values.Robert Elliot - 1996 - Environmental Values 5 (3):221 - 234.
    Some environmental philosophers believe that the rejection of anthropocentric ethics requires the development and defence of an objectivist meta-ethical theory according to which values are, in the most literal sense. discovered not conferred. It is argued that nothing of normative or motivational import, however, turns on the meta-ethical issue. It is also argued that a rejection of normative anthropocentrism is completely consistent with meta-ethical subjectivism. Moreover the dynamics and outcomes of rational debate about normative environmental ethics are not determined by (...)
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    Moral Realism and the Modal Argument.Robert Elliot - 1987 - Analysis 47 (3):133 - 137.
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    Ecology and the Ethics of Environmental Restoration.Robert Elliot - 1994 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 36:31-43.
    In this volume leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the value of nature, the concept of the environment, and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications of these concepts. Philosophers have to some extent neglected the study of nature and the natural environment, and this collection not only provides a long-overdue contribution to that study, but also points to inadequacies of much contemporary ethical and political theory. For environmentalists who are not philosophers, it will stimulate reflection on their (...)
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    Future Generations, Locke's Proviso and Libertarian Justice.Robert Elliot - 1986 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 3 (2):217-227.
    Libertarian justice arguably permits much that is harsh. It might plausibly be thought to generate only minimal obligations on the part of present people toward future generations. This turns out not to be so, at least on Nozick's version of libertarian justice, which is among the most thoroughly worked-out versions. Nozickian justice generates extensive obligations to future people. This provides an indirect argument for environmentalist policies such as resource conservation and wilderness preservation. The basis for these obligations is Nozick's use (...)
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  17. Moral Autonomy, Self-Determination and Animal Rights.Robert Elliot - 1987 - The Monist 70 (1):83-97.
    Two perspectives dominate the general attempt to articulate the philosophical foundations of the animal liberation movement. On the one hand there is the utilitarian perspective typified by the work of Peter Singer. Here the morality of our treatment of nonhumans, and for that matter humans, is determined by an overarching concern to maximize a utility function. In Singer’s case this utility function is in some way composite. Singer urges the maximization of objective preference satisfaction and the maximization of pleasure. The (...)
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  18. Instrumental value in nature as a basis for the intrinsic value of nature as a whole.Robert Elliot - 2005 - Environmental Ethics 27 (1):43-56.
    Some environmental ethicists believe that nature as whole has intrinsic value. One reason they do is because they are struck by the extent to which nature and natural processes give rise to so much that has intrinsic value. The underlying thought is that the value -producing work that nature performs, its instrumentality, imbues nature with a value that is more than merely instrumental. This inference, from instrumental value to a noninstrumental value, has been criticized. After all, it seems to rely (...)
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    How to Travel Faster than Light?Robert Elliot - 1980 - Analysis 41 (1):4 - 6.
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    Divine Perfection, Axiology and the No Best World Defence.Robert Elliot - 1993 - Religious Studies 29 (4):533 - 542.
    Advocates of the traditional argument from evil assume that an omnipotent and morally perfect being, God, would create a world of the greatest value possible. They dispute that this world is such a world. It is difficult to disagree. They go on to conclude that this world could not have been created by God. It is, however, possible consistently both to agree that God could have guaranteed the existence of a better world than this world and to reject the conclusion (...)
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    Ii. the value of wild nature.Robert Elliot - 1983 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 26 (3):359 – 361.
    Don Mannison levels three criticisms at the claims I make in ?Faking Nature?. First, he claims that I argue from (1) X is valued to (2) X has value. I do not. Second, he criticizes an argument of Nelson Goodman's to which I allude. While his criticism has point he misrepresents the role I assign to Goodman's argument. Third, he suggests that there is no need for me to count environmental evaluations as evaluations of the moral kind. However, he offers (...)
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    Normative Ethics.Robert Elliot - 1991 - In Dale Jamieson (ed.), A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 177–191.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Human‐centered environmental ethics Beyond human‐centered environmental ethics Consequentialist environmental ethics Deontological environmental ethics Virtue‐based environmental ethics.
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  23. Environmental Philosophy a Collection of Readings /Edited by Robert Elliot and Arran Gare. --. --.Robert Elliot & Arran Gare - 1983 - Pennsylvania State University Press, C1983.
    Contents: Ethical principals for environmental protection / Robert Goodin -- Political representation for future generations / Gregory S. Kavka and Virginia L. Warren -- On the survival of humanity / Jan Narveson -- On deep versus shallow theories of environmental pollution / C.A. Hooker -- Preservation of wilderness and the good life / Janna L. Thompson -- The rights of the nonhuman world / Mary Anne Warren -- Are values in nature subjective or objective? / Holmes Rolston III - Duties (...)
     
