Environmental Ethics, Hettinger, Fall 2007
Notes on Reading
Miscellaneous
Meadows, "Beyond The Limits"
Syllabus
Ecological Footprint
Schedule
Julian Simon, "Resources are Infinite"
World Vital Signs 2006
Ron Arnold on Wise Use and Environmentalism
Report on Climate Change
Baxter, People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution
Audio: "Skeptical environmentalist" Lomborg unconvinced about global warming
The Question of Moral Standing and Anthropocentric Response
Audio: Humans, animals, and "social intelligence"
Peter Wenz, "Just Garbage"
Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University
The Witness
Kerasote, "Hunting kills fewer animals than eating vegetables"
Peter Singer, "All Animals are Equal"
about Peter Singer
Tom Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights"
video of Tom Regan
and
Regan Animal Rights Archive
Michael Pollan, "An Animal's Place"
about Michael Pollan
Carl Cohen, "The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research"
about Carl Cohen
Jamieson, "Zoos Revisited"
about Dale Jamieson
Brian Luke, "A Critical Analysis of Hunters' Ethics"
Midterm Study Questions
Mark Sagoff
"Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce
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Paper Assignment and Some Possible Paper Topics
Paul Taylor, "Respect for Nature"
Ned Hettinger's Bibliography
Paul Taylor, "Priority Principles"
Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic"
Hettinger, Seven Ways Not to Think About the Natural
Robert Elliot, "Faking Nature"
Suggestions for Writing your Philosophy Paper
Cronon, "Trouble with Wilderness"
Converse, "How Owns The Land?"
Final Exam Study Questions
Notes On Environmental Disobedience
Rolston, "Does Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscapes Need to be Science Based?"