From 23 July to 25 July 2015, the Chair for Philosophy and Ethics of the Environment at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany, will host the annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Ethics under the heading "Environmental Ethics between Action and Reflection." The title expresses the idea that environmental ethics can be understood as encompassing two different routes of inquiry and reasoning. One route is practical: as a field of applied ethics, environmental ethics aims to guide action. It starts from moral norms and principles, concepts and ideas (e.g., sustainability, deep ecology, environmental justice) and develops them into guidelines, rules, and objectives for practical engagement and policy making. The other route is reflective: as a field of applied ethics, environmental ethics acts as the bridge between lived practical problems and the conceptual reflections that illuminate them critically according to their presuppositions. The conference will mirror the current scope of environmental ethics with respect to both action and reflection.
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