Environmental Philosophy
Ned Hettinger, Spring 2009

Syllabus, Readings and Tentative Schedule

Midterm Study Questions

Paper assignment and topics

Hettinger Bibliography

Suggestions for writing your philosophy paper

Peter Brown Lecture
"Economics without Ecocide"

Final Exam Study Questions

Callicott Visit
Wed, Feb 11: No class
Thurs, Feb 12, 3:15: Lecture
Friday, Feb 13, 2-3:15: Visit to Class

Reading Notes
For Class
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Jamieson, Ch. One: Environment as an Ethical Question
Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment, Ch 1
Gardner on geo-engineering as a response to climate change
Peter Singer review of Dale Jamieson book
Jamieson, Ch. Two: Human Morality
Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment, Ch 2
Summers' memo: More pollution for the 3rd world?
Jamieson, An American Paradox
(Why people don't act to protect the environment)
Jamieson, Ch. Three: Meta-Ethics
 
Lynn White, "The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis"
Hansen letter to Obama on responses to global warming
   
Wendell Berry, "Christianity and the Survival of Creation"
Bekoff, "Animals Know Right from Wrong"
Callicott
Callicott
    
Callicott, "The Land Ethic"

Callicott, "The Land Ethic"

Preface to Leopold's A Sand County Almanac
Leopold's Land Ethic, from A Sand County Almanac
 
Callicott, "What Wilderness"
Callicott, "What 'Wilderness' in Frontier Ecosystems?"
William Cronon's "The Trouble with Wilderness"
 
Callicott and Grove-Fanning "Should Endangered Species Have Standing?"
Callicott and Grove-Fanning, "Should Species Have Standing"
Ecuador Constitution Gives Rights to Nature
Randolph Hall Tree Controversy
Student and prof. questions for Callicott
Callicott, "My Reply"
 
People
     
J. Baird Callicott
Jamieson, Ch. 4, Normative Ethics
   
Allen Carlson
     
Dale Jamieson
Environmental Virtue Ethics
Environmental Virtue Ethics
 
Louke van Wensveen
van Wensveen, "Emergence of Ecological Virtue Language"
van_Wensveen _Dirty_Virtues_CH_1
List of Ecological Virtues and Vices
Rosalind Hursthouse
Hursthouse, "Environmental Virtue Ethics"
Hursthouse_Environmental_Virtue_Ethics
  
Phil Cafaro
Cafaro, "Gluttony, Arrogance, Greed, and Apathy: Environmental Vice"
Cafaro, "Gluttony, Arrogance, Greed, and Apathy: An Exploration of Environmental Vice"
Children to Adults: You are failing us
       
Jamieson, Ch. 5, Humans and Other Animals
      
Jamieson, Ch 6, The Value of Nature
     
       
Environmental Aesthetics
Environmental Aesthetics
   
Carlson, Ch 1 & Ch 2
     
Carlson, Ch 3, Ch 4, & Ch 5
     
Carlson, Ch 6 & Ch 7
     
       

Jamieson, Ch 7: Nature's Future

 
Living Sustainably at The College of Charleston (video)
Anti-Environmental Web Site
(be very skeptical about what you read there)
       
Climate Change and Ethics
Climate Change and Ethics
   
Gardner, "A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption"
Gardner, "A Perfect Moral Storm"
Jamieson, "Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice"
 
 

Obama’s Backing Raises Hopes for Climate Pact

  
       
       
       
       
 

Don't read:

Gardner, "Ethics and Climate Change"