PHL 450 / 500

Environmental Ethics

Class Schedule

 

 

Date                  Topic                                                                             Readings from Pine Island              Readings from Class Notes                             

 

Mon      3/29     Introduction to Environmental Ethics

 

 

Wed      3/31     How can I understand my place in nature?                     Sound of Human Longing              Momaday, A First American Views His Land

                        Views of the relation of humans to the natural world

 

                                    Earth family

 

Mon      4/5                   The legacy of the Enlightenment                              Late at Night, Listening                 Merchant, Science and Worldviews

                                                                                                                                                            Bacon, TBA

 

Wed      4/7                   [Field trips]        

           

Mon      4/12                 Christian stewardship                                            Stalking Seals                               White, Historical Roots . . .                        

                                                                                                            Finis / Genesis                            McFague, World as GodŐs Body

 

Wed      4/14                 Deep ecology                                                       Refrigerator Fungus                       Devall, Deep Ecology and Radical

                                                                                                            The Sacred and the Mundane                      Environmentalism

                                                                                                            Amazing Grace

 

Mon      4/19                 Social ecology                                                      The Moral Equivalent of Wildness   Bookchin, Social Ecology v Deep Ecology

 

Wed      4/21                 Consider: Theory to Practice

 

 

Mon      4/26     How can I understand my environmental responsibilities?          

                        Possible ethical frameworks for an environmental ethic   

                                   

                                    Utilitarianism                                                       Parables of the Rats and Mice         Mill, What Utilitarianism Is

                                                                                                                                                            Leonard et al., Cost-Benefit Analysis . . .

 

Wed      4/28                 Rights-based ethics                                               The World Depends on This          Earth Charter

                                                                                                                                                            Feinberg, The Rights of Animals

                                                                                                                                                            Midgley, Duties Concerning Islands

                                                                                                                                                            Regan, Case for Animal Rights

 

Mon      5/3                   Virtue-based ethics                                               Learning to Dance                        Hill, Ideals of Human Excellence

                                                                                                            Inheritance of Acq. Characteristics

 

Wed      5/5                   LeopoldŐs Land Ethic                                            Songs in the Night                        Leopold, The Land Ethic              

                                                                                                                                                            Callicott, Conceptual Foundations . . .

 

Mon      5/10                 An Ethic of Care                                                  This Improvisational Heart             Hogan, The Kill Hole

                                                                                                            What It Means to Love a Place       Noddings, Caring

                                                                                                            Shy Affectionate SF

                                                                                                            Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care

 

Wed      5/12                 Consider: Theory to Practice                           

 

 

 

Mon      5/17     How, then, shall I live?

                        Issues related to responsibilities in biocultural communities

 

                                    Wilderness                                                          Where Should I Live?                   Owen, Burning the Shelter

                                                Report from McDonald Forest                    Road to Cape Perpetua                  Guha, . . . Third World Critique

                                                Report from Bald Hill                                                                                Nelson, Wilderness Arguments

                                                                                                                                                            Muir, Windstorm in the Forests

 

Wed      5/19                 Restoration                                                         Blowing the Dam                         House, More than Numbers

                                                Report from the Marys River Watershed        This Will Not Come Again             Light, Ecological Restoration . . .

                                                Report from Garland Nursery

 

Mon      5/24                 Social justice                                                        A Christmas Story                                    LaDuke, Indigenous Environmental . . .

                                                Report from the Bay Street Crab Company                                                     Bullard, Justice and Env. Decision Making

Report from St. MaryŐs Parish                                                                                

Report from the OSU cow barns

 

Wed      5/26                 Corporate responsibility and personal choices:             Nuts and Grubs                          Elgin, Garden of Simplicity

                                    How, then, shall I live?                                                                                          Stone, Why ShouldnŐt Corporations . . .

                                                                                                                                                            Mies and Shiva, Introduction to

                                                Report from Coffin Butte                                                                                       Ecofeminism

                                                Report from OSU Office of Radiation Safety

                                                Report from Bi-Mart

 

Wed      6/2                   [Poster session]                                                   Night of the Razor-Clam Tide        

                                                                                                            Fire and Water

                                                                                                            Four Autumn Stories

                                                                                                            One Night of 365                                   

                                                                                                            Another World Could Start Right Here

 

 

 

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