Proposes a nonanthropocentric reassessment of key themes and approaches in environmental philosophyIn A World Not Made for Us Keith R. Peterson provides a broad reassessment of the field of environmental philosophy taking a fresh and critical look at three classical problems of environmentalism the intrinsic value of nature the need for an ecological worldview and a new conception of the place of humankind in nature. He makes the case that a genuinely critical environmental philosophy must adopt an ecological materialist conception of the human a pluralistic value theory that emphasizes the need for value prioritization and a stratified categorial ontology that affirms the basic principle of human asymmetrical dependence on morethanhuman nature.