Fall 2001
Dr. Rolston
Aug. 23. First class. Orientation
and Introduction.
Aug. 30 - Unit I - Intrinsic Value in Nature
Rolston, Value in Nature and the Nature of Value
Lee, Source and Locus of Intrinsic Value
John O'Neill, The Varieties of Intrinsic Value
Rolston, Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species
Hettinger, Comments on Rolston's `Naturalizing
Values'
Sept. 6 - Unit II -- Intrinsic Value: Epistemological
Troubles
Callicott, Rolston on
Intrinsic Value: A Deconstruction
Norton, Epistemology and Environmental Values
Preston, Epistemology and Intrinsic Values: Norton and Callicott
on
Rolston
Rolston, "F/Actual Knowing: Putting Facts and
Values in Place"
Sept. 13 - Unit III -- Subjective and Objective Troubles
Eugene C. Hargrove, Weak Anthropocentric Intrinsic Value
Partridge, Values in Nature: Is Anybody There?
Rolston, Values at Stake: Does Anything Matter? (reply)
Partridge, Discovering a World of Values (reply)
Sept. 20 - Unit IV - Living Organisms, Trees
Goodpaster, On Being Morally Considerable
Attfield, The Good of Trees
Agar, Biocentrism and the Concept of Life
Sept. 27 - Unit V -- Animal Values
Johnson, Do Animals Have an Interest in Life?
Weir, Are Animals Virtuous?
Fuller, The Messes Animals Make in Metaphysics
Carruthers, Brute Experience
Jamieson and Bekoff, Carruthers
on Nonconscious Experience
Oct. 4 - Unit VI -- Endangered Species versus Hungry People
Rolston, Feeding People versus Saving Nature
Attfield, Saving Nature, Feeding People and Ethics
Brennan, Poverty, Puritanism and Environmental Conflict
Rolston, Saving Nature, Feeding People, and the
Foundations of Ethics
Take-home midterm exam given out
Oct. 11 - Mid-term due, and discussed, defended in class
Oct. 18 - Unit VII -- Wilderness Troubles (Dr. Rolston in Portugal)
Callicott, The Wilderness Idea Revisited
Rolston, The Wilderness Idea Reaffirmed
Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back
to the Wrong Nature
Callicott, a Critique of and an Alternative to the
Wilderness Idea
Noss, Wilderness--Now More than Ever (response)
Foreman, Wilderness Areas Are Vital (response)
Callicott, Deep Grammar (response to responses)
Oct. 25 - Unit VIII -- Ecology Troubles
Sagoff, Ethics, Ecology and the Environment:
Integrating Science and Law.
Warning: long article!
Partridge, Reconstructing Ecology
Nov. 1 - Unit IX -- Nature and Culture
Rolston, Nature and Culture in Environmental Ethics
Michael, How to Interfere With Nature
Sprugel, Disturbance, Equilibrium ... What is
"Natural" Vegetation?
Rolston, Natural and Unnatural; Wild and Cultural
Nov. 8 - Unit X - Pristine and Inhabited Nature
Lee, Beauty Forever?
Kimmerer, Native Knowledge for Native Ecosystems
Rolston, A Managed Earth and
the End of Nature?
Nov. 15 - Unit XI - Social Construction of
Nature
Rolston, Nature for Real: Is Nature a Social
Construct?
Harlow, The Human Face of Nature
Callicott, La Nature est morte, vive la nature!
Evernden,
from The Social Creation of Nature, "The Fragile
Division" and "Nature and the Ultrahuman"
Take-Home Final exam given out
Nov. 22. Thanksgiving break
Nov. 29 - Unit XII -- Nature's
troubles
Williams, Mother Nature Is a Wicked Old Witch!
