Environmental Ethics
Syllabus
Schedule of Assignments
Paper Assignment
Miscellaneous
Hettinger's Bibliography
Religious Environmental Ethics (Not required reading)
Second Half of the Semester
Sagoff, "Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce"
Taylor, "Respect for Nature"
Taylor, "Priiority Principles"
Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic"
Hettinger & Throop, "Ecocentrism and Wildness"
Notes on Hettinger & Throop on Wildness
Hettinger, Seven Ways Not To Think About The Natural
Hettinger, Alaska, Oil, and Energy
Cronon, The Trouble With Wilderness
Converse, Owning Nature
FINAL EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS
First Half of the Semester
Meadows, "Beyond The Limits"
Ecological Footprint
Julian Simon, "Resources are Infinite"
Ron Arnold, "Wise Use"
Notes on Arnold on Wise Use and Environmentalism
Moral Standing and Anthropocentrism
Baxter, "People or Penguins: Case for Optimal Pollution"
Wenz, "Just Garbage"
Singer, "Equality for Animals"
The Witness
Kerasote, "Hunting kills fewer animals than eating vegetables"
Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights"
Pollan, "An Animal's Place"
Cohen, "Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research"
Cohen, Quotes
DeGrazia, "What Animals Are Like"
DeGrazia, "Harming Animals"
Jamieson, "Zoos Revisited"