Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C 38
(1):289-296 (2007) |Abstract||Sahotra Sarkar’s Biodiversity and
environmental philosophy, An introduction is an important and
timely book. The book is unique in that it is genuinely
interdisciplinary: Sarkar is not only an observer, but also an
active participant in the new field of conservation biology, and
so, his book not only reviews the best recent science, but also
advances it. The book is thus exemplary of both a naturalized
approach to philosophy of science and a scientifically informed
approach to environmental ethics. The book has four parts: a
defense of biodiversity preservation, a systematic overview of
ecological theory as it pertains to conservation, a critical
history of conservation biology, and a discussion of how to
prioritize places for conservation. Sarkar integrates nicely the
normative and scientific aspects of the problem of
conservation.| |Keywords||environmental philosophy biodiversity|
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