Williams, Huxley's Evolution and Ethics in Sociobiological
Perspective
Hrdy, Comments
Ruse, Comments
Burhoe, Comments
Cobb, Comments, Befriending an Amoral Nature
Williams, Reply to Comments
Rolston, Disvalues in Nature
Dec. 6 - Class discussion of Final Exam
Grading:
Weekly reading
tests
25%
Class
participation
25%
Take home mid-term, discussed 25%
Take home final, discussed 25%
100%
Text Materials
Agar, Nicholas, "Biocentrism and the Concept of Life," Ethics
108(1997)147-168.
Anderson, M. Kat, "Tending the Wilderness," Restoration and
Management Notes 14 (no. 2, Winter, 1996):154-166.
Attfield, Robin, "Saving Nature, Feeding People
and Ethics," Environmental Values 7(1998):291-304.
Attfield, Robin, "The Good of Trees,"
Journal of Value Inquiry 15(1981):35-54.
Brennan, Andrew, "Poverty, Puritanism and Environmental Conflict,"
Environmental Values 7(1998):305-331.
Burhoe, Ralph, "On `Huxley's Evolution and
Ethics in Sociobiological Perspective' by George C.
Williams," Zygon
23(1988):417-430.
Callicott, J. Baird, "Rolston
on Intrinsic Value: A Deconstruction," Environmental Ethics
14(1992):129-143.
Callicott, J. Baird, "La Nature est morte, vive la nature!"
Callicott, J. Baird, "A Critique of and an
Alternative to the Wilderness Idea," Wild Earth 4 (no. 4, Winter
1994/1995):54-59.
Callicott, J. Baird, "Deep Grammar"
(response to responses), Wild Earth 5 (no. 1, Spring
1995):64-66.
Callicott, J. Baird, "The Wilderness Idea
Revisited: The Sustainable Development Alternative," Environmental
Professional 13(1991):235-247. Reprinted in Lori Gruen
and Dale Jamieson, eds., Reflecting on Nature:
Carruthers, Peter, "Brute Experience,"
Journal of Philosophy 85(1989):258-269.
Cobb, John B, Jr., "Befriending an Amoral Nature" (response to
Williams), Zygon
23(1988):431-436.
Cronon, William, "The Trouble with Wilderness;
or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature," from William Cronon,
ed., Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996),
pages 69- 90.
Evernden, Neil, "The
Fragile Division" and "Nature and the Ultrahuman."
Pages 88-103 and 107-124 in The Social Creation of
Nature (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
Foreman, David, "Wilderness Areas Are Vital" (response), Wild Earth 4
(no. 4, Winter 1994/1995):64-68.
Fuller, B. A. G., "The Messes Animals Make in Metaphysics," Journal
of Philosophy 46(1949):829-838.
Goodpaster, Kenneth E., "On Being Morally
Considerable," Journal of Philosophy 75(1978):303-325.
Hargrove, Eugene C., "Weak Anthropocentric Intrinsic Value,"
Harlow, Elizabeth M., "The Human Face of Nature: Environmental
Values and the Limits of Nonanthropocentrism,"
Environmental Ethics 14(1992):27-42.
Hettinger, Ned, "Comments on Holmes Rolston's
`Naturalizing Values'." Pages 86-89 in Louis P. Pojman,
ed., Environmental Ethics:
Hrdy, Sara Blaffer,
"Comments on George Williams's Essay on Morality and Nature," Zygon 23(1988):409-411.
Jamieson, Dale and Mark Bekoff, "Carruthers on Nonconscious
Experience," Analysis 52(no. 1, January 1992):25-28.
Johnson, Lawrence, "Do Animals Have an Interest in Life?"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 61(1983):172-184.
Kimmerer, "Native Knowledge for Native
Ecosystems," Journal of Forestry 98(no. 8, August 2000):4-9.
Lee, Keekok, "Beauty for Ever?"
Environmental Values 4(1995):213- 225.
Lee, Keekok, "The Source and Locus of Intrinsic
Value: A Reexamination," Environmental Ethics 18(1996):297-309.
