Exam 15: Environmental Ethics

In both zoocentrism and biocentrism,the fundamental unit of moral consideration is:

Which philosopher maintains that we must include the interests of all sentient creatures and give their interests equal weight when calculating which action will produce the greatest overall satisfaction of interests?

The anthropocentrist necessarily has:

Biocentric egalitarianism asserts that all living things possess equal moral status-no being is superior to any other in moral considerability.A counterexample to this view is that we:

Suppose environmentalists want to prevent the disappearance of glaciers in Glacier National Park,which are melting away at an alarming rate.One plausible justification for their view is that:

The notion that only humans have moral status is called:

If Kant's anthropocentric view is correct,then using animals in horrifically painful medical experiments would be:

If you were a species nonegalitarian,you would likely believe that:

Those who believe that nature possesses instrumental value only are likely to believe that a forest has value only because:

The view that all living entities have moral status,whether sentient or not,is known as:

A utilitarian solution to the problem of disappearing tigers in India's game preserves would take ________ into account.

Suppose you are the last human on a dead planet.Only one other living thing exists-a maple tree.You are preparing to leave the planet for good,and you are debating with yourself about whether you should kill the tree before departing.In the end,you decide it would be morally impermissible to kill the tree.Your reluctance to kill the tree shows that:

To some,the fact that we value the beauty of Niagara Falls shows that we:

One who believes that some living things have greater moral status than others is known as a(n):

The controversy over the ivory-billed woodpecker has pitted those who want to build a massive irrigation project against environmentalists who want to stop the project to protect the woodpecker and other species.A biocentric species egalitarian would probably insist that the:

If Tom Regan's zoocentrist view is correct,then the practice of ________ would be impermissible.

Something with instrumental (or extrinsic)value is valuable as a means to something else;something with intrinsic value is valuable:

An anthropocentrist sees animals,plants,and ecosystems as:

Someone who believes that all living things have equal moral status is a(n):

According to Peter Singer,the pain suffered by a human is ________ important than that experienced by a nonhuman animal.