Philosophy 245: Environmental Philosophy
Schedule of Assignments, Hettinger, Fall, 2005
Holmes Rolston III, Conserving Natural Value
- Aug 25: Chapter One: Natural and Cultural Values 1
- Nature and Culture 1-6
- Nature Supporting Culture 6-9
- Residence and Resource: Community and Commodity 9-12
- Urban, Rural and Wild 12-16
- Environmental Values and Human Rights 16-19
- Future Generations 19-24
- Environmental Policy 23-26
- Balancing Natural and Cultural Values (Ten rules of thumb) 26-33
- Aug 30: Chapter Two: Diversity and Complexity Values 34
- Diversity 34-40
- Complexity 40-44
- Evolution of Diversity and Complexity 44-49
- Rarity 50-54
- Biodiversity and the Commons 54-58
- Richness 58-61
- Balancing Biodiversity Values and Cultural Values (Ten rules of thumb) 62-67
- Sept 1: Chapter Three: Ecosystem Integrity and Health Values 68
- Integrity and Health 69-73
- Stability and Historical Change 74-77
- Community 77-82
- Sustainability 83-88
- Restoration 88-93
- Balancing Integrity and Health Values (Nine rules of thumb) 94-100
- Sept 6: Chapter Four: Wildlife Values 101
- Lower and higher animals 102-106
- Animal Rights? 106-110
- Animal Welfare and Managed Wildlife 110-114
- Feral and Exotic "Wildlife" 114-118
- Aesthetic Appreciation of Wildlife 118-122
- Using Wildlife: Animal Sports 122-126
- Using Wildlife: Animal Commerce 126-130
- Wildlife in Culture 130-132
- Sept 8: Chapter Five: Anthropocentric Values 133
- Human Values Carried by Nature (lists 14) 134-141
- Winning or Losing in Environmental Ethics 141-145
- Rich and Poor, Population and Consumption 145-150
- Human Rights to Development 150-154
- Democracy Economics and Environment 154-158
- Anthropogenic and Anthropocentric Values 158-162
- Human Excellences and Natural Values 162-166
- Sept 13: Chapter Six: Intrinsic Natural Values 167
- Life as Conservation 168-171
- Intrinsic, Instrumental and Systemic Values 171-177
- Storied Achievement 178-181
- Integrity of Place 181-184
- Wilderness 184-192
- Objective and Subjective Natural Values 192-197
- The End of Nature? 197-202
- Sept 15: Chapter Seven: The Home Planet 203
- Land Ethics and Earth Ethics 204-210
- Natural Resources and Common Natural Heritage 210-214
- International Law and Environmental Ethics 214-218
- Mother Earth? 219-223
- Managing the Planet? 223-228
- Balancing Global Natural and Human Cultural Values (Ten rules of thumb including "earth is more important than
people") 228-234
- Inheriting the Earth 234-236
- Sept 20: Catch up class
- Sept 22: Exam on Rolston
Emily Brady, Aesthetics of the Natural Environment
- Sept 27: Introduction and Chaper One: Aesthetic Appreciation, 1-28
- Sept 29: Chapter Two: Early Theories of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature 29-51
- Oct 4: Chapter Three: Culture, Art, and Environment 52-85
- Oct 6: Chapter Four: Contemporary Theories of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature 86-119
- Oct 11: Chapter Five: The Integrated Aesthetic I: Multi-sensuous Engagement 120-145
- Oct 13: Chapter Six: The Integrated Aesthetic II: Imagination, Emotion and Knowledge 146-190
- Fall Break
- Oct 20: Same as above
- Friday, Oct 21, Paper proposal due
- Oct 25: Chapter Seven: Aesthetic Judgements of the Natural Environment and Aesthetic
Communication 191-223
- Oct 27: Aesthetics, Ethics and Environmental Conservation 224-267
- Nov 1: Same as above
- Nov 3: Exam on Brady
Paper presentations
- Nov 8: Presentation of (draft) papers to the class
- Nov 10: Presentation of (draft) papers to the class
- Nov 15: Presentation of (draft) papers to the class
Artifacts, Urban Environmental Ethics, Virtue Ethics and Environmental Philosophy, & Political
Philosophy and the Environment
- Nov 17: Steven Vogel, "The Nature of Artifacts," Environmental Ethics 25,2 (Summer 2003): 149-168.
- Nov 22: Alastair Gunn, "Rethinking Communities: Environmental Ethics in an Urbanized World"
Environmental Ethics 20,4 (Winter 1998): 341-360
- Thanksgiving break
- Nov 29: Phil Cafaro, "Gluttony, Arrogance, Greed, and Apathy: An Exploration of Environmental
Vice" in Phil Cafarro and Ron Sandler, eds., Environmental Virtue Ethics (Rowman and Littlefield,
2005), pp. 135-158.
- Dec 1: Robert Goodin, "Enfranchising the Earth and its Alternatives," Political Studies 44 (1996):
pp. 835-849
Friday Dec. 2nd, Paper Due
Exam on final material (during final exam period, Tuesday, Dec 13, 12-3)