Semester Two
1. The source and locus of values; objective values.
2. The loci of intrinsic values in Nature:
(A) in individual higher animals which can feel pain and suffer - sentientism (Singer) or which are each the subject-of-a-life (Regan).
(B) in individual animals (high and low) and plants each of which has 'a good of its own' - biocentrism (Taylor).
(C) in individual animals (both high and low) and plants but also in species, ecosystems - holism or ecocentrism (Callicott/Leopold, Rolston, III).
3. Individualism and holism.
4. Biodiversity and its value.
5. Interspecific Justice.
6. Shallow and Deep Ecology.
7. Ecofeminism
8. Vegetarianism - is it an entailed value of environmental ethics?
9. Future generations - human and non-human.
10. Environmental ethics and economics - is market rationality compatible with ecological rationality?; Values and preferences are distinct; the relevance or otherwise of cost benefit analysis.
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