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    Joint Attention and the Imago Trinitatis.Robert Elliot - 2023 - Zygon 58 (4):860-885.
    This article incorporates into Christian theological anthropology some recent findings of a school of scientific researchers in the fields of comparative and developmental psychology. These researchers—namely, Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, and others affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology—have advanced a theologically significant hypothesis about a basic difference between the social‐cognitive capacities of human beings and those of other animals. Their hypothesis is that human beings are distinguished from other animals, in part, because of an ability to share (...)
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  25. 156 part one: The multidisciplinary context of environmental ethics.Marcia Muelder Eaton, Robert Elliot, Gerry Ellis, Karen Kane & Natural Aesthetics - 2003 - Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence 35 (4):155.
     
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    Animals, Ecosystems and the Liberal Ethic, STEPHEN RL CLARK.Robert Elliot - 1987 - The Monist 70 (2).
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    A Subjectivist Environmental Ethics.Robert Elliot - forthcoming - Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions.
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    Consequentialism and absolutism.Robert Elliot - 1995 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (1):145 – 151.
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    Curriculum, morality and theories about value.Robert Elliot - 1982 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 14 (2):15–28.
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    Critical notices.Robert Elliot - 1985 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (4):499 – 509.
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    Descartes, god and the evil spirit.Robert Elliot & Michael Smith - 1978 - Sophia 17 (3):33-36.
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    Environmental degradation, vandalism and the aesthetic object argument.Robert Elliot - 1989 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67 (2):191 – 204.
  33. Environmental ethics, coll. « Oxford readings in philosophy ».Robert Elliot - 1995 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 185 (4):533-534.
     
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    (1 other version)Givenness and Hermeneutics: The Saturated Phenomenon and Historically‐Effected Consciousness.Robert Elliot - 2016 - Heythrop Journal 57 (6).
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    Going nowhere fast?Robert Elliot - 1982 - Analysis 42 (4):213.
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    Genetic Therapy, Person‐regarding Reasons and the Determination of Identity.Robert Elliot - 1997 - Bioethics 11 (2):151–160.
    It has been argued for example by Ingmar Persson, that genetic therapy performed on a conceptus does not alter the identity of the person that develops from it, even if we are essentially persons. If this claim is true then there can be person-regarding reasons for performing genetic therapy on a conceptus. Here it is argued that such person-regarding reasons obtain only if we are not essentially persons but essentially animals. This conclusion requires the defeat of the origination theory, which (...)
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    Individuating actions: A reply to McCullagh and Thalberg.Robert Elliot & Michael Smith - 1977 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 55 (3):209 – 212.
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    Intellect, Affect, and God: The Trinity, History, and the Life of Grace: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Doran, SJ, ed. Joseph Ogbonnaya and Gerard Whelan, SJ.Robert Elliot - 2021 - Method 35 (2):61-63.
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  39. In Defence of the Vegetarian Argument.Robert Elliot - 1981 - Applied Animal Ethology.
     
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    Resurrection and retrocognition.Robert Elliot - 1976 - Sophia 15 (1):28-31.
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    Regan on the sorts of beings that can have rights.Robert Elliot - 1978 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 16 (1):701-705.
  42. Reply to William Godfrey-Smith.Robert Elliot - 1980 - In Don S. Mannison, Michael A. McRobbie & Richard Sylvan (eds.), Environmental Philosophy. Dept. Of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. pp. 48-51.
    William Godfrey-Smith is now William Grey. It is agreed that the moral community can be justifiably extended to include sentient non-humans, however, it is claimed that it is possible to give up human chauvinism without adopting the ethic Godfrey-Smith advocates. Feinberg's interest principle is taken by Godfrey-Smith to be the most promising for demarcating the class of individuals to whom rights can be properly attributed. It is claimed that this principle does not force an extension of the class of rights-holders (...)
     
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    Materialism and Occam's Razor.Robert Elliot - 1979 - Philosophy 54 (208):233 - 234.
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    Personal identity, potentiality and abortion.Robert Elliot - 1995 - Philosophical Papers 24 (2):141-149.
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    Personal identity, reduplication and spatio-temporal continuity.Robert Elliot - 1978 - Philosophical Papers 7 (2):73-75.
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    Book Review: The Greening of Ethics. [REVIEW]Robert Elliot - 1996 - Environmental Values 5 (3):273-274.
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  47. J. Kleinig: "Ethical Issues in Psychosurgery". [REVIEW]Robert Elliot - 1988 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66:281.
     
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  48. Review of C.C.W. Taylor Ethics and the Environment. [REVIEW]Robert Elliot - 1994 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72:262-263.
     
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  49. Review of Freya Mathews The Ecological Self. [REVIEW]Robert Elliot - 1992 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70:369-370.
     
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  50. Review of Holmes Rolston III Philosophy Gone Wild. [REVIEW]Robert Elliot - 1987 - Canadian Philosophical Reviews 7:319-322.
     
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