Michael, Mark A., "How to Interfere With Nature," Environmental
Ethics 23(2001):135-154.
Norton,
Noss, Reed E., "Wilderness--Now More than
Ever" (response), Wild Earth 4 (no. 4, Winter 1994/1995):60-63.
O'Neill, John, "The Varieties of Intrinsic Value,"
Monist 75(no. 2, April 1992):119-137.
Partridge, Ernest, "Discovering a World of Values: A Response to Rolston". Pages 91-92 in Louis
J. Pojman, ed., Environmental Ethics:
Partridge, Ernest, "Values in Nature: Is Anybody There?"
Philosophical Inquiry 8(1986):97-110. Reprinted, pages 81-88 in Louis J. Pojman, ed., Environmental Ethics:
Partridge, Ernest, "Reconstructing Ecology."
Pages 79-97 in David Pimentel, Laura Westra, and Reed
Noss, eds., Ecological Integrity: Integrating
Environment, Conservation, and Health (
Rolston, Holmes, "Disvalues in Nature," Monist 75(no. 2, April 1992):250-278.
Rolston, Holmes, "Feeding People versus Saving
Nature" Pages 248- 267 in William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette, eds., World Hunger and Morality, 2nd ed.,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996).
Rolston, Holmes, "Naturalizing Values: Organisms
and Species." Pages 76-86 in Louis P. Pojman,
ed., Environmental Ethics:
Rolston, Holmes, "Nature for Real: Is Nature a
Social Construct?"Ê Pages 38-64 in T.D.J. Chappell, ed., The Philosophy of the
Environment (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1997).
Rolston, Holmes, "Saving Nature, Feeding People,
and the Foundations of Ethics," Environmental Values 7(1998):349-357.
Rolston, Holmes, "The Wilderness Idea
Reaffirmed," Environmental Professional 13(1991):370-377. Reprinted
in Lori Gruen and Dale Jamieson, eds., Reflecting on
Nature:
Rolston,
Holmes, "Nature and Culture in Environmental Ethics." Pages
151-158 in Klaus Brinkmann, ed., Ethics: The
Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 1 (Bowling
Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999).
Rolston,
Holmes, "A Managed Earth and the End of Nature?" Pages
143-164 in Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, Lester Embree, and Don E. Marietta, eds. The Philosophies of Environment and Technology, vol. 18 of Research
in Philosophy of Technology (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999).
Rolston, Holmes, III, "Value in Nature and the
Nature of Value," Pages 13-30 in Robin Attfield
and Andrew Belsey, eds., Philosophy and the Natural
Environment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Rolston, Holmes, III, "Values at Stake: Does
Anything Matter? A Response to Ernest Partridge".
Pages 88-90 in Louis J. Pojman,
ed., Environmental Ethics:
Rolston, Holmes, III, "Natural and Unnatural:
Wild and Cultural," Western North American Naturalist 61(no. 3,
2001):267-276.
Rolston, "F/Actual Knowing: Putting Facts and
Values in Place," manuscript. Forthcoming in Christopher
Preston, ed., Epistemology and Environment (
Sagoff, Mark, "Ethics, Ecology and the
Environment: Integrating Science and Law,"
Sprugel, Douglas G., "Disturbance, Equilibrium,
and Environmental Variability: What is `Natural' Vegetation in a Changing
Environment?" Biological Conservation 58(1991):1-18.
Weir, Jack, "Are Animals Virtuous?" (manuscript)
Williams, George C., "Reply to Comments on `Huxley's Evolution and Ethics
in Sociobiological Perspective,'" Zygon 23(1988):437-438.
Williams, George C., "Huxley's Evolution and Ethics in Sociobiological
Perspective," Zygon 23(1988):383-407.
Williams, George C., "Mother Nature Is a Wicked Old Witch!"
Pages 217-231 in Matthew H. Nitecki and Doris V. Nitecki, eds.,Evolutionary
Ethics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995).
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