The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics: The Virtuous Epistemic Circle

The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics: The Virtuous Epistemic Circle
ISBN-10
9400750676
ISBN-13
9789400750678
Category
Science
Pages
179
Language
English
Published
2013-01-06
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Donato Bergandi

Description

Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental policy management has gradually but radically changed the relationship between these disciplines. Over the last decades in particular, there has emerged a need for an interconnecting meta-paradigm that integrates more strictly evolutionary studies, biodiversity studies and the ethical frameworks that are most appropriate for allowing a lasting co-evolution between natural and social systems. Today such a need is more than a mere luxury, it is an epistemological and practical necessity.​

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