Env Phil Fall 2012 Hettinger

Environmental Philosophy

	Philosophy 245, Fall 2012, Ned Hettinger Syllabus Schedule of Assignments Crtical Question Dates Spring Philosophy Courses GRE scores by major Paper Assignment Possible paper topics Articles for papers Suggestions for Writing Your Paper Quiz score explanation	Environmental Studies Minor Masters Environmental Studies *CofC Sustainability Office Presidential Candidates Environmental Positions Eating Animals Events
Date	Reading assignment	Class Notes	Miscellaneous
Tuesday, Dec 11, 12pm in our classroom Exam on Aesthetics and Nature Exam study questions	Aesthetics and Nature		Glenn Parsons Carbon Cap and Trade in California
Thurs, Nov 29	Parsons, Ch 9: Art in Nature (128-140)	Parsons on Env Art	Andy Goldsworthy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides
Tues, Nov 27	Katherine Robinson and Kevin Elliott, "Environmental Aesthetics and Public Environmental Philosophy"	Robinson & Elliott on Aes Preservationism	Temple Grandin Public Lecture, Tues, Nov 27, 7:00 pm. Sottile Theatre (Free quiz opportunity) Bekoff, Going to Slaughter: Should Animals Hope to Meet Temple Grandin? Are Animals Autistic Savants?
Tues, Nov 20	Parsons, Ch 7: Aesthetics and the Preservation of Nature (95-113)	Parsons on Aes Preservationism
Paper Due (new date) Mon, Nov 19 (Paper copy, inside mailbox 14 Glebe, 4pm
Thurs, Nov 15	Parsons, Ch 6: Nature and the Disembodied Aesthetic (81-94)	Parsons on Engagement	Mountain Top Removal, Fri, Nov 16, Noon, Physicians (Free quiz opportunity) Fate of Oxen at Green Mtn College
Tues, Nov 13	Parsons, Ch 5: Pluralism (66-80)	Parsons on Pluralism	Consumption and Culture Green Bag, Mon, Nov 12, 12-1:30, Stern Ctr Ballroom (Free quiz opportunity) "Sun Come Up" (GW Documentary) & Panel Discussion, Tues, Nov 13, 6:00pm Hollings Science Center, 58 Coming Street, Rm 121 (Free quiz opportunity)
Thurs, Nov 8	Parsons, Ch 4: Science and Nature Aesthetics (49-65)	Parsons, Ch 4: Science in Nature Aes	Sinnott-Armstrong no harm in driving gas guzzler (video) Against Eating Local The inefficiency of local food Native Group Tries Geoengineering
Friday, Nov 2: Paper proposal due (by email)
Thurs,Nov 1	Parsons, Ch 3: Formalism (34-48)	Parsons, Ch 3: Formalism in Nature Aes	Conservative Lorax (humor) Eating Loved Farm Animals
Tues, Oct 30	Parsons, Ch 2: Imagination, Belief, and the Aesthetics of Nature (18-33)	Parsons, Ch 2: Thought, PM view, and Aes Norms	Film: Story of Earth Liberation Front, Mon, Oct 29, 5:30 RSS 235 (Free Quiz Opportunity)
Thurs, Oct 25	Glenn Parsons, Aesthetics and Nature (hereafter “Parsons”), Ch 1: Approaching the Philosophy of Natural Beauty (1-17)	Parsons, Ch 1: Nature, Beauty, History, & Aes Quality
Tues, Oct 23: Exam on Palmer's book Study Questions for Exam	Ethics of Wild and Domesticated Animals		Eating Animals Tues, Oct 23, 5pm TD Arena: Talk by author Jonathan Foer on Eating Animals (Free Quiz Opportunity) Additional time to meet Foer: 3:15-4:00p, Stern Center Ballroom (Jewish Student Union, Jewish Studies faculty and students and others) (Free Quiz Opportunity) Mon, Oct 22, 4pm ECTR 118 Sustainability of Food Choices (Free Quiz Opportunity) New York Times Essay Contest on Why Ethical to Eat Meat Where Cows are Happy and Food is Healthy Kristof, Please Wince (response to above and attack on Foer)
Thurs, Oct 18	Palmer, Ch 8: Puzzling Through Some Cases and Conclusion, pp 141-166	Palmer, Ch 8: Cases and Conclusion
Tues, Oct 16	Palmer, Ch 7: Some Problems and Questions, pp. 115-140	Palmer, Ch 7: Human assistance, domestication, painless killing
Thurs, Oct 11	Palmer, Ch 6: Past Harms and Special Obligations, pp. 96-114	Palmer, Ch 6: Past Harms and Special Obligations
