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Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2005
I
propose a new view that construes the environment in terms of
"an-entity-having-an-interest-in-something" and
"something-being-in-or-against-an-entity's-interest" that I have
adapted from Paul Taylor. I use the former to define the environment for
conscious beings, which corresponds to local environments, and the latter for
both conscious and non-conscious living beings, corresponding to wider
environments. I endeavor to show that this view avoids the shortcomings and
preserves the virtues of the other views.