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Rolston, Holmes, III
Holmes Rolston III (1932–) is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is the founder of the journal Environmental Ethics and has been active in establishing, shaping, and defining the modern discipline of environmental philosophy. Rolston was born in Rockbridge Baths, Virginia, and studied at Davidson College (physics and mathematics), Union Seminary (he is a Presbyterian minister, as were his father and grandfather before him), and the University of Pittsburgh (philosophy) before earning his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. Rolston has published a number of seminal books in environmental philosophy including Philosophy Gone Wild, Environmental Ethics, and Conserving Natural Value.
Rolston has sought an expansion of a philosophical understanding of the natural world. He argues that the natural world carries intrinsic values, ...
- Anthropocentrism
- Biocentrism
- Brundtland Report
- Club of Rome (and Limits to Growth)
- Death of Environmentalism, The
- Earth Charter
- Earth Day 1970
- Earth Summit
- Earthlife Africa
- Ecological Crisis, The Historical Roots of Our
- Endangered Species Act
- Environmental Ethics Journal
- Environmental Policy Act, National
- Global Greens Charter
- Green Altruism
- Land Ethic
- Love Canal, Carter Administration and the
- Philosophy and Environmental Crisis
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Silent Spring
- Tragedy of the Commons
- United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals
- United Tasmania Group
- Wilderness Act of 1964
- Attfield, Robin
- Bailey, Liberty Hyde
- Berry, Reverend Fr. Thomas
- Berry, Wendell
- Bookchin, Murray
- Borlaug, Norman
- Callicott, J. Baird
- Carson, Rachel
- d'Eaubonne, Françoise
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Fuller, Buckminster
- Gandhi, Mohandas
- Gore, Jr., Al
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Hargrove, Dr. Eugene C.
- Hayes, Denis
- Leopold, Aldo
- Lovelock, James Ephraim
- Marsh, George Perkins
- Mathews, Freya
- Muir, John
- Mumford, Lewis
- Naess, Arne
- Passmore, John
- Pinchot, Gifford
- Rolston, Holmes, III
- Singer, Peter
- Steffen, Alex
- Taylor, Paul W.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Warren, Karen
- Animal Ethics
- Anthropocentrism
- Biocentric Egalitarianism
- Biocentrism
- Civic Environmentalism
- Climate Ethics
- Deep Ecology
- Deep Green Theory
- Ecocentrism
- Ecofascism
- Ecofeminism/Ecological Feminism
- Economism
- Ecophenomenology
- Environmental Pluralism
- Gaia Hypothesis
- Green Party Ethical System, Four Pillars of the
- Hannover Principles
- Human Values and Sustainability
- Instrumental Value
- Intergenerational Justice
- International Association of Environmental Philosophy
- Intrinsic Value
- Kantian Philosophy and the Environment
- Marshall, Alan (Libertarian Extension)
- Pragmatism
- Strong and Weak Sustainability
- Sustainability, Seventh Generation
- Sustainability and Distributive Justice
- Ten Key Values of the Greens
- Utilitarianism
- Adaptive Management
- Agriculture
- Biodiversity
- Bright Green Environmentalism
- Business Ethics, Shades of Green
- China
- Conservation
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Democracy
- Development, Ethical Sustainability and
- Ecological Restoration
- Ecology
- Ecopedagogy and Ecodidactics
- Ecopolitics
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Policy
- Ethics and Science
- Genetic Engineering
- Globalization
- Green Liberalism
- Green Party, German
- Greenwashing
- Precautionary Principle
- Preservation
- Sierra Club
- Social Ecology
- Sustainability and Spiritual Values
- Technology
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Urbanization
- Carbon Offsets
- Consumption, Business Ethics and
- Consumption, Consumer Ethics and
- Ecological Footprint
- Ethical Vegetarianism
- Local Food Movement
- Marketing, Consumption Ethics and
- Organic Trend
- Sustainability, Business Ethics and
- Sustainability, Consumer Ethics and
- Western “Way of Life”
- Environmental Justice Ecology, Radical
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
- Environmental Values and Law
- Forest Preservation Laws
- Green Ethics in the Legal Community
- Green Law Trends
- Green Laws and Incentives
- Post-Construction Landscape Laws
- San Pedro Border Fence
- Should Trees Have Standing?
- Urban Tree Management Ordinances
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