Tues, Oct 9:	Palmer, Ch 5: Developing a New, Relational Approach, pp. 77-95	Palmer, Ch 5: New Relational Approach	Death of Barry Commoner
Thurs, Oct 4	Palmer, Ch 4: Wildness, Domestication, and the Laissez-faire Intuition 63-76	Palmer, Ch 4: Wildness, Domestication, and LFI
Tues, Oct 2	Palmer, Ch 3: Capacities, Contexts and Relations, pp. 44-62	Palmer, Ch 3: Capacities, Contexts, Relations	Movie about Aldo Leopold Tues, Oct 2, 4:45, RSS 235 (Free quiz opportunity)
Thurs, Sept 27	Palmer, Ch 2: Capacity-Oriented Accounts of Animal Ethics, pp. 25-43	Palmer, Ch 2: Capacity Animal Ethics	Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce Policing Nature
Tues, Sept 25	Clare Palmer, Animal Ethics in Context (Columbia 2010) (hereafter “Palmer”), Introduction and Ch 1: Animals’ Capacities and Moral Status, pp. 1-24	Palmer, Intro and Chapter One	Carol Adams Sexual Politics of Meat Talk details Tues, Sept 25, 4pm, RSS 235 (free quiz opportunity) about Clare Palmer
	Ethics and Climate Change		Greenbag Lunch on Climate Change Mon, Sept 24, 12-1:30 Stern Center Ballroom (free quiz opportunity)
Thurs, Sept 20 Exam on Ethics and Climate Change	Study Questions on Ethics of Climate Change		Animal Minds Panel Animal Neuroethics Paper Thurs, Sept 20, 3:30, RS Smalls 235 (free quiz opportunity)
Tues: Sept 18	Ty Raterman, “Bearing the Weight of the World: On the Extent of an Individual's Environmental Responsibility”	Raterman on Extent of Individual Env Responsibility
Thurs, Sept 13	Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, “It’s Not My Fault,”in Gardner, pp. 332-346.	Sinnott-Armstrong's Not My Fault	Individual env action? Going Green but Getting Nowhere Do Individual Acts Help Save the Planet? Joakim Sandberg “My Emissions Make No Difference”: Climate Change and the Argument from Inconsequentialism Story of Change (video)
Tues, Sept 11	Stephen Gardner, “Is ‘Arming the Future’ with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil?: Some Doubts about the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System” in Gardner, pp. 284-312	Gardner on Geoengineering	Preston on mechanisms for geoengineering David Keith, "Should we Engineer the Planet?" (video)
Thurs, Sept 6	Peter Singer “One Atmosphere,” in Gardner, pp. 181-199.	Singer on CC
Tues, Sept 4	Simon Caney, “Climate Change, Human Rights, and Moral Thresholds,” in Gardner, pp. 163-177	Simon Caney, CC and Human Rights	Why Organic May Not Be Healthier For You (NPR, audio)
Thurs, Aug 30	Henry Shue, “Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?” in Gardner, pp. 146-162.	Shue, Deadly Delays	Jamieson on Climate Change (video) Climate Science Primers
Tues, Aug 28	Derek Parfit, “Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem,” in Gardner, pp. 112-121	Parfit, Identity Problem	The Cost of Cool
Thurs, Aug 23	Stephen Gardner, “Ethics and Global Climate Change,” introduction to Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, & Henry Shue, Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010) (hereafter, “Gardner”), pp. 3-35	Gardner, Ethics and Global Climate Change	Who is the World's Biggest Polluter? About People's Climate Change Beliefs US CO2 Emissions Drop Lomborg's website Lomborg reverses course
Tues, Aug 21	Introduction





Animals	Food Week by CofC Green		Where Cows are Happy and Food is Healthy Kristof, Please Wince (response to above) Monkey Sense of Fairness?

Inside the Greenhouse (Understanding climate change via the arts)

Articles about: How Harmful Are Individuals Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Blue Skies Project
(to reduce airplane GHG emissions)

Climate and having children

The Moral Costs of Climate Change (video)

Humor: Daily Show on Two Headed Fish

Goldsworthy Site

Video link: Rivers and Tides